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2009 Annual Conference Schedule
Association for Community Design:
2009 Annual Conference
June4-7 Rochester, New York
CONFERENCEVENUES
RRCDC Rochester Regional Community Design Center
1115 E. Main Street
MuCCC Muiti-Use Community Cultural Center
142 Atlantic Avenue
GEH George Eastman House
900 East Avenue
GWA Gleason Works Auditorium
1 000 University Avenue
SHRINKING CITIES: GROWING COMMUNITIES
THURSDAY,JUNE4 Afternoon MuCCC
**Conference Registration Begins at Noon**
Panel Discussion 2 - 3:30pm
Topic: Models of Cooperation: Community Design and the Public Sector
Worki ng Session 4 - 5:30pm
Topic: Community Design Centers
THURSDAY,JUNE4 Evening RRCDC
Reception 7-9pm
Rochester Regional Community Design Center 7-9pm
Live Music, Refreshments
FRIDAY, JUNE 5 IVlorning GEH
Continental Breakfast 7:45-8:30am
Panel Discussion 8:30-1 0am
Topic: Community Food Supply /Environmentai Justice
Tour lOam-Noon
The George Eastmar) House Access to the gardens and International
Museum of Photography
FRIDAY, JUNE 5 Afternoon MUCCC
Panel Discussion 2 - 3:30pm
7op/c; Shrinking Cities
Panel Discussion 4 - 5:30pm
Topic: Neighborhood Case Studies - Susan B. Anthony /Marketview
Heights
FRIDAY, JUNE 5 Evening GWA
Keynote Speaker 8pm Alan Greenberger, Planning Director, Philadelphia
SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Morning MuCCC
Participant Led Discussions 9 -11am
SATURDAY, JUNE 6 Afternoon
Tours l-4pm Marketview Heights Neighborhood
Susan B. Anthony Historic Neighborhood
SUNDAY, JUNE 7 Morning MUCCC
Worki ng Session 9:30-Noon
Topic: Strategies for meeting current challenges and opportunities
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ASPECIALTHANKSTO:
Joni Monroe
Roger Brown
Sarah Lobe
Daniel Cosentino
Peter Stam
Steve Caruso
Angela DiGiulio
JanetShipman
Alison Nordstrom
Doug Rice
Kim Zhang
Kerri Murphy
Rebecca Kanfer
Melissa Whitney
Annalena Davis
Sara Mills
Julie Eaton
Jamie Rogers
Kat Sweeny
Eileen Hansen
Elliot Dolby Shields
Maria Furgiuele
Robert Modzelzski
Sarah Wolfson
NimishaThakur
Spring Woods
Tim Raymond
Tim Burke
Carl Pultz
SUNYESFVolunteers
SPONSORS
Landmark Society
Rohrbach Brewing Company
Boulder Coffee
Multi-Use Community Cultural Center
George Eastman House
Rochester Regional Community Design Center
Gleason Works
A f~''r\ Association for
Community Design
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Alan Greenberger, Planning Director, Philadelphia
"Planning for the Post Industrial City" Initiatives from Pliiladelphia
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
+ Models of Cooperation: Community Design and the Public Sector
Transforming neighborhoods and communities collaboratively: engaging
citizens, employing creative planning and zoning techniques and utilizing
public subsidy to catalyze private development that is designed well
and public improvements that strengthen the public realm.
Panelists: Chucit Thomas, Director of Planning, City of Rochester;
Brett Garwood, Director ofDevelopment Services, City of Rochester;
David Perkes, Gulf Coast Community Design Studio; Rochelle Bell,
Environmental Planner for Monroe County; Dominic Robinson, The
Northside Collaboratory, Syracuse
+ Community Food Supply/EnvironmentalJustice
A central challenge presented in contemporary communities is making
it possible to access affordable, healthy and environmentally responsible
food every neighborhood, regardless of wealth. This condition profoundly
effects public health and quality of life. Panelists will discuss projects
andinitiativeswhichhavebeensuccessfully implemented to make food
available through community agriculture as well as retail channels
and discuss ideas about strategies that might be tried,
Presentation Infill Philadelphia: Food Access
Stakeholders collaborate to explore design concepts to address food
access and develop retail on urban infill sites.
