EngagingCities

Adam Davies Before founding Walkonomics.com, Adam Davies spent over 6 years working to improve the walkability, bikeability and sustainability of streets, neighbourhoods and cities in the UK, Europe and Africa.... Read More >>	Alex Dodds Online Communications Manager Alex Dodds is Smart Growth America’s Online Communications Manager. She joins the team after several years in campaign communications, most recently running online communications and media... Read More >>	Alison Kadlec Vice President and Director of the Center for Advances in Public Engagement Alison Kadlec works on the management and implementation of Public Agenda's public engagement and opinion research projects, and is active in the development and evaluation of research tools and... Read More >>
Allegra Williams Neighborhood Planner, Department of Planning and Development, The City of Lowell, MA Allegra Williams is Neighborhood Planner for the City of Lowell. In this capacity, she develops short and long-range strategies to enhance the quality of life in Lowell’s neighborhoods and... Read More >>	Anita Glesta Artist Anita Glesta’s work has been installed in public spaces as well as galleries, museums, and non-profit spaces in New York and internationally. As an artist in the public, Anita... Read More >>	Bernadette Samson Social Media Specialist Bernadette Samson is a Social Media Superhero at ResetSanFrancisco. When not resetting San Francisco, she blogs about music at BoxSpeakerMusicBlog and is on the never-ending search for the perfect... Read More >>
Carla Wheeler writer at Esri Carla Wheeler is a marketing writer at Esri. Before focusing on writing about geographic information systems, she was a newspaper journalist in Southern California covering a variety of assignments... Read More >>	Chiara Camponeschi. Chiara works at the intersection of interdisciplinary research, social innovation and urban sustainability. Her latest project, The Enabling City, can be found online at www.enablingcity.com. Read More >>	Chris Berthelsen Researcher; Usable Cities, Creative Climate, Play, Happiness, and Control Chris Berthelsen does ‘stuff’ in Think + Research + Make in topics around human-scale usable cities, hand made play and the child-scale, and creative climate in organizations. He holds... Read More >>
Chris Haller Principal at Urban Interactive Studio Chris Haller heads up Urban Interactive Studio (UIS), a technology consulting firm specializing in web and mobile solutions for urban planning agencies and firms. He's the founder of... Read More >>	Christine McLaren Freelance Journalist Investigating Solutions to Urban Issues Christine McLaren is a freelance journalist who investigates solutions to urban problems. Her writing and research explores how the shape of our cities impacts the lives and behavior of those... Read More >>	Claudia Paraschiv Trained as an architect in Los Angeles, Claudia recently completed her graduate studies in urbanism at MIT, for which she prepared a thesis on Los Angeles’ Public Space as understood through... Read More >>
David Bollier Independent Scholar, Author and Activist David Bollier is an independent scholar, author and activist who studies the commons as a new paradigm of economics and political culture. He blogs at www.Bollier.org and his posts are licensed under... Read More >>	David Eade Co-Founder & Coordinator at Government 2.0 in Queensland Community of Practice, Product Manager at Objective Corporation David is an experienced Product Manager who is passionate about applying innovative technology to real-world problems and, in doing so, provide simple, agile and elegant products that people... Read More >>	David Leonard AICP, ASLA Senior Associate with KTU+A Planning and Landscape Architecture David is a Senior Associate with KTU+A Planning and Landscape Architecture, managing projects and workflow in federal planning and resource management services. He specializes in habitat planning and... Read More >>
Deborah Boyer Project Manager, Azavea & PhillyTreeMap Deborah Boyer is a project manager at Azavea and also serves as the project manager for PhillyTreeMap and Azavea’s other urban forestry initiatives. Read More >>	Elaine R. Clisham Communications and Outreach Associate Elaine Clishamis a communications and outreach associate at New Jersey Future, a statewide smart-growth policy research organization. Prior to joining the organization in March 2011 she spent more... Read More >>	Geoff Wilson President, International Association for Public Participation Geoff Wilson is President of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) and is in his third year as chair of IAP2’s Core Values Awards. He works for Capital Health in Halifax... Read More >>
Ivan Motley Founder, .id Ivan founded .id in 1997 after a long career in housing and infrastructure policy in both the public and private sector and an academic background in geography. Ivan believes making demographic... Read More >>	Jacob Urup Nielsen Partnerships and Projects Manager at British Council Jacob is a project manager with British Council and has worked with the Creative Cities project and Future City Game during the past 3 years. You can follow him on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jurup and... Read More >>	James Larmour- Reid Director, Planisphere James Larmour-Reid is a Director of Planisphere, one of the most awarded urban planning and design consultancies in the State of Victoria, Australia. An urban planner by profession, James is co-... Read More >>
James Rojas Urban Planner, Community Activist, Founder at Latino Urban Forum James Rojas is an urban planner, community activist, and artist. He is one of the few nationally recognized urban planners to examine U.S. Latino cultural influences on urban planning/design. ... Read More >>	Janelle Noble Director of Marketing at Brightidea As Director of Marketing at Brightidea, Inc. Janelle manages all in-bound marketing for the leading cloud-based innovation management software provider. A brand advocate, business defender, and... Read More >>	Jez Hall Organisational and community development consultant and facilitator Jez Hall is an associate of the UK based PB Unit. Jez Hall has worked on promoting Participatory Budgeting (PB) since 2000 when he visited Porto Alegre as a community activist. After developing some... Read More >>

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