Jeff Churchill is a Senior Planner with the City of Redmond, where he has been with the long-range planning group since 2006. In his role there, he is the lead planning contact for the Overlake Urban Center, Redmond’s largest employment center and the area of Redmond that is expected to undergo the most change over the next 20 years. Jeff works with residents, property owners, employers, brokers, and partner agencies and jurisdictions to advance the vision for Overlake. Aside from Overlake responsibilities, Jeff: co-led the rewriting of the Redmond Zoning Code and its redeployment as an online document tightly integrated with the City’s GIS, manages the Community Indicators program that tracks Redmond’s progress in achieving Comprehensive Plan goals, and leads and co-leads neighborhood plan updates. Jeff has a Master’s degree in Urban Design and Planning from the University of Washington.

Jim Stanton is the Senior Community Affairs Manager at Microsoft. He has been at Microsoft for 12 years managing transportation, community & government affairs, development entitlement, and corporate philanthropy for Microsoft. Jim was responsible for developing and implementing Microsoft’s real estate master plan adopted in 2005, and negotiating the subsequent Development Agreement with the City of Redmond. This agreement enabled 2.2 million square feet of new development on the Microsoft corporate campus, including the newly occupied 1.3M SF West Campus development. Jim is a Board member of the Bellevue Downtown Association and Redmond Chamber of Commerce and a sought after speaker on Microsoft issues. Prior to joining Microsoft Jim worked for the City of Redmond in a variety of planning and management capacities, the last five years managing the City’s Building Department. Jim has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, NY and a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from the University of Washington.

Ron Lewis is Executive Project Director for Sound Transit’s East Link Light Rail Project, currently in the final design phase, and scheduled for construction in 2015 and passenger service in 2023. Ron has been with Sound Transit for ten years having served as Project Director for the Airport Link Extension which opened in 2009, and Deputy Executive Director overseeing Project Control, Real Property, and Community Outreach activities. Ron has been engaged in urban transportation policy development and project delivery in both the public and private sectors since the early 1980’s. Born and raised in Michigan, Ron moved to Seattle in 1980 where he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning and a Master of Science Degree in Transportation Planning and Engineering from the University of Washington. Prior to joining Sound Transit, Ron spent eight years with Parsons Brinkerhoff, an international planning and design firm, as project manager for a variety of transportation policy, planning, and infrastructure projects throughout the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, and ten years with the City of Seattle in transportation planning and engineering. Ron’s career also includes two years in transit planning with King County Metro. Ron’s civic activities have included two terms as a member of Seattle’s Leadership Tomorrow Curriculum Committee, membership on the Board of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, PTA president at Orca Elementary School and PTA Vice President at Franklin High School, serving as a mentor, and coaching youth sports.

Bill Biggs is the Executive Director of Administrative Services for Group Health Cooperative. He is a health care leader with more than 30 years experience in architectural planning, construction, development, project management, and other related corporate real estate services. He has more than 20 years of leadership experience in corporate supply chain, business continuity, emergency management, safety, and other health care administrative functions. During the last 15 years, Bill has successfully led a wide variety of business model transitions involving complex change management that reduced cost, improved service quality, and enhanced staff engagement. Bill has been with Group Health Cooperative since 1986. He currently has enterprise-wide responsibility for facilities, equipment, and supply chain processes of Group Health’s integrated health plan and care delivery system. Bill graduated from the University of Oregon in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in architecture. He has previously served on the Executive Advisory Board for the Project Management Institute, Puget Sound Chapter; the University of Washington Project Management Certificate Program Advisory Board; the Premier Purchasing Partners Compliance Committee; and as president of the Hospital Shared Services Association Board of Directors. He currently serves on the Redmond Chamber Board and as board chair for the Redmond Economic Development Alliance. Biggs served as Group Health’s point of contact during the Master Plan and Development Agreement approval process for its hospital site in Redmond.