Panelists: Elizabeth Miller, Executive Director, Community Design
Collaborative, Philadelphia; Matthew Potteiger, Professor of Landscape
Architecture, ESF Syracuse University; Diane Picard, iVlassachusetts
Avenue Project. Buffalo
Res ponders: Wade Norwood, Fingerlakes Health Systems Agency;
Christine Johnson, Director, GRUB (Greater Rochester Urban Bounty) ;
Eleanor Coleman, Director ofYouth and Family Services, SWAN; Tom
Ferr^ro, Fnodlink
+ Shriniiing Cities
Considering creative opportunities for development of vacant land
and underutilized buildings in core areas and cities with decreasing
population including a widearray of non-traditional land uses and
temporary use strategies that activate, change and then disappear.
Panelists: Anne-Marie Lubenau,AIA,ExecutiveDirector, Community
Design Center of Pittsburgh (CDCPj; Terry Schwarz, Senior Planner,
Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative; Joan Iverson Nassauer, Professor
of Landscape Architecture, University of Michigan
+ NeighborhoodCaseStuiSes-SusanB.Anthon//Mat1<etviewHeights
The stories of ongoing revitalization efforts in two unique urban neighborhoods
flanking Rochester's Downtown looking attheareas'histories and physical
development through the 19th and 20th Centuries, issues of changing
population and demographics and responses to today's chall^iges.
Panelists: Dawn Noto, Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood Association;
Pamela Reese-Smith, Community Outreach Coordinator, Pathstone
Corporation; Francisco Rivera, Marketview Heights Neighborhood Association;
Judy Douglas, Property Manager, Pathstone Corporation; Rich Holowka,
Marketview Heights Resident; Martin Pedraza, Marketview Heights
Resident; Katie Comeau, Landmark Society of Western New York;
Dan Hoffman, Susan B Anthony Resident,' Bill Morse, President, Morse Lumber
WORKING SESSIONS
+ Community Design Centers
Exploring the inner workings and dynamics of these organizations;
interactions and partnerships, finances, staff issues, board
management and other important aspects of their operation
and influence.
Facilitator Joe Fama, Executive Director, Troy Architectural
Program (TAP); Peter Aeschbacher, Department of Architecture,
Penn State University
+ Strategies for meeting current challenges and opportunities
Beginning with a brainstorming session focusing on challenges
facing community design centers as well as the communities
theyserve, we will break into small discussion groups by region,
the services offered, and areas of interest so that people can
work on strategies with others in the same context.
PARTICIPANT LED DISCUSSIONS
Conference participants will lead small group discussions
covering a rangeof issues which those with an interest in
Community Design face on a regular basis, Sessions will
include ways in which one design center has been effective
with decreasing funding sources; another faces challenges
working with small towns, A number of topics will allow us to
think through the challenges and opportunities for commu-
nity design work.
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FEATURED EXHIBITS INTHE RRCDC DESIGN GALLERY:
"Healthy and Happy Cities: Urban Design with Nature"- Case studies from
Doug Farr's book Sustainable Urbanism
"Food is Landscape" Projects for a Sustainable Food System - an i nstallation of
the work of Landscape Architecture students from the College of Environmental
Design, SUNY, Syracuse
FEATURED EXHIBITS AT GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE
"Not a Cornfield" on display in Entrance Gallery of the museum
*"New Topographies"
^"Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in the Photograph as Art"
* Exhibit installation in progress. Sign up for select viewing from the George
Eastman House archives with Curator of Photography Alison Nordstrom at the
ACD 2009 Annual Conference registration desk
Peter Aeschbacher is an assistant professor at the Pennsyl-
vania State University, where he holds a joint appointriient in the
Department of Landscape Architecture and the Department of
Architecture. His research includes community design; public
scholarship; visual methods; and small parks and urban open
spaces. He is also involved with Penn State's Hamer Center for
Community Design.
