Kathryn Terzano holds Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from The Ohio State University (2011). She spent the last year in the Netherlands with the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP) in The Hague, where she developed and managed the organization’s content program. She is a full-time Lecturer for the planning program teaching course such as History of Planning, Urban Poverty and Professional Writing and Presentation Skills for Planners.

Cynthia Melde (MS) is the Nutrition and Physical Activity Manager with the Arizona Department of Health Services. Cynthia oversees policy, system, and environmental change initiatives around nutrition, physical activity, and obesity prevention. Cynthia is the lead for the department on healthy community design and works to include health in all policies and practices through the use of Health Impact Assessments (HIA). Cynthia received national recognition for her work with the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School Program to develop an online assessment tool for school sites to examine built environment barriers to walking and biking to and from school. Cynthia has her Master of Science in Human Nutrition from Arizona State University and her Bachelor of Arts from Scripps College.

Patricia Tompkins is an experienced visual problem-solver with a passion for design-driven social change. She is the Design Director at Splinter Creative, a Tempe-based design agency that partners with passionate and progressive businesses to develop focused brand strategies and graphic design solutions. A graduate of the Visual Communications program at the University of Arizona, she is fluent in photography, illustration and typography. Patricia was invited to participate in the first ever Phoenix Design Summit, a design thinking conference in which designers and community organizations use creative problem-solving techniques to tackle social causes in the Phoenix metro area. She is currently an active member in Cultivate South Phoenix (CUSP), a local coalition of designers and community leaders whose mission it is to leverage the efforts of a broad range of organizations to improve overall health and wellness in South Phoenix. Patricia is the chair of AIGA Arizona's Design for Good program, a movement to ignite, accelerate and amplify design-driven social change.

Lindsay Kinkade is a community-based designer, public artist, teacher, and documentary journalist. She is the Founder and the Creative Director of Little Giant, a design firm that builds tools for public dialogue on public issues. A former visual journalist at The Boston Globe, Lindsay brings an ethical framework and research rigor to every project. Trained in the MFA program at RISD, she brings a love of collaboration and a deep commitment to the highest levels of design and engagement to her public work. She maximizes possibilities by drawing on her hybrid training to facilitate a robust dialogue in the public sphere. She is the founding Design+Communication Coordinator for NSF EPSCoR at RISD, a climate change design research project in the state of Rhode Island, and is a co-founder of the new urban design collaborative, Assembly Required. Lindsay is an adjunct faculty member at the Rhode Island School of Design where she teaches Making It Understandable, a public policy + design course that has recently tackled the challenge of communicating details of the Affordable Care Act with Rhode Islanders. She now lives in the Phoenix area.