Mr. Tovar is a past president of the Washington Chapter, serves on the Chapter’s legislative committee and chairs the committee on Legislative and Institutional Reform for the “Game Changing Initiatives” program. He is a private land use consultant (Principal at Inova), served for twelve years on the Growth Management Hearings Board, and a total of 18 years as planning director for the cities of Shoreline, Covington and Kirkland. He advocated in 1990 for the adoption of the Growth Management Act, and has drafted successful amendments to the GMA to protect floodplains from urbanization and increase flexibility for subarea planning.

State Senator Swecker, owner of Swecker Salmon Farms and an officer of the Washington Fish Growers Association, represents the primarily rural and agricultural 20th Legislative District south of Olympia. He is the ranking minority caucus member of the Government Operations Committee of the State Senate, the committee which hears all environmental, transportation and planning related legislation. He was one of the GOP sponsors of the 2012 legislation to reform the State Environmental Policy Act.

State Senator Sharon Nelson, represents the urbanizing 34th Legislative District southwest of Seattle. She is the ranking majority caucus member of the Governmental Operations Committee of the State Senate. She has championed legislation for environmental protection, transportation infrastructure funding, and affordable housing. She was one of the Democratic caucus sponsors of 2012 legislation to reform the State Environmental Policy Act, and in previous sessions sponsored bills to transit oriented development and climate change.

State Rep. Rodne represents the 5th district, which includes small cities and rural areas in the Cascade foothills of East King County. He is a past city council member, an attorney and serves as corporate counsel for a hospital district. He serves on the House Local Government Committee where he has been a critic of environmental regulations and pushed for safeguards against abuse of eminent domain.

State Representative Fitzgibbon represents the 34th District southwest of Seattle. He has been a legislative aide in Olympia and been the Chair of the Burien Planning Commission. He is the Vice Chair of the House Local Government Committee and also serves on the Transportation and Environment Committees. He has worked on the Transportation Committee to expand transit, and to make walking and bicycling safer. He was one of the prime sponsors of the SEPA reform bill that passed in the 2012 session. He has strongly advocated for cleaning up Puget Sound, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, protecting and improving Washington’s land use laws.

Daniel Benjamin Abramson is Associate Professor of Urban Design and Planning, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and is also a member of the China Studies Faculty at the University of Washington. In 2009 he was Interim and Associate Chair of the Department of Urban Design and Planning. From 2005 to 2009, he served as Secretary of the governing board of the International Association for China Planning (IACP). He holds a B.A. degree in History from Harvard University; masters degrees in Architecture and City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in urban planning from Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was the first American to earn a Chinese degree in urban planning, and continues to conduct various planning and projects in China. These include district- and neighborhood-scale redevelopment and historic preservation planning in Beijing; community-based neighborhood preservation and revitalization planning projects in Quanzhou, Fujian; and ecologically and culturally sustainable earthquake recovery planning in Sichuan Province. Outside China, he has collaborated on post-earthquake neighborhood recovery planning in Kobe, Japan, and on large-scale public housing redevelopment and ownership re-structuring projects in Poland, and in Boston. In Seattle, he has led studios to do plans for historic neighborhood preservation in Chinatown-International District and LEED Neighborhood Development in South Lake Union. His writing on most of these topics has been published in Habitat International, Open House International, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Journal of Planning and Architectural Research, Journal of Urban Design, and Planning Perspectives.

James Connelly, International Living Future Institute, speaks on China’s 3-Star green building rating system, and how it compares with LEED. James is a green building professional with a broad range of industry experience from design and construction to research and advocacy. He is currently coordinating certifications for the Living Building Challenge. He is a graduate from the University of Washington with degrees in Architecture and International Studies. Prior to joining the Institute, James worked on green building projects at the Seattle offices of MulvannyG2 and GGLO. James is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and recently completed a Fulbright Research fellowship in Beijing on green building evaluation systems in China. James is an avid writer and blogger, and founded two websites covering urban development issues in China: ChinaBuildsGreen.com and EcoCityNotes.com. His research has been featured in news outlets such as China Dialogue, Engineering News Record, and a forthcoming book on Chinese Megablocks.

Tao Tao is Chairman of WuHe (Werkhart) International, Beijing, one of China’s top 10 non-governmental full-service design firms and real estate consultancies with offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Frankfurt. Tao Tao is also Secretary General of the Human Settlements Committee of the Chinese Urban Planning Association. He will speak on economic conditions in China for large residential and physical planning projects, and opportunities for international collaboration. Tao Tao received his Bachelor of Engineering in urban planning from the Chongqing College of Architecture, and his Master of Urban Planning and Design from Tsinghua University, and has been a visiting scholar at McGill University School of Architecture. He has 20 years of experience in urban planning and design, in government (Tianjin Municipal Planning Bureau), academia (Tsinghua University and the Chinese Academy of Urban Planning and Design), and the private sector. His project experience ranges from large-scale metropolitan master planning, to detailed residential and commercial area urban design, to not-for-profit community design service for historic neighborhood revitalization.

Martin Regge is a Planner and Urban Designer with NBBJ. Martin graduated from the College of Architecture and Environmental Design with a BS Design from Arizona State University. With 25 years of professional experience, Martin has been involved in a variety of projects throughout his career and worked in such roles as community and environmental planner, campus planner, and urban designer. In these roles, Martin has gained extensive experience working on complex, high-profile, and comprehensive projects involving multiple stakeholders and client types. His recent experience includes transit oriented community, corporate, and institutional master planning and international work including new town planning, university/health care master plans and urban design studies throughout Asia.

Derek Chisholm, Senior Planner at Parametrix, Portland, OR, speaks on ecosystem function indicators and their applicability in China. Derek is a senior-level project manager and planner with experience in a wide variety of planning projects. Derek has managed and participated in successful visioning projects, town center planning efforts, historic surveys, Section 106 compliance projects, and other projects. Derek has successfully completed many challenging projects for Pacific Northwest communities. He specializes in complex projects, with significant public involvement components. Derek has been appointed to numerous committees and task forces, and has served on the Board of Directors for the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation and the American Planning Association. Derek is the immediate past chair of the Vancouver Planning Commission. He is also an adjunct professor at Washington State University. His current projects include a sustainable development plan for Ashland OR, which will be based on a LEED ND framework. Also, Derek is working on and managing aspects of Shoreline Master Program updates for three cities in Washington State. Derek is also leading two preservation projects, one for a Art Deco theater from 1936m, and the other to move a high tech manufacturing company into a vintage American Legion Hall. Finally, and as Derek’s primary assignment at this time, he is serving as the Deputy Environmental Project Manager for the Columbia River Crossing Project. The project is a multi-billion dollar multi-modal project in Portland OR and Vancouver WA. Derek has also completed research on urban indicators in China, and has participated in different master planning and design projects in China.

A-P Hurd is a Vice President at Touchstone Corporation, responsible for corporate and project strategy. Prior to joining Touchstone, she was Director of Strategic Development at McKinstry Co. A-P also teaches a graduate course in the Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies at the University of Washington: Sustainable Development and Regional Economics. She is also Secretary of the Board of the Washington State Chapter of NAIOP; and a board member of Forterra and OneBuild. A-P comes from an operations management and finance background. In 2002-2004, she completed an Operations Management fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where her research focused on system dynamics and complex system architecture. She has worked extensively on environmental policy at the local and state level. She has a particular interest in the structure of incentives: how local/regional/national frameworks quantify and allocate costs and how better frameworks can encourage investment and innovation. She speaks widely on sustainability issues and has recently published The Carbon Efficient City with University of Washington Press. A-P's has received the Better Bricks Advocate Award for her impact on creating sustainable buildings across the Pacific Northwest, and the Puget Sound Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Award for business leadership.

Tracy Krawczyk has over 25 years of transportation and urban planning experience in both the public and private sectors. For the past 10 years, she has worked for the Seattle Department of Transportation, serving as the Policy and Planning Director since 2008. In this capacity Tracy oversees an array of program areas, including policy development; strategic planning; long-range transportation planning; urban design and complete streets; travel options; parking; transit speed and reliability; capital programming; grants; asset management; and regional transportation planning. Within the Department, Tracy has developed transportation investment decision-making processes that incorporate the city’s core values of social equity, environmental sustainability, economic productivity and livability. Additionally, she has worked to expand SDOT’s transportation system stewardship responsibilities to include place-making in public rights of way. Prior to joining SDOT, Tracy was a Capital Project Manager with Sound Transit, and she worked for the City of Bellevue Transportation Department in various capacities, including Regional Issues and Capital Programming Manager. Tracy started her career as a consultant in Boston working on a variety of large, mixed-use development projects. She has a Bachelor of City Planning degree from the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture.

Christina Mudgett received her BS in Civil Engineering, cum laude, from Seattle University. She is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Washington and has more than 35 years of engineering experience, primarily in the areas of land development and transportation. After 10 years in consulting, she joined the public sector. She worked for Snohomish County during the time when the Growth Management Act was becoming the law of the land and was the Director of the Division responsible for drafting the County’s first Traffic Impact Fee Ordinance. While at the County Road Administration Board in the late 1990s, she was responsible for insuring that County Engineers statewide understood the details of GASB 34, the requirement to account for the value of infrastructure assets in financial reporting and – as a side note – was one of the few people who attended every meeting of every committee of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Transportation in 2000 and 2001 to represent the interests of the thirty-nine county road departments across the state. Finally, she was the Director of the Technical Services Division of the City of Olympia Public Works Department before joining Pierce County Public Works and Utilities over five years ago, as its Transportation Programming Supervisor. She is responsible for the County’s Six-Year Transportation Improvement Program, Annual Construction Program, and budgeting and funding for the County’s transportation projects, including obtaining and administering grant funding. She currently serves on a number of transportation-related committees of the Puget Sound Regional Council and advises the County Executive on regional transportation policy matters. She has authored a number of articles about transportation issues over the years, the most recent of which was an overview of Transportation 2040 on the eve of its adoption by the General Assembly of the Puget Sound Regional Council in May 2010. “Not Just Another Transportation Plan” was published in the December 2009 / January 2010 edition of Chamber Vision, a bimonthly publication of the Tacoma Pierce County Chamber. Ms. Mudgett has presented at a Washington APA Conference in the past, as well as to the American Public Works Association’s National Congress, and Washington State Association of Counties Conferences. She has also testified before the State Legislature. She is a member of the Washington State Association of County Engineers, the National Association of County Engineers, the Transportation Research Board, the American Public Works Association, and the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Ms. Mudgett has taught courses for the Washington Finance Officers Association and as part of the Washington Association of Counties’ “Certified Public Official” program. In 2007, she received a Certificate of Sustainability Leadership from the University of Oregon.

Since August 2006, Robin has served as a Program Manager with the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC). She is responsible for the current update of the region’s long-range plan, Transportation 2040. She is also responsible for the creation of a new Transportation 2040 Prioritization Process as well as a new Transportation 2040 Monitoring Program. Robin oversees the region’s Congestion Management Process (CMP), as well as PSRC regional planning for transit, operations, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), transportation demand management (TDM), safety and security. Her career includes 21 years of experience in both the public and private sectors, with an emphasis on multimodal transportation planning. Prior to joining PSRC, Robin was a planner in the headquarters planning offices with both the Federal Transit Administration and the Federal Highway Administration. Robin has a Bachelor of Science and a Master’s of Public Administration from the University of Delaware.

Don Samdahl is a Principal with Fehr & Peers in Seattle. He has over 30 years of experience in conducting transportation plans for local communities. He is the co-chair of an ITE committee that produced a recommended practice, “Planning Urban Roadway Systems”, which introduced the concept of complete networks. Don has worked with the state Growth Management Act since its inception and is a national authority on concurrency management systems and impact fee programs.

Chip Davis is a Senior Planner at the City of Burien where he is responsible for current planning and project management. Chip was project manager for the recently adopted Transportation Master Plan (TMP) which advances two new transportation concepts for Burien: a layered transportation network and multi-modal level of service standards. The Transportation Master Plan also provided a framework for updating Burien’s Comprehensive Plan policies relating to transportation. Prior to Burien, Chip worked for fifteen years at Spokane Transit Authority in a number of capacities: Transit Planner, Assistant to the Executive Director and finally as Director of Development Services. Chip received his Bachelors Degree in Urban Planning from the University of Washington.

Gil Cerise is a Senior Transit Planner at the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC), the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) for the central Puget Sound region encompassing King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish counties. Gil is the agency’s lead staff for transit planning and special needs transportation planning in the region. Gil has over 18 years of experience in planning, working for cities, counties, and transit agencies planning and implementing a variety of transportation, land use, and environmental programs and projects. Gil has a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington and received his Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University.

Michael Hintze is a Senior Planner at Toole Design Group where he works on a wide range of bicycle, pedestrian, and transit projects, and conducts research for state and federal agencies, including NCHRP and FHWA. Michael has assisted communities throughout the country develop bicycle and pedestrian master plans, plan and design shared use paths, create safe routes to schools, develop completes streets policies and design manuals, and improve access to transit. Several of his projects have received APA awards, including the City of Tacoma Complete Streets Design Guidelines, the South Hill Health Impact Assessment, and the Gateway Bike Plan (St. Louis region). Michael has a B.S. in Environmental Economics and received his Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Washington.

Amalia Leighton is a professional civil engineer and planner with ten years of experience at SvR Design Company in Seattle. She was the project manager for a team of consultants that worked with six cities in King County during the Communities Putting Prevention to Work grant period. SvR worked with Alta Planning + Design, CollinsWoerman and Urban Food Link on the projects. Past projects for Amalia include the Seattle Pedestrian Master Plan, City of Kirkland LID Feasibility Study, Department of Ecology WWHM Scenario Study. She is currently working on a creek restoration project in South Seattle and as a subconsultant on the Seattle Bicycle Master Plan. Amalia is the vice-chair of the Seattle Planning Commission and is participating in the ULI Northwest Center for Sustainable Leadership.

Janet Shull is a senior planner at City of Federal Way. Her focus is current and long range planning for the city. Recent projects include the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan and Shoreline Master Plan. Additionally, Janet performs zoning code updates and commercial and residential building permit application review. Janet has a passion for sustainable development. In addition to having her AICP accreditation, Janet completed the National Sustainable Building Advisor Program and is a LEED Green Associate. As part of the Communities Putting Prevention to Work Grant, Janet led the efforts to update the Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan for the Comprehensive Plan. Additionally, she worked on healthy food access in Federal Way through land use changes, transportation access and city programs. Janet will highlight these and other successes in her presentation.

Nicole Sanders is a long range planner at the City of Snoqualmie. She is currently guiding the city Comprehensive Plan update and focusing on integrating sustainability principles into policies and practices. Nicole is also supporting the work around the development of a Master Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan for the City. Nicole is a co-chair of the Healthy King County Coalition – a group of people that are working to continue some of the efforts that began around the Communities Putting Prevention to Work. The coalition is working to keep to momentum going around policy, system and environmental change that supports obesity reduction and tobacco cessation. Nicole is also member of the American Planning Association.

Denise Lathrop is the Planning Manager for the City of Des Moines. She is responsible for the City’s growth management planning. Denise led the effort to include Healthy Des Moines policies into the Comprehensive Plan. The result of this effort included the adoption of the first health element in Washington State by the Des Moines City Council. The health element includes land use, transportation and food access policies that will guide the city programs and practices to reduce obesity rates of its populations. Denise has also worked on Light Rail and Transit Corridor Planning, Des Moines Critical Areas Regulations and Zoning Code updates. Denise has her AICP accreditation.

Jeff’s 12+ year career as a landscape architect has focused on creating meaningful places that account for the ecological, aesthetic, and social factors that come with every site- doing so with a team of experts that share a common vision. Jeff spent the majority of his career at a large design firm with a focus on the design and implementation of enduring places, from urban to rural, at a variety of scales. His practice has primarily been local, focusing on projects in the Pacific Northwest. Jeff specializes in the management of complex multi-disciplinary design and planning projects. His portfolio consists of many constructed projects. Jeff is adept at giving form to planning concepts, often finding that good special design can mitigate or alleviate neighborhood concerns related to land use. Jeff and his firm Fischer Bouma Partnership are currently working on a unique new rural neighborhood plan that will include live work residences, agriculture preservation and job training. Jeff is a registered landscape architect whose panning and work has been recognized with awards from APA and ASLA.