Priortomovingtoacademia,Peterwas a practicing community designer and activ-
ist. He was an inaugural recipient ofthe Fredrick P Rose Architectural Fellowship,
andworkedwith the Los Angeles Community Design Center. AttheLACDC, Peter
was the designer of architectural projects including housing, community centers,
gardens, childcare facilities and commercial improvements. While in Los Angeles,
Peterwas also involved incommunity-basedinitiatives, including the struggle for
and development ofthe Cornfields State Park, a 42-acre former railyard adjacent
to downtown Los Angeles; the Los Angeles Bicycle Coalition; and the Los Angeles
Community Garden Council, He has undertaken numerous community-based
design/build projects such as community gardens and has facilitated a number
of successful university/comm unity partnerships, He is a founding member and
current board member of CityWorksLA. Peter holds graduate degrees in both
Architecture and Urban Planning from UCLA.
Jody Beck is the Vice President ofthe Association for Community Design. Along
with being a registered architect and returned PeaceCorpsVolunteer, heisalsoa
PhD Candidate in Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. The
interplay between politics and landscape is atthecoreof his academic interests
and his dissertation is focused on early twentieth century American landscape
architecture and city planning. These interests continue beyond his academic work
and have extended over the last several years into working with community design
organizations atthe local and national level as well as engaging issues of design
and affordable housing.
Joni Monroe, AIA, is one ofthe founding members ofthe RRCDC and has served
as the Executive Director since 2003. Under her leadership the RRCDC has extended
its outreach to the nine county Greater Rochester Region as the area's only non-
profit community-driven advocate for planning and design ofthe built environ-
ment offering technical assistance, facilitation and educational programs. Joni, who
holds Masters degrees in Architecture from Yale University, Historic Preservation
from Columbia University and Education from the University of Rochester, is com-
mitted to providing community connections to design and planning resources.
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Katie Cornea U isthe Director of Preservation Services for
the Landmark Society of Western New York, where she has
worked since 2001. Among other projects at the Landmark So-
I ,"' jj ciety, Comeau has been involved in revitalization efforts in the
^^^. £^^ Susan B. Anthony Neighborhood, most recently as coordinator
^^Hnk i^^^l of an initiative to bring architectural services and rehabilitation
grants to residents of this important historic district. She also
speaks and writes on topics including architecture of the recent past susta inability
and historic preservation, and Rochester's Olmsted parks system.
Before returning to the Rochester area where she grew up, Comeau worked at
a historic preservation consulting firm in Washington, D.C., where her projects
included historic structures reports. Section 1 05 compliance projects. National
Register nominations, and other cultural resource documentation projects. She
has a bachelor's degree in Humanities from Yale University and a master's degree in
Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dan Hoffman has been a resident of the Susan B. Anthony Preservation District
forover20years. Dan served for several years as President of the Susan B.Anthony
Neighborhood Association and held the Sector 3 Chair Position in which he worked
with seven neighborhoods. Dan Hoffman and his wife Barbara have been influen-
tial in the revitalization efforts seen today in the Preservation District
William Morse is the President of iVlorse Lumber, located at 340 W iVlain St in the
Susan B. Anthony neighborhood. His family has lived, owned and operated the
Rochester lumber company in the neighborhood since 1853. iVlorse has a special
interest intheneighborhood, as his grandmother was an acquaintance of Susan B.
Anthony, Morse has been guest speaker at the Susan B. Anthony House Luncheon
Series and is on the Board of Directors at the Genesee Country Museum.
Joe Fama is the Executive Director ofTAR Inc., a community
design and development center established in 1969, which
provides design and planning services primarily in Troy and in
other municipalities in New York's Capital Region. As Executive
Director since 1972, Fama supervises and participates in all
phases ofTAP's work. His work at TAP keeps him interested and
involved in the Troy Community.
