Christopher is a partner at Johnston Stromberg Architecture, architects for the Carpenter Square project. He has over 15 years of experience and holds a MArch from University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Design in Architecture from University of Florida. His past experience includes residential, cultural, institutional and large commercial projects as well as multi-family developments. Christopher also co-founded Bench Dog Design, a woodworking studio that transforms locally salvaged lumber into custom designed furniture. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty professor at Philadelphia University and the vice-Chair of the neighborhood's Zoning Committee. Christopher is a LEED accredited professional.

Mami has over 20 years of experience ranging from regional planning to project implementation, through all phases of physical planning and landscape design. Her career has focused on large-scale civic projects in urban environments, particularly waterfronts and river corridors, park and open space systems, trail networks, neighborhoods, and cultural institutions. Mami works with clients integrating green infrastructure and urban development to enhance ecological function and civic life. Notable past projects include a 100-mile corridor plan for Indiana's Wabash River and GreenPlan Philadelphia. Mami earned a BA, Design of the Environment from the University of Pennsylvania and MA in Architecture and planning from Harvard.

Katherine Gajewski is the Director of Sustainability for the City of Philadelphia. Her primary role at the Mayor's Office of Sustainability has been implementation of Greenworks Philadelphia. Prior to this appointment she served as Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff in the Mayor’s Office.In this role she managed a number of major citywide projects including the Philly Spring Cleanup which, in its first year, was recognized as the largest citywide clean-up in U.S. history. Katherine has also led a number of the Nutter Administration’s community outreach efforts, playing a major role in the public engagement during this year’s budget process. She worked with community organizations across the city to organize eight town hall meetings last year that were attended by thousands of people. She has served as an advisor to Mayor Nutter, Chief of Staff Clay Armbrister, and senior members of the Nutter Administration on a wide range of policy issues, with a particular focus on sustainability. Prior to joining the Administration, Katherine worked on the Nutter for Mayor campaign coordinating the sustainability and planning policy teams. She played a key role in Nutter’s transition, coordinating transition teams and searches for senior personnel. Before arriving in Philadelphia, Katherine worked for land conservation organizations in Vermont and Seattle. She holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University.

Jennifer Barr is a senior planner at the Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC). She specializes in community planning, outreach, redevelopment and transit oriented development. Jennifer has worked on community engagement and outreach issues on major Philadelphia planning efforts including the Philadelphia 2035 Comprehensive Plan and the ongoing district plans. She has worked as project manager on the Hunting Park West Industrial Land Use Study and the recently completed the Lower South District Plan among others. Jennifer regularly speaks about community planning and Transit Oriented Development (TOD) projects at regional and local events. Before joining PCPC she was an Assistant Planner at Remington & Vernick Engineers in Haddonfield, NJ where she served as the planner to a number of New Jersey municipalities providing technical assistance on zoning, use, area and bulk variances, design guidelines, redevelopment laws, and development application reviews. As a project manager, she oversaw and conducted the preparation of all aspects of various planning documents including master plans, ordinance revisions, and redevelopment reports and presented plans and reports at public meetings. Jennifer earned a BA in Political Science from St. Joseph’s University and a Masters of City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University.

An architect, planner and urban designer, Yogesh is a Senior Associate with WRT in Philadelphia. Yogesh has worked across multiple disciplines and cultures. His projects have been performed on many scales and have spanned the globe, from Trenton’s Capital Park in New Jersey to the Jamshedpur Comprehensive Plan in India. With his background in architecture and planning, Yogesh brings an interdisciplinary approach to projects, collaborating with communities and stakeholders. Yogesh’s role as Project Manager on large, multi‐stakeholder and multi‐community planning and urban design projects has yielded a thoughtful expertise in consensus building and community outreach and engagement, as evidenced in his successful development of New Jersey State Capitol Park Master Plan, the Market Frankford Streets Corridor TOD Plans and the Virginia State Capitol Master Plan in Richmond, VA. His proficiency in leading large public meetings, design charrettes, and workshops focusing on sustainability, place‐making and implementation have been widely acclaimed while serving as Project Manager on a number of district‐scale projects, including the Hunting Park West Industrial Area Study, and the Hoboken Terminal TOD Redevelopment Plan and the St. Elizabeths Department of Homeland Security North Campus Master Plan in Washington, DC. Yogesh earned a BA in Architecture from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, a Diploma in Urban Design from CEPT, School of Architecture, Ahmedabad, and Masters in Community Planning and Economic Development from the University of Cincinnati.