Sandy is a partner and co-founder of Fischer Bouma Partnership. Sandy’s 30 year career as a landscape architect and community designer has focused on leading teams, advocating for livable communities, designing attractive places and shaping enduring landscapes. She has held senior director positions in local government, international consulting firms and her own practice. Sandy enjoys collaborating with interdisciplinary teams on challenging projects and idea driven solutions. Clients appreciate her ability to balance vision and pragmatism to produce plans and designs that are actionable and catalytic. Her community plans have effectively guided change in new and existing; rural and urban; local and international communities. She has worked with diverse clients and communities on visioning, spatial plans and policy frameworks. Her process encourages integration of resource conservation, economic and community development strategies. Sandy has a diverse and award winning design portfolio of built projects in the Northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest regions. She has received numerous APA regional awards for neighborhood and community plans. Her planning work has been recognized by Puget Sound Regional Council and the Governor with Vision 2020 and Governor’s Smart Communities Awards. Sandy seeks to understand each site within a larger context of ecology, time, culture and community values. She enjoys collaborating, learning and teaching. Sandy often works with scientists, engineers, designers and artists to gain an understanding of and creatively express the unique history, culture and geography of the places and the people she is entrusted to work with.

Peter is a Founding Principal of architectural and planning firm BC&J. He is a registered architect, a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, contributing faculty at the University of Washington, College of Built Environments. In his practice, Peter leads a variety of architectural planning and design projects as well as serving as research evaluation and testing of both conventional and sustainable building products and practices Peter is also the owner of the Perfect Little House Company. His flexible home plans encourage live work arrangement and adapt to changing needs of families.

Employed at Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch since September 1990, Glenn has been CEO since October 2006. Headquartered in Billings, Montana YBGR has been providing services to emotionally disturbed youth and their families since 1957. YBGR has 400 employees and provides services to 800 youth on a daily basis. YBGR provides a comprehensive continuum of services that meet the emotional, educational, physical and spiritual needs of youth and families. More information is available at ybgr.org. Glenn graduated from Seattle Pacific University in 1972 with a degree in business administration. Prior to moving back to Billings in 1980, he lived in the Seattle area and was employed by two banking companies, serving as a commercial lender and auditor. Glenn is passionate about creating dynamic community partnerships that create vibrant, healthy communities.

Anne Fritzel, AICP, is a senior planner with the Growth Management Services unit of the Washington State Department of Commerce. For more than ten years, she has assisted local governments to understand and comply with the requirements of the state’s Growth Management Act. Anne has developed technical assistance materials on updating comprehensive plans, bicycle and pedestrian planning, electric vehicles, and planning for housing. Anne’s career includes work as a staff or consultant for cities in British Columbia, Washington State, and in Sweden. Anne has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Victoria, and a Master's Degree in urban and regional planning from Queen’s University at Kingston, in Ontario, Canada.

Paul Inghram is the Comprehensive Planning Manager for the City of Bellevue. Paul has nearly twenty years experience serving communities, working for cities and as a consultant. Recently, Paul has worked on the planning and redevelopment of the Bel-Red area in Bellevue, including planning for light rail service, transit oriented neighborhoods, and financial tools to improve infrastructure. Paul has an undergraduate degree in design and planning from the University of Washington and an MBA from Seattle University.

Shane Hope, AICP, is the Community and Economic Development Director for the City of Mountlake Terrace. She has provided leadership in developing—and implementing—the City’s transportation plans, land use plans, and both economic vitality and sustainability strategies. She has led teams in planning for light rail station areas, bus transit facilities, electric vehicle infrastructure, and transit-oriented development, as well as in developing a transportation master plan, a transit services strategy, and an update of the Comprehensive Plan’s transportation element. In doing so, Shane has worked with numerous transportation agencies, such as WSDOT, Sound Transit, and Community Transit. Currently, she serves on the Puget Sound Regional Staff Committee, the North Corridor Task Force for the Growing Transit Communities project, and the Transit Overlay Zone Advisory Committee. Her career has included various planning-related positions, including being the Managing Director of Growth Management Services for the State of Washington. Professional organizations include American Planners Association, Congress for New Urbanism, Urban Land Institute, and others. Shane holds a Masters in Urban Planning degree, with a certificate in Urban Design, from the University of Washington.