His recent activities include serving as a board member for the ARK Charter School,
The Rice Building, Inc., and Historic Troy 2020 for which he is also the Chief Operat-
ing Officer. Fama was also a board member for the New York State Department of
State Technical Subcommittees on revision of the State Energy Code, Appendix K
of the Building Code (for Existing Buildings) and the adoption of the International
Existing Buildings Code.
iVlr, Fama, earned degrees in Building Sciences and Architecture from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, While at RPI he was the first recipient of the Norman Waxman
Service Award in 1970and the winner of the A, I. A, Student Award in 1971. He was
a 2008Winner of the Edward H.Pattison Citizenship Award presented by the Rens-
selaer County Regional Chamber of Commerce.
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ABOUTTHE SPEAKERS
Alan Greenberger is the Executive Director of the Philadel-
phia City Planning Commission and chairs the Philadelphia
Zoning Code Commission. His current work at the Planning
Commission and with UPenn City Planning graduate students
is focused on outlining long-term growth strategy for Philadel-
phia titled 'Planning for the Post-Industrial City,' Growth strat-
egy issues such as now-fallow land use, connections between
communities and a city's natural resources, and understanding current and future
economic drivers are applicableto smaller formerly industrial cities such as those
throughout the East and Midwest,
Prior to his 2008 appointment to the Planning Commission Greenberger was part-
ner of Mitchell/Giurgola Architects and lead designer for a variety of projects, such
as the America on Wheels Museum, iVlann Center for the Performing Arts iVlaster
Plan and Pavilions and the Centennial District Master Plan, He also co-founded and
chaired the Design Advocacy Group of Philadelphia, a volunteer organization made
up of architects, city planners and developers which works toward planning reform
in Philadelphia.
Greenberger, a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Architecture alumnus, is
also a faculty member of the Department of Architecture at Drexel University and
the Department ofCity and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania.
^^^P"^"^^ ChuckThoma^ the Director ofPlanningforthe City of
^HEr^,^^^ Rochester, has more than 30 years experience in planning, zon-
" " f ing, real estate development, HUD Community Developments
^1^^^ programs, Neighborhood Reinvestment programs, state fund-
^H^B^Hi ing agencies and private fund raising. His duties in Rochester
^flP^^ include comprehensive land use and strategic planning, GIS
and data systems management waterfront development, and
community plan development He served as Deputy Director of Planning for the
City of Buffalo from 1998 through May 2006. Between 1996 and 2008 he received
lONewYorkUpstateAmericanPlanning Association Chapter Awards, in 2005 the
APA National Award for best plan, and the 2009 CNU National Award for compre-
hensive planning.
Thomas is a graduateoftheStateUniversity ofNewYorkatBuffalo. Heisa member
of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the Western New York Section of
the American Planning Association and past member of the Congress for the New
Urbanism and ULI Urban Land Institute.
Bret Garwood is the Director of the Bureau of Housing and Project Development
for the City of Rochester where he oversees the planning and implementation of
the City's housing, real estate, demolition and homeownership functions. Begin-
ning in July, he will oversee the Bureau of Business and Housing Development for
the City.
His extensive experience in community development research and program
management includes serving as the Associate Director of the Rochester's Housing
Council, Executive Officer of the Ithaca Board of Realtors, Director of Housing Servic-
es for Tompkins Community Action in Ithaca, and a private consultant He holds a
B.A. in Architecture from Lehigh University and a M.S. in City and Regional Planning
from Cornell University.
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David Perkes, an architect and Associate Professor for Mis-
sissippi State University, is the founding director of the Gulf
Coast Community Design Studio, a professional outreach pro-
gram of the College of Architecture, Art + Design. Established
soon after Hurricane Katrina, the studio provides planning and
architectural design support to Mississippi Gulf Coast com-
munities and non-profits, The design studio works closely with
the East Biloxi Coordination and Relief Center and has assisted in the renovation of
hundreds of damaged homes and over fifty new house projects in East Biloxi which,
in 2007, were awarded an HonorCitationfrom the Gulf States Region AIA.