Steve developed a passion for community engagement during his career as a city planner and planning consultant. This passion inspired Steve, along with his partners Nick Bowden and Nathan Preheim, to found MindMixer in 2010. MindMixer enables citizens (the community) and community leaders to collaborate via social media on important community issues, when it's convenient to them. Steve has over 20 years of planning and urban design experience, including experience as a planning consultant and as a city planner. As a planning consultant, he assisted in the development of comprehensive plans for large and small communities. Steve has used his broad array of land use planning and urban design skills and experience on numerous projects, including blight studies, downtown redevelopment plans, transportation modeling projects, design guidelines, and private development projects. Steve also has significant public‐sector experience. As the Director of Community Development in Raytown, Missouri, he managed all community development activities, including planning, building inspections, code enforcement, and animal control. He also provided professional planning guidance to the governing body, the planning and zoning commission, the economic development commission, and the tax increment financing commission. Prior to his Raytown experience, Steve worked as a planner at Mid‐America Regional Council, the council of government for the Kansas City metropolitan area. Steve also was a lecturer in the Graduate Planning Program at the University of Kansas and worked as a planner with the City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Steve is a member of American Society of Landscape Architects and holds a Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Kansas.

Kristian Kloeckl leads the Real-Time City initiative at the MIT Senseable City Lab in Boston and Singapore and teaches design at MIT as well as the IUAV University of Venice. He has conducted studies in Austria, Italy and the UK and holds a PhD in Design Sciences. Kristian has worked with Antonio Citterio in Milan and has consulted companies in Italy and Austria on design strategy. His work is guided by an interest in how to give form to technological innovation and create meaningful connections between people, objects, space, and the digital data layers that pervade our cities today. His projects have been exhibited at the MoMA (2008), the Venice architecture Biennale (2008), the Vienna MAK (2009), as well as the Singapore Art Museum (2011). MIT's Senseable Cities Laboratory is directed by Carlo Ratti, a Professor at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

Joseph R. Cairone is founding principal of Cairone & Kaupp, Inc. and a landscape architect. As principal in charge of the landscape architectural discipline, he uses his passion for creative and innovative design to inspire his project teams. Mr. Cairone has provided leadership in the design, oversight and coordination of the firm’s multi-faceted projects from Maine to Florida, and westward to the Mississippi Gulf. Mr. Cairone graduated in 1974 from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Science degree in landscape architecture. He has also completed graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania in ecological and historical landscapes.

In 1995 Jeff was selected by his colleagues to serve as Camden County Freeholder Director, a position he held for 10 years. Serving as Freeholder Director, Jeff’s vision for a better Camden County is evident in so many areas. Under his leadership, Camden County has improved government programs and public access to programs while eliminating waste and mismanagement. Consequently, Camden County has received two bond-rating upgrades by Wall Street rating agencies. He led the efforts to support the expansion of Camden County College now viewed as the best 2-year college in the State. He led a bold initiative to secure and preserve nearly a thousand acres of open space and farmland with plans to double that in the near future. Jeff’s passion for improving communities and more importantly the quality of family life is best illustrated in his commitment to the revitalization of the City of Camden. He worked tirelessly on a viable plan to provide State aid that is finally beginning to transform the image of Camden to attract business, and make it a place where people want to live and bring their families.

Michael A. DeGregorio is a recent graduate of the Graduate School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. His study there surrounded the investigation of urban landscape architectural solutions to create better cities. Prior to graduate school, Mike worked within the residential design sector, honing acuities for small scale design, detail, and plant material. In 2007, after graduation from Rutgers University with a BS in Landscape Architecture, Mike worked for a civil/site engineering firm focusing on landscape architecture and lighting components for large scale site design. With an intense passion for landscape architecture and related disciplines, Mr.DeGregorio is currently an adjunct instructor Philadelphia University for the Department of Landscape Architecture. His love for travel began in when he was awarded the Roy H DeBoer Prize in Landscape Architecture from Rutgers University to study the landscapes of Italian Villas. Since then, he has traveled to numerous countries in Central America and Europe and has lived and worked in Shenzhen, China.