Allan has been the Director of Planning and Community Development Department for City of Everett since 2004. He has 33 years of experience in planning including the development of comprehensive plans, land use codes, design standards, subarea plans, planned actions, transportation planning and funding, shoreline planning and a variety of other planning programs. Allan led the planning effort for Everett’s award winning Downtown Plan (PSRC Vision 2020 award, Governor’s Smart Growth award, APA-PAW best plan award – all in 2007), and the recently completed Evergreen Way Revitalization Plan. Allan has been involved in the development of the PSRC Vision 2040 Regional Growth Strategy as a member of the Regional Staff Committee, and of the Snohomish Countywide Planning Policies as a member of the Planning Advisory Committee. Allan currently serves on both the Oversight Committee and the North Corridor Task Force for the Growing Transit Communities program through the PSRC. Allan has presented at various conferences (UW, 2010, and APA, 2011 on corridor planning efforts in Everett; 2011 Law conference on land use incentives).

Steve is a Senior Watershed Specialist for Hart Crowser and a licensed geologist and hydrogeologist in Washington State. For the last 35 years he has managed water supply studies, watershed studies, superfund investigations, development of partnering programs, development of private and municipal water supplies, wellhead protection, and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS). Of special note is Steve’s management, of the Coeur d’Alene Basin Remedial Investigation, Feasability Study, Proposed Plan, and Record of Decision under an EPA contract. As one of the the largest superfund sites in the country, the investigation covered 2,500 square miles in Idaho and Washington along 166 miles of the Coeur d’Alene and Spokane rivers. Watershed and water quality impacts from 100 years of mining resulted in substantial degradation of the ecosystem and fishery. For the last 6 years Steve has served on the Board of the American Water Resource Washington Section. In 2007, he chaired a 2-day conference, “Washington State and British Columbia: Transboundary Water Resources Issues.”

Doug is a professional planner with nearly 25 years of experience in comprehensive and growth management planning. Since1996, he has applied planning principles in the field of natural resource management as a senior project and program manager. As the Watershed Coordinator for the Green/Duwamish and Central Puget Sound Watershed for the past 14 years, Doug coordinates the planning and implementation measures across 17 local governments, state, and federal agencies, and business and environmental interests, an assemblage of stakeholders called the Watershed Ecosystem Forum, to address regional planning and natural resource issues in the watershed. In this capacity, he has led the regional planning, policy, and technical strategies for recovering Chinook salmon and the development of the Salmon Habitat Plan: Making Our Watershed Fit for a King”, the recipient of the Puget Sound Regional Council’s 2006 VISION 2020 Award for promoting a livable region by helping implement VISION 2020 the regional growth management, economic and transportation strategy. Prior to his regional watershed work, Doug was a planner for the Cities of Des Moines and Everett and King County where he provided long-range planning services, including the development of critical areas ordinances and comprehensive plans in project manager positions. He holds a Master of Regional Planning from Washington State University, and Bachelor of Science degrees in Fish and Wildlife Management and Agricultural Land Resources from Montana State University. He is serving a second term as a Normandy Park City Councilmember where he is currently Mayor Pro Tem.

Sarah is a Principal for Veda Environmental. For the past 15 years, Sarah has organized, facilitated and led numerous stakeholder-involvement efforts focused on natural resource conservation and restoration. Sarah’s strong science and technical background has helped ensure that key stakeholders including resource managers, scientists, policy-makers and the public are engaged, informed and armed with the best available information to make decisions. She has worked on numerous complex stakeholder outreach and involvement projects addressing farmland preservation, shellfish harvest, oil spill prevention and stormwater, and works to help bridge the gap between science, policy and people. Sarah has a Masters Degree in Forest Ecosystem Science from University of Washington. She is currently co-founder and Principal of Veda Environmental, a consulting firm that focuses on stakeholder involvement, education and outreach, and facilitation.

