Our award-winning instructional program is the recipient of the Federal Planning Division of the American Planning Association award as the Outstanding Federal Planning Program of 2009 and the Center for Environmental Innovation and Leadership (CEIL) 2011 “Workforce Development Through Training Award.” Andrea Wohlfeld Kuhn, AICP, LEED Green Associate, is a Senior Planner with the Installation Support Community at Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (HQUSACE) in Washington, D.C. She has over 30 years of experience in federal and local land use planning and real estate policy, with an emphasis on intergovernmental coordination, sustainable planning, socioeconomic impacts, community liaison, and environmental analysis. Prior to this position, she served for three years as the Deputy for the Real Estate Community of Practice at HQUSACE where she managed Army and Federal real estate programs, including development of the Corps’ asset management program to meet the President’s Management Agenda. Prior to joining the Corps, Ms. Kuhn was the Evaluation Team Leader at the U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Office of Real Property, where she led federal interagency working groups in the analysis of real property issues. She was accepted into GSA’s Advanced Leadership Development Program, and considers her developmental assignment with Deutsche Post Real Estate in Bonn, Germany as one of the highlights of her career. Ms. Kuhn started her federal career with the Navy as a Presidential Management Intern and then served as the Navy’s Special Assistant for Socioeconomics. She focused on planning impacts to local communities, including base closure and land use compatibility issues. Experience at the local level was gained during her tenure as a Community Planner for Fairfax County, Virginia. Ms. Kuhn was elected Chair of the Federal Planning Division of the American Planning Association in 2003. She holds a Master of Public Administration with a concentration in Urban Planning from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Virginia.

Jill A. Schreifer, Instructor. Chief Operating Officer and Planner, The Urban Collaborative, LLC. Ms. Schreifer has nearly 15 years of experience in military planning, policy, education, and operations. She has served as an engineer, programmer, designer, and author for area development plans and associated studies for all branches of the U.S. military. She has worked extensively within the CONUS and military installations worldwide, and is a leading member of a team whose designs and collaborative design processes are setting a new standard for military planning. Her expertise in this area has made her an instrumental member of the team responsible for the revision of the Army’s master planning regulation (AR 210-20) and the DOD’s Unified Facilities Criteria for Master Planning. In addition, she has served on several planning projects that have received numerous national awards including the Outstanding Federal Planning Project from the American Planning Association Federal Planning Division (APA FPD) for the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Installation Development Plan (2009), and an Outstanding Sustainable Planning Award from the for the Historic Downtown Area Development Plan (Fort Lewis, Washington, 2008). Two Outstanding Area Development Plan awards from the APA FPD also recognized her work for the Aviano Air Base A1 Master Plan (Aviano, Italy, 2007) and Kunsan AB, Korea (2003). Ms. Schreifer also has extensive experience as an instructor. She taught for the U.S. Air Force at Officer Training School, where she was recognized as Officer Training School’s Instructor of the Year. She teaches and creates curriculum for multiple courses for the Department of Defense’s Master Planning Institute, including Master Planning Principles, Master Planning Practices, Advanced Master Planning, Visualization Techniques, and Applied Skills, and on-site practicums world-wide. Ms. Schreifer holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree with distinction from Duke University, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Emory University, which she attended as a Woodruff Fellow.

Tricia L. Kessler, Instructor. Planner, The Urban Collaborative, LLC. Ms. Kessler has over 20 years experience in military planning operations. As an officer in the US Air Force, she led planning, programming and design organizations at multiple installations, and participated in more than 40 design and planning projects at military installations worldwide. She was an assistant professor of architecture and planning at the Air Force Institute of Technology for more than a decade, and teaches several courses for the Department of Defense’s Master Planning Institute, including Advanced Master Planning, Master Planning Practices and Master Planning Applied Skills. Ms. Kessler has played an integral role on several planning projects that have received national recognition, including the Outstanding Federal Planning Project from the American Planning Association Federal Planning Division (APA FPD) for the Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Installation Development Plan (2009), and an Outstanding Sustainable Planning Award from the for the Historic Downtown Area Development Plan (Fort Lewis, Washington, 2008). Ms. Kessler holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame.