Program Committee

William J. Bates
Senior Vice President of Real Estate, Eat N' Park Hospitality Group

Erik Bichard
Professor, University of Salford

Jennifer Bradley
Co-Director, Great Lakes Economic Initiative, The Brookings Institution

Paul Brophy
Principal, Brophy & Reilly, LLC.

Donald Carter, co-chair
Director, Remaking Cities Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Maurice Cox
Director, Tulane City Center

Hank Dittmar
Special Advisor to HRH The Prince of Wales for Global Urbanization

Wayne Feiden
Director of Planning and Development, Northampton, MA

Richard Florida
Director, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto

Geraldine Gardner
Director of Urban and Regional Policy, the German Marshall Fund of the United States

William Gilchrist
Director, Place-Based Planning, City of New Orleans, LA

Raymond Gindroz
Principal Emeritus, Urban Design Associates

Toni L. Griffin
Director, J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City, CCNY

William Hudnut, III
Executive Director, MPS in Real Estate, Georgetown University

David Lewis
Emeritus Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Vivian Loftness
Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Alan Mallach
Senior Fellow, National Housing Institute

Jerry Maldonado
Program Officer, Ford Foundation

Joel Mills, co-chair
Director, Center for Communities by Design, American Institute of Architects

John Norquist
President and CEO, The Congress for the New Urbanism

Luis Rico-Gutierrez
Dean, College of Design, Iowa State University

Tamar Shapiro
President, Center for Community Progress

Mitchell Silver
Chief Planning and Development Officer, and Director, Department of City Planning, Raleigh, NC

Erin Simmons
Director, AIA Design Assistance

Robert Shibley
Dean, School of Architecture & Planning, University of Buffalo

Harris Steinberg
Director, PennPraxis, University of Pennsylvania

Laurie Volk
Principal, Zimmerman Volk Associates