Previously, Perkes was the director of the Jackson Community Design Center and
taught in the School of Architecture's fifth year program in Jackson, Mississippi.
Under his leadership the Design Center assisted many community organizations
and received numerous national and local awards, including the Mississippi AIA
Honor Award for the Boys and Girls Club Camp Pavilion, A sustainable Habitat for
Humanity house built in Jackson was selected by the "Show Your Green"recogni-
tion program and featured on the AIA Design Advisor. Perkes was selected as the
designer from Mississippi for the January 2004 issue of International Design,
David has a Master of Environmental Design degree from Yale School of Architecture,
a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Utah, and a Bachelor of Science
degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Utah State University. In 2004
David was awarded a LoebFellowshipfrom the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Rochelle Bell has been an Environmental Planner at the
Monroe County Department of Planning & Development for
almosttenyearsworking to organize a Land Use Decision-
Making Training Program for municipal officials and staff, coor-
dinate with the County Department of Health to plan matters
impacting public health, manage a wetland mitigation project,
conduct environmental reviews for Community Development
projects, and review land use developments with potential county -wide impacts.
She is actively involved in organizations such as the Monroe County Green Building
Design Review Team, BlackCreekWatershed Coalition, and Public Health and Safety
Technical Advisory Committee.
Bell has worked as a hydrogeologist for environmental consulting firms in Oregon,
Washington and Iowa and forthe U.S. Geological Surveyand the U,S, Bureau of
Land Management in California and Colorado. She also taught in a community
college in Eugene, Oregon.
Bell earned her B.S. degree in Geology from Colorado State University and her Mas-
ters in Earth Science and Resources from the University of California at Davis,
Dominic Robinson co-founded "The NorthsideCollabo-
ratory"in 2007, a program for innovative and collaborative
community development in the Northside neighborhood in
Syracuse, NY, In 2008 Dominic began work with the Metropoli-
tan Development Association (MDA) and St. Joseph's Hospital
in coordinating the revitalization efforts in the Prospect Hill
neighborhood. He is working to catalyze community and eco-
nomic development and large scale investment within Syracuse's Northside by cre-
ating programs in business development and retention, a weatherization training
program for neighborhood residents, neighborhood communications strategies
residents want to play a role in the transformation oftheir neighborhoods and will
engagein the process if they believe there will be change. MHCAP installed four
new community gardens in the neighborhood Marketview Heights Neighborhood.
In 2009 the 325 North Union Street garden won first Place in the Mayor's garden
contest. Engaging residents and giving them a voice has made the Collective Ac-
tion Project a major success.
In 2007 Reese Smith graduated from the University of Rochester. From May 2005
until July 2007 Pamela was Executive Director for the Flower City Soccer League,
an inner city soccer program for disadvantaged youth many of whom reside in the
Marketview Heights Community. In July 2008 Rochester's Mayor Duffy presented
Pamela with an award for Excellence In Service.
Francisco Rivera, the Executive Director of Marketview
Heights Association, has worked with the community in vari-
ous capacities since 1979 including serving as the Director of
StudentServicesattheformer Clara Mohammed School on
North Street and Associate Director of Rochesterians Against
Illegal Narcotics. Rivera havelSyears experience in non-profit
organizational management and community organizing and
12 years experience in housing rehabilitation, As Executive Director of Marketview
Heights Association Rivera oversee a number of programs and initiatives aimed at
improving housing conditions and promoting homeownership in the area. Recent
projects include four housing rehabilitation grant programs, two acquisition/rehab
programs for first-time homebuyers, comprehensive housing counseling services
for new and existing homeowners, foreclosure prevention counseling and services
program, and real estate sales and services.