Tracy Stanton is the Senior Program Manager with Earth Economics, and has nearly 20 years of work (project and program) experience in environmental and water policy. Her most recent work with The Freshwater Trust, an Oregon-based non-profit, and as Water Program Manager at the Ecosystem Marketplace (EM), a project of the non-profit Forest Trends, has focused on the evolving field of ecosystem services specifically on market-based approaches to fund conservation and payments for watershed services. Her research while at Forest Trends led to the 2010 publication Payments for Watershed Services: An Emerging Marketplace (http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/dynamic/resources.library.page.php?page_id=7599&section=water_market&eod=1). Prior to joining Forest Trends, Tracy worked as a consultant for the National Academy of Public Administration where she collaborated on an assessment of US EPA's delivery of environmental services using the Chesapeake Bay watershed as a learning platform. From 1995-2003, Tracy worked at the University of Maryland in the School of Public Policy and Center for International Economics developing programs aimed at improving the effectiveness of government policies and programs in the environment and financial management arenas. She holds a Master in Public and Environmental Policy from the University of Maryland and a BA from The Ohio State University.

An ecological economist for over 20 years, David Batker is well known for his collaborative approach to solving complex, multi-jurisdictional and trans disciplinary challenges. As founder and executive director of Earth Economics since 1998, Dave has completed over a dozen path-breaking ecological economics studies that have changed policy at the international and local levels. He has worked in 35 countries on environmental issues and ecosystem services. Most recently, Dave has been developing accounting strategies for the natural capital of public utilities, designing a framework for institutional watershed management and coordination, and engaged in the development of new economic measures of happiness, trade and international finance. He is regularly invited to attend the World Bank/IMF meetings with finance ministers from over 150 countries, has participated in the Climate Convention and serves as an expert advisor on many technical boards including: The Loss Avoidance Methodology Focus Group for FEMA and Floodplain Management Policy and Program Investigation Committee. He has provided over 100 trainings for environmental groups in ecological economics and has worked extensively in the Northwest on conservation and economic analysis. David has recently completed ecosystem service valuation studies for Metro Parks Tacoma (Tacoma WA), McKenzie Watershed (Lane and Linn County, Oregon), Skykomish Watershed (Snohomish County, WA), Puyallup Watershed (Pierce County, WA), Seattle Public Utilities (King County, WA), Palawan, Philippines, Ecuadorian Amazon, for the Puget Sound Basin, Coast of Oregon and the Lower Mississippi Delta.

Andrea Petzel is the Residential Sector Manager for Community Power Works, an innovative energy efficiency program based in the City of Seattle's Office of Sustainability and Environment. Her primary focus is program delivery of 2,000 single-family home energy upgrades by June of 2013. In addition to program design and implementation, Andrea also manages a pool of contractors committed to Seattle’s Community High-Road Agreement, a workforce development agreement that strives to create living wage green jobs for underserved populations.

Ruth has over 20 years of experience designing and implementing resource conservation strategies to manage programs that result in outcomes for her clients. She currently manages the marketing, outreach and implementation team for Community Power Works for Home, a City of Seattle home energy upgrade program. Ruth also helped manage the Seattle City Light’s Powerful Neighborhoods program, providing and installing energy efficiency devices including CFL light bulbs, showerheads, aerators to over 20,000 households in Seattle.

Yvonne is a Program Manager with Conservation Services Group. She currently manages the RePower energy efficiency and conservation programs for the Bainbridge Island, Bremerton, and Kitsap County, WA, as well as the Puget Sound Energy Weatherization program. Yvonne has thirteen years of experience in green building, sustainability, energy efficiency, and public involvement consulting. She is a certified facilitator and charrette planner, and specializes in energy efficiency and weatherization program management, development of new green building programs and policy, green building training curricula, and development of sustainable operations & maintenance guidelines and trainings.

Andrea is the Programs, Planning & Policies Services Manager at O’Brien & Company. She brings over ten years of professional experience in project and program management, logistics coordination, and research and writing in the environmental and sustainability field for public, private and non-profit sectors. At O’Brien & Company, she leads green building and sustainability strategy efforts for county and municipal clients, working to achieve measureable results through creative and collaborative approaches. She also develops engaging green building curriculum, education and programming for professional and lay audiences.