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Bloustein Online Continuing Education Program (BOCEP)
Dianne Brake
President, Regional Planning Partnership
Teaches: Alliance and Partnership Building
Dianne Brake has been involved with planning policy for more than twenty-five
years. She has been at The Partnership since 1985, and has been
the President since 1990. She has managed many of The Partnership's
major planning and research projects, particularly on transportation
and housing topics. In addition, she has conducted a number of public
outreach and dispute resolution efforts for The Partnership, and
her facilitation skills are in demand by a number of other organizations
for meetings and retreats. Besides being on the Boards of several organizations, she held a
Governor-appointed seat on the Council on Affordable Housing from
1990-1995, and the State Planning Commission, chairing the Plan
Implementation Committee from 1996 to 2001. She currently sits on
the NJDOT Transportation Trust Fund Advisory Committee and the DCA
Smart Growth Advisory Committee. In 1998, Dianne received a German
Marshall Fund Environmental Fellowship, which sent her to Europe
for a month, traveling to thirteen cities, to study land use and
transportation policies in various countries in Europe. Dianne
resides in the village of Dutch Neck in West Windsor Township, where
she is a member of the local Community Dispute Resolution Panel.
Deborah L. Brett, AICP
Principal, Deborah L. Brett & Associates
Teaches: Developer's Toolbox:
Housing Market Analysis and Developer's Toolbox: Retail Market Analysis
Deborah Brett has been a real estate consultant and market analyst since 1973. Much of her practice is devoted to housing trends, including monitoring changing demographics and consumer preferences affecting both demand and affordability. She conducts market studies and provides development recommendations for a wide range of residential and commercial properties, including affordable and market-rate apartments, condominiums, retail centers, neighborhood business districts, and downtowns. In 1992, she established an independent consulting practice in the Princeton, NJ area (Deborah L. Brett & Associates), where her clients include developers, lenders, planning and design firms, non-profits, and government agencies at all levels. Previously, she served as senior vice president and national consulting director for Real Estate Research Corporation in Chicago.
Debbie has been widely
published in real estate business periodicals. She is a regular
contributor to books published by ULI, of which she has been a member
since 1979. Debbie is also a member of the American Planning
Association, and holds the AICP designation as a certified planner.
She was elected to Lambda Alpha, the international real estate and
land economics honorary society, in 1990. She holds a master's
degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
Katherine
Daniels
Senior Planner, New York Planning Federation and independent consultant
Teaches: Planning for Farmland Protection
Katherine Daniels is the co-author of The Environmental Planning
Handbook (Planners Press). She is a Senior Planner at
the New York Planning Federation, a nonprofit organization that
promotes sound planning, land use and zoning in New York State.
In addition to her work with NYPF, Katherine provides consulting
to municipalities and nonprofit organizations. She is also an adjunct
professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the State
University of New York -- Albany.
Dawn Jourdan
Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
and Urban Planning
Texas A& M University
Teaches: Environmental Planning Law, Nuts and Bolts of Ordinance
Drafting, Youth Participation, Historic Preservation Law
Dawn Jourdan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape
Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. She
holds a B.S. in urban affairs and theatre arts from Bradley University
in Peoria, Illinois, a joint degree in urban planning and law from
the University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. in urban planning from Florida
State University. Dawn's research interests include: youth participation
in planning processes; historic preservation; and the ways in which
U.S. legal structure effect planning policy and those governed by
it. She provides legal assistance to the amicus committee of the
American Planning Association and is a faculty fellow of the TAMU's
Centers for Historic Preservation and Hazards Center. At Texas A&M,
Ms. Jourdan teaches Introduction to Urban Planning; Land Use Law
and Legislation; Historic Preservation Law; Land Development Law;
and Planning History and Theory. Prior to joining Texas A &
M, Dawn worked as an advocate for growth management in Florida on
behalf of 1000 Friends and Florida. In addition, she was employed
as an associate with the Chicago office of Holland & Knight
LLP where she assisted with the legal representation of numerous
municipal clients in the Chicagoland area.
Robert A. Kull, AICP/PP
Director of Planning Services, Environmental Resource Management,
Ewing, NJ
Teaches: Professional's Writing Studio I and II; Long-Range Planning
Robert Kull is an award-winning planner who had
his own consulting firm, Planygy and was the Regional Planning Coordinator
for the Burlington County Department of Economic Development and
Regional Planning. Before that, Bob was an Assistant Director for
Research/Comprehensive Planning at the New Jersey State Department
of Community Affairs. Bob also is a coach in The Leading Institute’s
Leading from the Middle program.
Karen Lowrie
Program Associate, National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields
Development
Teaches: Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment
Karen Lowrie, Ph.D. has served as a Program Associate for the National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment since its founding. She manages projects associated with revitalizing distressed urban neighborhoods, including building local capacity for physical and social revitalization, addressing community health concerns, and developing brownfields training for community-based organizations. She has been a co-lead researcher on past studies focusing on land use issues at nuclear weapons sites, economic impacts of brownfields sites, mass media coverage of brownfields, and conversion of brownfields to parks, among others. She is the Managing Editor of the journal Risk Analysis. She also teaches traditional and online classes in land use planning, urban neighborhood redevelopment and environmental planning and has authored numerous articles in popular and peer-reviewed publications.