Judy Douglas, a Property Manager at PathStone Manage-
ment Corporation, manages 94 affordable housing rental
units in the Marketview Heights Neighborhood. Previously
Douglas served on Housing Opportunities Board of Direc-
tors for 20 years and as the Executive Director of Marketview
Heights Community Association from 1984-1999, She has
accomplished numerous development projects throughout
the Marketview Heights Neighborhood including creating Rochester's first infill
project on the corner of Ontario and North Union Street, first HUD Neighborhood
development Demonstration Project on 55-57 and 59-51 Woodward Street, and
first Affordable Housing Project in 1986 located on Weld Street.
Rich Holowka is a lifelong resident of Marketview Heights.
Martin Pedraza has lived in Rochester's Marketview
Heights most of his life. Inspired by his father who was a
community activist and organizer of IBERO, Pedraza has
been involved inthecommunitysincehewas a young man.
Pedraza is interested in greening the neighborhood and has
taken it upon himself to find areas where trees can be planted
in the community, Pedraza loves his community and the
community appreciates his dedication and hard work.
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Terry Schwarz is the senior planner at Kent State University's
Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC), a coriimunity
service organization with a professional staff of designers
committed to improving the quality of urban places through
technical design assistance, research and advocacy. Supported
by the Ohio Board of Regents'Urban University Program and
the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent
State University, the CUDC offers architectural and urban design expertise to urban
communities, design professionals, and the planning and public policy work of
the state universities in Akron, Youngstown and Cleveland. Schwarz's work at the
CUDC includes neighborhood and campus planning, commercial and residential
design guidelines, stormwater management and green infrastructure strategies. In
2005 she launched the CUDC's Shrinking Cities Institute in 2005 in an effort to un-
derstand and address the implications of population decline and large-scale urban
vacancy in Northeast Ohio,
She teaches the graduate design curriculum for the KSU College of Architecture
and Environmental Design, She has a Bachelor's degree in English from the Illinois
Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in City and Regional Planning from
Cornell University,
Joan Iverson Nassauer A Fellow of the American Society
ofLandscape Architects and the Council of Educators in Land-
scape Architecture, Nassauer was named Landscape Ecology
Scholar by the International Association ofLandscape Ecology
in 2007 and Distinguished Practitioner ofLandscapeEcologyin
the US in 1998. Her investigation of public acceptance and cul-
tural sustainability of ecological design was reported in over SO
referenced papers and 20 books and monographs and received numerous awards.
This work offers strategies for basing ecological design on strong science, interdis-
ciplinary collaboration and creative engagement with policy. Currently Nassauer is
applying her approach to brownfields, vacant property and urban sprawl,
Nassauer is a professor ofLandscape Architecture at the University of Michigan's
School of Natural Resources & Environment. She earned her M. LA in Landscape
Architecture from Iowa State University and her B.L.A. in Landscape Architecture
from the University of Minnesota.
Dawn NotO has been a resident of the Susan B. Anthony
neighborhood in Rochester for close to six years. She had been
President of the Susan B Anthony Neighborhood Association
for the past 3 years and iscurrentlyCo-ChairofSector S.She
enjoys working with neighbors, local business owners and city
officials to continue the revitalization of the neighborhood.
Dawn Noto and her husband Mike both enjoy working on their
Circa 1850 home in the neighborhood.
Pamela Reese Smith, the Community Project Manager for
Rochester's Marketview Heights Collective Action Project (MH-
CAP), holds a Bachelors degree in Studio Arts with a wealth of
expertise in history and anthropology. Reese Smith has been a
community organizer for 30 years working to revitalize and re-
organize inner city neighborhoods. She believes that inner city
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and tools, and public art projects. He has assisted in several housing development
projects and is currently working to bring a hotel to the neighborhood.
