Mitchell J. Silver, AICP

President of APA

Mitchell Silver is the Chief Planning and Economic Development Officer in the City of Raleigh, North Carolina. Silver is an award-winning planner with more than 25 years of planning experience. He is nationally recognized for his leadership in the profession and his contributions to contemporary planning issues. Before coming to Raleigh in 2005 as planning director, Silver worked as policy and planning director in New York City, a principal of a New York City-based planning firm, a town manager in New Jersey and deputy planning director in Washington, D.C. He has taught graduate planning courses at Hunter College, Brooklyn College, Pratt Institute, and North Carolina State University. As planning director in Raleigh, he led the comprehensive plan update process. He is now overseeing a rewrite of the city's Development Code.

William Anderson, FAICP

APA President-Elect

Bill Anderson, San Diego, California, integrates development economics and planning, having worked in 20 states and eight countries as a partner with Economics Research Associates (now AECOM). Anderson focuses on inner cities, community planning and regional planning. He headed up San Diego's oldest planning advocacy group and chaired San Diego's Planning Commission, helping formulate the "City of Villages" strategy. Anderson served as Director of San Diego’s City Planning & Community Investment Department between 2006 and 2011, where he oversaw planning, economic development, urban form, and facilities financing. He was inducted into the AICP College of Fellows in 2006.

Anna Breinich, AICP

Director, President of AICP

Anna Breinich has more than 27 years of county, municipal, and private sector planning experience. In addition to her current position, she is an adjunct associate professor and Harrisburg Program Coordinator at Temple University Ambler for the master's degree in Community and Regional Planning Program. She is an active association member and has held numerous national, state, and local positions. Breinich received a bachelor's degree in Sociology and certificate in Social Work from Elizabethtown College, and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree from Pennsylvania State University. She currently serves on the Middle Paxton Township Planning Commission, Dauphin County.

Angela J. Vincent

Director elected from Region I

Angela Vincent has dedicated her professional career to community and environmental planning. She is currently the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Regional Director at ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI). Vincent works with the 200-plus local government members in the region to find local solutions to reducing their carbon footprint by implementing measures to reduce emissions and develop more sustainable communities. She was also a Senior Regional Planner at the Nashua Regional Planning Commission. Vincent focused her work on providing land use, environmental, and energy planning tools and resources issues for the 12-member region. 

Rodger Lentz, AICP

Director elected from Region II

Whit Blanton, FAICP

Director elected from Region III

Whit Blanton, FAICP, has focused on helping communities and regions develop their transportation and housing options for economic revitalization and livable communities. He is vice president/founding principal of Renaissance Planning Group, and received the 2011 AICP President's Award for Exemplary Practice. Within APA, he served as chair of the Transportation Planning Division and the Divisions Council, and as a member of the Legislative & Policy Committee. He led the recent adoption of new Transportation and Smart Growth Policy Guides, and the development of AICP's Advanced Specialty Certification in Transportation Planning. A native North Carolinian, Whit lives in Winter Park, Florida.

Cynthia Bowen, AICP

Director elected from Region IV

Cynthia Bowen is a director at RW Armstrong, a global consulting firm. Prior to her current position, Bowen worked as a Senior Planner at HNTB Corporation. An active APA member, Bowen has held a number of leadership positions including president of the APA Indiana Chapter and vice chair and secretary/treasurer of the Chapter Presidents Council. Bowen is a graduate of Ball State University with degrees in urban and regional planning and environmental science and design. Within her community, Bowen currently serves as a board member and Land Use Committee Chair for the Lafayette Square Area Coalition.

Kelli A. Sertich, AICP

Director elected from Region V

Kelli Sertich has more than 20 years of professional planning experience in the public and private sectors in Arizona. She currently is a Regional Area Planning Manager for the Flood Control District of Maricopa County. She is a certified planner and certified floodplain manager. A dedicated member of APA, Sertich has served the association in a variety of capacities at the local and national level. She was the Arizona APA Chapter President, held various positions on the Arizona Chapter Board, served on the National Planning Awards Jury, and is a current member of Continuing Education Committee of AICP, APA's professional institute. Sertich received an associate's degree in Applied Science from Glendale Community College, bachelor's degree in Design and Urban Planning from Arizona State University, and a master's degree from Western International University.

Jeanette Dinwiddie-Moore, FAICP

Director elected from Region VI

Jeanette Dinwiddie-Moore is Principal for Dinwiddie and Associates. She has over thirty years of planning experience, has worked on a variety of planning projects and has been a consultant to utility companies for over 20 years providing assistance with land use planning, permitting/entitlements, and environmental assessments. She has been a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in the planning profession, diligently working to advance diversity in California and nationally. Jeanette served on the California Chapter Board for over six years, helped plan several Chapter and national Diversity Summits/Panels and has served on several APA and AICP committees and Divisions.

Kara W. Drane, AICP

Director elected at Large

Kara Drane, AICP, is Planning Director for Forrest County, Mississippi. She has extensive experience as both a public sector planning administrator and as a planning consultant in Mississippi and South Carolina. She has served as Chapter President of APA Mississippi and in a number of other chapter leadership roles, during which time she and the chapter were the recipients of numerous awards for outstanding planning leadership. She has also served in key roles in various community organizations. Kara has a Bachelor’s of Science in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Southern Mississippi and has been an AICP member since 1995.

Ann C. Bagley, FAICP

Director elected at Large

As a community planner and a consultant, Ann Bagley's work has focused on comprehensive plans, park development, and training planning commissions. As a practicing planner, her experience has included work at Wilbur Smith Associates, the Centurion Consulting Group, and as an independent consultant. She has also worked in the public sector in Sugar Land and Houston, Texas, and at the regional agency, Evangeline Economic and Planning District (EEPD). She was recently appointed to her third term on the Dallas City Plan Commission.

W. Shedrick Coleman

Director elected at Large, Focused

W. Shedrick Coleman is a partner in the Cowart Coleman Group that practices architecture, land planning and interior design. He currently serves as chairman of the Chatham County– Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC) in Georgia. The planning commission is the joint city-county planning agency responsible for comprehensive planning and zoning recommendations to the member governments and for historic and natural preservation, community, transportation, and land use planning.

Angela D. Brooks, AICP

Director elected at Large, Focused

Stephen D. Villavaso, FAICP

Chapter Presidents Council Advisor to the Board

Marjorie (Marj) P. Press

Divisions Council Advisor to the Board

Marj Press' twenty year professional career as a transportation planner primarily focused on analyzing the feasibility and environmental effects of transportation infrastructure projects in the Puget Sound Region and across the U.S. Marj has been a member of APA for more than 20 years and has served on a variety of Divisions Council and Board committees and task forces, and is a founding member of APA's GALIP Division. She served on the Board of the Puget Sound Chapter of the Women's Transportation Seminar (WTS). Marj is co-owner of Skelly and the Bean, a community-based and supported Seattle restaurant, and is a Founding Member and co-owner of the Seattle restaurant Terra Plata.

Perry Shoemaker

Student Representatives Council Advisor to the Board

Perry Shoemaker attends the University of Iowa. He is a second-year graduate student, School of Urban and Regional Planning (May 2013) and the College of law (May 2014). He is a student contributor to The Journal of Corporation Law, writing on the emergence of Community Benefits Agreements as a land development tool and the benefits and drawbacks of CBA evolution. Shoemaker's community involvement includes serving as assistant coach for the Iowa City High School varsity football team, event coordinator for Citizen Lawyer Program, researcher on case law for Iowa Legal Aid, and a former Corps member of the City Year New York.