Karen Phillips
New York City Planning Commissioner and independent consultant
Teaches: Strategic Planning and Implementation
As a member of the New York City Planning
Commission, Karen Phillips participates in decisions that affect
planning and zoning throughout New York City. She was appointed
to the Commission in 2002. Before joining the Commission, Ms. Phillips
was one of the founders and the CEO of the Abyssinian Development
Corporation (ADC), one of the most successful community development
organizations in New York. ADC was responsible for generating more
than $200 million in investment in the Harlem community of Manhattan.
Karen also provides consulting in community development to planning
and development firms. She is active in a number of organizations.
She is on the Coordinating Committee of New York 2050, which is
working to create a shared vision for the future of New York City.
She is also on the board of, and a trainer for, The Leading Institute,
a leadership development program for mid-career professionals in
urban planning and community development.
David
Glynn Roberts, AICP/PP, CLA
Principal and Vice President, Schoor DePalma Inc.
Teaches: Redevelopment Law and Legal Strategies
David Roberts is a licensed professional planner and certified landscape
architect in New Jersey and a registered landscape architect in
Pennsylvania and New York, with 24 years of experience in the public
and private sectors. Born and raised in New Jersey, Dave has also
been educated at the State’s University, receiving his Bachelors
of Science in Environmental Planning and Design from Cook College
in 1978, coming back to complete the Landscape Architecture Progam
in 1979 and transitioning to the Graduate School (now the Edward
J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy) from which he
graduated with a Masters Of City and Regional Planning Degree in
1981.
Dave is a Principal and Vice President with
the firm of Schoor DePalma, where he provides planning and landscape
architectural services to numerous municipalities and a variety
of private clients. He specializes in redevelopment and economic
development strategic planning and also created and serves as instructor
of the Principles of Redevelopment course that is required of redevelopment
agency commissioners and executive directors as part of the mandatory
training program of the NJDCA. He recently co-authored The Redevelopment
Handbook, A Guide for Rebuilding New Jersey’s Communities.
Dave has been active in the New Jersey Chapters
of both the American Planning Association, serving as its President
from 1993 to 1997, and the American Society of Landscape Architects,
serving as its President in 2003-04.
Carlos
Macedo Rodrigues, AICP, PP
Director of Planning, Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, Princeton Office
Teaches: Urban Design
Carlos Rodrigues is the Director of Planning for the Princeton office
of Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, where he manages a large portfolio
of private real estate development and redevelopment work, public
sector and non-profit community development clients. Previously,
he spent 10 years with New Jersey State Government -- as Acting
Director and Manager of Plan Implementation for the New Jersey Office
of Smart Growth -- where he was responsible for physical planning
and design issues statewide. An architect and a planner, Carlos has
led a multi-prong effort to elevate the role of physical planning
and design in the State through public presentations, educational
initiatives (such as the NJ Mayors Institute on Community Design),
demonstration projects and both print and virtual publications,
such as the award winning Designing New Jersey and Employment and
Community. In that role, he provided technical assistance to developers,
non-profits, local governments and other State agencies in the implementation
of the smart growth objectives of compact, mixed-use, pedestrian
and transit-oriented development.
Carlos has worked in Europe and Asia, as well as in
North America for private, civic and public entities. As an educator,
he teaches community design and planning studios at Rutgers–Bloustein
and in the Department of Landscape Architecture, as well as in the
graduate planning program at Columbia University. He also teaches
introductions to community design to housing authority and redevelopment
authority officials. He is a frequent speaker at conferences of
planning and design professionals. His work has been recognized
by the Congress for the New Urbanism, the American Planning Association,
the American Society of Landscape Architects, the New Jersey Planning
Officials and other professional organizations. He is President
of the New Jersey chapter of the American Planning Association,
Secretary of Preservation New Jersey and chair of the Princeton
Township Zoning Board of Adjustment.
L. Nicolas Ronderos
Senior Planner, Regional Plan Association
Teaches: Form-based Zoning, Transit-Oriented Development, Design
Studio
L. Nicolas Ronderos is Senior Planner for Community Development
at Regional Plan Association (RPA). His work focuses on the interrelation
between transportation, land use and real estate. Bringing together
a regional perspective with local planning knowledge and development
expertise has enabled him to fashion solutions for communities big
and small. At the center of this juncture zoning plays an important
role: it relates potential growth, actual capacity and smart development.
As land use and zoning specialist for RPA, Nicolas is charged with
analyzing municipalities existing codes to assess their design performance
and real estate implications, giving public testimony and evaluation
of zoning actions and helping shape new language to guide development.
RPA works in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Metropolitan Area
and this has allowed him to work in different types of communities
from New York City to the suburban fringe. Nicolas holds a B.A.
in Anthropology with a minor in History of Technology from Los Andes
University and a Masters of Science in Urban Policy Analysis and
Management from The New School University. He is co-chair of the
Planners for Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Committee of the American
Planning Association in the New York Metro Chapter.