Robinson attended Washington University in St, Louis where he helped form "City
Bridges"a group dedicated to helping link university resources to community or-
ganizations. While perusing a master's degree in Urban Studies at Loyola University
Chicago, he served as a fellow in Loyola's "Center for Urban Research and Learning"
(CURL), a university -based research center dedicated to community-driven, collab-
orative research. In Chicago Robinson also worked with a non-profit organization
that provided athletic, academic and enrichment programming to children living
in the Cabrini Green public housing projects. In 2004 Robinson worked as an Ame-
ricorpsVolunteerasteacher, football coach and campus minister at a Catholic high
school, which reached out to predominantly low -income residents of Chicago's
south side.
^H^^l Elizabeth M iller is the Executive Director of the Community
/j^^^^^ Design Collaborative which created Infill Philadelphia, a Food
■'^ ' '^^^ Access program which brings together design practitioners,
community development experts, policymakers, grocery store
operators, funders, and neighborhood leaders to explore how
design can address fresh food access in low- and moderate-
income urban communities, The resulting design concepts
use physical assets in older urban neighborhoods creatively: creating a fresh food
market in a storefrontbuilding, reusing a warehouse for a co-op that can grow in
phases, and designing a new supermarket for a challenging urban site.
A skilled nonprofit manager. Miller developed her expertise in public policy, com-
munity development, and historicpreservation. In addition to her work with the
Community Design Collaborative of Philadelphia she serves on the Design Advo-
cacy Group (DAG) Steering Committee and the City Parks Association Board. Miller
holds a Masters in Government Administration from the Pels School of Government
at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in the Growth and Structure of Cities
from Bryn Mawr College.
Matthew Potteiger is a professor of Landscape Architecture
in the College of Environmental Design at SUNY, Syracuse. His
teaching, research and practice focus on linking food systems
tocommunitydesign as a means of creating vital productive
urban spaces, building community capacity, and activating
public space. The work of students in his "food studio"has
helped to reveal critical issues and create a framework for
coordinated food system planning as well as directly influencing food access by
helping to establish a farmers market on Syracuse's eastside and building a com-
munity garden with the refugee community. He is one of the founding members of
Syracuse Grows, a community -based network working to cultivate equitable local
food production, distribution and consumption through community gardening
and urban agriculture.
He recently received a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in
the Fine Arts to supported travel to Brazil, Japan and North American cities to
study emerging models of urban agriculture. His book. Landscape Narratives:
Design Practices for Telling Stories, received an ASLA merit award.
Diane Picard is the Executive Director for the Massachusetts
Avenue Project on "Building the local community through
food, urban farming, and entrepreneurship,"in Buffalo, New
York. Currently, she is also the Director of the Growing Green
Project. Started in 2003, this program works with local low-
income, at-risk youth in Buffalo, teaching them to grow food
organically and build community through food, It has recently
developed a peer education initiative in which youth run after school workshops
on sustainable urban agriculture. At the MAP, youth actively participate in trans-
forming their community and becoming agents of social change through food and
sustainable urban farming.
Picard received her Masters of Social Work from Boston University, where she spe-
cialized in Program Planning and Community Organizing, She has an undergradu-
ate degree in International Agriculture and Development from Cornell University,
which enabled her to teach agriculture and art at a rural secondary school in Botswana,
where she served in the Peace Corps from 1986-1988. Picard is devoted to grass-
roots community-building as a means of making positive and lasting social change.
Wade Norwood is the Director of Community Engage-
ment for the Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency (FLHSA), a
non-profit community health planning agency that promotes
public health in the Finger Lakes region through research,
advocacy and community engagement. With the support of
community leaders, health care providers, consumers, insur-
ers and government, the FLHSA strives to ensure accessible,
affordable quality healthcare for the region's entire population. Norwood works
to increase access to health services and to eliminate race- and ethnicity-related
disparities in health status, FLHSA also connects community health planning to
public policy advocacy. The fourteen community coalitions that are supported by
the FLHSA provide a direct and powerful channel through which the voice of com-
munity is engaged in the health care dialogue.