Michael A. Skrebutenas
Director, Modernization Planning
and Redevelopment, Bridgeport (CT) Housing Authority (BHA).Teaches:
Affordable Housing Strategies
Michael A. Skrebutenas is responsible for the modernization program for the entire housing authority portfolio and is responsible for completion of the outstanding Father Panik federal litigation settlement agreement. To complete the agreement, the BHA needs to build approximately 300 units of housing using the remaining settlement financing and other public resources, such as tax credits.
Prior to the BHA, Mike was the Director of Replication for Common Ground Community, where he operated from offices in Hartford and New Haven, Connecticut to oversee the establishment of a CG affiliate. This department was created to enable CG's work to have the largest possible impact on the reduction of homelessness in New York City and nationally by formalizing the assistance the organization provides to other organizations seeking to re-create successful programs within their communities. As Director, Mike closed on financing and began construction on the Cornerstone Residence in Newburgh, NY, a 128-unit supportive housing project that cost $22 million.
Leonardo
Vazquez, AICP/PP
Instructor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Director, Professional Development Institute
Teaches:
Leadership Skills for Planners, Alliance and Partnership Building,
Strategic Planning and Implementation, Effective Client Relations,
Cultural Competency
Leonardo Vazquez is a licensed and credentialed planner who specializes
in community development, economic development, management and alliance
building. He also has expertise in strategic communications and
nonprofit management. He is the principal author of “Lagging
Behind: Ethnic Diversity in the Planning Profession in the APA New
York Metro Chapter Area,” and several other reports on diversity
in the profession. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified
Planners and a licensed Professional Planner in New Jersey. In addtition
to his planning work, he created and edited the Milano Nonprofit
Management Knowledge Hub and the Milano MiX, two online guides for
managers in the nonprofit sector. He also directs APA/LeadershipPlenty,
a training and coaching program for mid-career professionals in
urban planning and community development. Prior to joining Bloustein,
he was the Manager of Online Communications at the Robert J. Milano
Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at New School University.
There he developed the school’s online education initiatives,
pioneered different approaches to online learning, influenced the
use of online tools for project management, and redesigned the school’s
website.
Leo received a Bachelor of Science in Journalism
from Northwestern University in 1989 and a Master of Planning and
Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern
California in 1996. He holds a New Jersey Professional Planner license
and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Matt Wanamaker
Planner, Looney Ricks Kiss, Ltd.
Teaches: Urban Design Studio
Matt Wanamaker is an urban designer Planner at the Urban Design Firm Looney Ricks Kiss in Princeton, NJ
Matt’s areas of expertise include transit-oriented development, redevelopment, participatory planning, and town planning. He has worked on various projects throughout the United States, including Virginia, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Georgia, New Jersey and New York. He has been involved with various community and professional development programs, including those of the Urban Land Institute, Congress for New Urbanism and Habitat for Humanity. Linda B. Weber, AICP/PP
Teaches:
Urban Design Analysis
Linda Weber is a professional planner and
principal of Mosaic Planning & Design, LLC, a land use planning
and urban design consulting firm in New Jersey. Ms. Weber has over
20 years of experience in planning and design issues in both the
public and private sectors. Her area of interest and expertise is
village design, commercial corridor revitalization, sustainable
development and urban design projects at all scales of development.
Ms. Weber also has extensive experience in the areas of community
design and historic preservation and has been closely involved in
the preparation of master plans and design objectives for Transfer
of Development Right programs in several New Jersey municipalities.
Ms. Weber has received numerous planning awards for her work, including
the community design handbook, Preserving Community Character in
Hunterdon County, of which she was a co-author and project manager.
Ms. Weber has served as a member and officer of the Flemington Partnership
for Progress, a Main Street Program for downtown revitalization.
She is a past member of the Lambertville (NJ) City Planning Board
and Executive Committee member and Newsletter Editor for the American
Planning Association's Urban Design & Preservation Division.
Ms. Weber holds a Bachelor’s degree in Urban Studies from
Rutgers University and both a Master of City and Regional Planning
degree and Certificate in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania.
She is a nationally certified planner and a licensed professional
planner in the State of New Jersey.
Jennifer L. Zorn, AICP/PP
Teaches: Environmental Planning and New Jersey Planning
Law
Jennifer L. Zorn, AICP/PP,
has been providing professional environmental services to clients
for over 16 years for public and private projects throughout NJ.
These projects have included major transportation, planning, and
infrastructure initiatives, as well as residential, commercial and
industrial developments. She currently provides consulting services
and in-house training to engineering and planning firms. Jennifer
is an expert in NJ’s land use regulations and policies and
is an accomplished educator in the field of regulatory compliance.
She is a regular instructor for the NJPP exam review course held
by NJAPA. Additionally, she served as the Editor-in-Chief for the
2nd Edition of the Complete Guide to Planning in New Jersey –
A Compendium of Planning Law, Regulation and Policy. She is currently
President/Owner of Zorn Consulting, LLC located in Morristown, NJ.
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