Norwood has twenty years of elected and appointed government service. He
created the City of Rochester's highly regarded Police Citizen Review Board, the
nationally recognized "Neighbors Building Neighbors" planning process, city hom-
eownership and neighborhood revitalization programs, the legislative guide for the
City's long-range 2010 strategic plan; and supervised the Rochester City Council's
review of the City's Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Code. A lecturer on public
affairs, Norwood is also an active volunteer. Norwood is a native Rochesterian and a
graduateoftheUniversity of Rochester with a degree in Political Science.
Christine Johnson works with Greater Rochester Urban Bounty (GRUB), Since
1999, GRUB, located in Northeast Rochester on Clifford Avenue, has been farming
and selling produce organically grown in Rochester's vacant lots and has a store
front in the Rochester Public Market.
Eleanor Coleman is the Director of Youth and Family
Services at the SouthWest Area Neighborhood Association,
Inc, (SWAN) where she identifies services for and facilitates
coordination of school/community Student & Family Sup-
port Center and has designed and implemented community
outreach programsforallagegroups, such as Building Blocks,
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a collaboration between youth and adults to plan and implement community im-
provement projects. Inpartnershipwith the University of Rochester and Rochester
Fatherhood Resource Initiative, Coleman helped create Healthy Home, a hands-on
museum used to teach community members about lead poisoning and other
household toxins. Most recently her work at SWAN included the establishment of a
Youth Entrepreneur Business in which youth operate greenhouses; the promotion
of Grow Boxes which eliminate toxic soil, conserve water, limit/eliminate the need
for pesticides; and overseeing a Garden Survey for the Rochester Community Asset
Mapping database system which will be used to establish a local Food Security
System. Coleman has been recognized by both the city and the county for her com-
munity service and was the winner of the 2000 Sector 4 "Community Development
Award,"
Tom Ferraro is the Founder and Executive Director of Food-
link, serving Greater Rochester and the Genesee Valley /Finger
Lakes Region for over 29 years. Under his direction Foodlink
has become a 550-member organization delivering more than
7.5 million pounds offood products annually to area soup
kitchens, food pantries, shelters, group homes and senior cen-
ters ina 10-county area, Under Ferraro's leadership Foodlink
has moved beyond the symptom ofhunger by working toward solutions of the
problem indudingjobtraining, launching a Fulfillment Center to spur economic
development, providing hot meals to children at 39 after-school Kids Cafes, con-
ducting emergency provider training to provide holistic services to those in need
and spearheading community garden/urban farming projects to foster community
food security.
Ferrarowason the original America's Second Harvest Board of Directors to develop
the concept offood banking nationally and assisted in the formation of the other
seven New York State food banks, Ferraro is also the recipient of numerous distin-
guished community awards including the Mayor's Charles S. Crimi Pax Humana
Award from theCity of Rochester in 2000, Rochester Urban League Community
Leadership Award for Golden Service, and the Greater Rochester Community of
Churches Metropolitan Faith -In -Action Award.
Anne-Marie Lubenau is the President & CEO of the Com-
munity Design Center of Pittsburgh (CDCP) which she joined
in 1 998. Lubenau's vision and leadership as an architect and
project manager and ardent commitment to civic engagement
enabled the CDCP to successfully expanded its reach within
the communities, businesses and homeowners of Pittsburgh
through innovative programming and design resources.
Lubenau is passionate about providing access to planning and design resources
to the Pittsburgh region. She is the chair of the Pittsburgh Civic Design Coalition,
a member of the City of Pittsburgh's Contextual Design Advisory Panel, and
a member of the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Institute of Architects,
Lubenau regularly contributes to regional and national community planning
forums. She has served on the board ofdirectorsofthe Association for Commu-
nity Design since 2004, Additionally, she served asanadjunctfaculty memberof
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Architecture where she received her degree
and taught classes on the built environment through the Allegheny Intermediate
Unitand the University of Pittsburgh. She also served as an educational consultant
to Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation.
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