Bridget Keegan has ten years of professional planning experience in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. At PennPraxis, Bridget has served as the project manager for a broad range of civic visioning and planning projects including the development of the Civic Vision for the Central Delaware and the Action Plan for the Central Delaware. Bridget brings a good deal of public involvement experience to PennPraxis and her work reflects strategic thinking about implementation and funding strategies. Prior to joining Penn Praxis, she served as project manager for a series of transit-oriented development projects where she has helped suburban Philadelphia communities develop site plans, land use plans, and implementation strategies for the development of underutilized sites around train stations. Bridget has presented her civic engagement and civic visioning work to fellow design professionals at conferences such as the EPA Brownfields Conference. Bridget earned a B.A from the College of the Holy Cross and a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

Jeffrey Barg is Senior Manager, Urban Planning and Policy at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, where he has led the organization’s work in determining the region’s next generation of civic landscapes. Other areas of focus include neighborhood gardens, urban agriculture and vacant land management. Jeff previously served as a project manager for the Penn Institute for Urban Research, where he worked on the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster for Energy Efficient Buildings at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Previous presentations include the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies National Conference and a presentation at the White House to Vice President Joe Biden on the potential for high-speed rail in the Northeast megaregion. Jeff earned a BA in American History & Urban Studies and a Master’s degree of City Planning and Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the American Planning Association Pennsylvania Chapter, Southeast Section.

Alan Greenberger is the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development and Director of Commerce . He is also the Chairman of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission . He has been with the City of Philadelphia since 2008. Prior to that, he was in private practice as an architect and planner with MGA Partners and its predecessor, Mitchell/Giurgola Architects. During his 34 years in private practice, he was the principal designer on numerous architectural, urban design and planning projects. Among his notable projects are the Salvation Army Kroc Corps Community Center in Philadelphia, the West Chester University School of Music and Performing Arts Center, the renovation of Lehigh University's historic Linderman Library, new campus plan and pavilions at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, the America on Wheels Museum in Allentown, new campus plan and buildings for the National Foreign Affairs Training Center, and the Master Plan for the Centennial District in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. He serves on the boards of numerous civic and cultural organizations in Philadelphia including the Fairmount Park Art Association, the Delaware River Waterfront Corporation and Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation. He is also a co-founder of the Design Advocacy Group of Philadelphia, a 1000 member organization that is a model of design advocacy nationwide. Alan Greenberger is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and is on the faculty of the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Kelley is the Lead Designer and Senior Partner for MGA Partners. For over 20 years, his role has been to guide the conceptual approach and crafted development of the firm’s architecture. His designs and completed projects, locates regionally and nationall, are recognized in prominent awards and publications. Mr. Kelley’s academic affiliations are with Drexel University, where he taught architectural studios for over 20 years and the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches a popular undergraduate course on public space and urbanism. In 2007, he was inducted as a fellow in the American Institute of Architects, (FAIA) in the area of design. He earned a BS in architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology and Master of Architecture from Harvard. In addition to Temple’s 20/20 Master Plan, Mr. Kelley’s project include: College House Masterplan, Franklin & Marshall College; Masterplan, The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, PA; Main Library and Urban Masterplan, Greenville, SC; Academic Facilities Masterplan, Bryn Mawr College, PA; Tyler School of Art Masterplan, Temple University; Greenville County Courthouse Masterplan, Greenville, SC

Margaret M. Carney, AIA, is the Associate Vice President and University Architect for Temple University in Philadelphia where she is responsible for the planning and design of all Temple’s campuses. She is currently leading the physical planning and design aspects of the ongoing “Temple 20/20” plan, a 1.2 billion dollar capital improvement strategy for Temple’s main campus in north Philadelphia, as well as development and implementation of an ongoing master plan for Temple’s Health Sciences Campus. Margaret previously served as the University Architect and Planner at Case Western Reserve University where she worked with Michael Van Valkenberg and Ayers Saint Gross to develop the University’s first comprehensive master plan for development there. Based on that plan, her work in Cleveland focused on strengthening the university’s connectivity to and participation in adjacent urban communities. Margaret represented Case Western Reserve in community engagement and collaboration with other “anchor institutions” in the community who worked together in the development of their physical environments to ensure a direct and long term impact on the Cleveland community, both physically and economically. The resulting revitalization currently taking place there includes the Uptown mixed use arts and retail district, the West Campus/Upper Chester /Mount Sinai Hospital site development, and the formation of the Cleveland Foundation’s Evergreen Cooperative, a network of employee-owned businesses. Since graduating from Cornell University in 1980 and prior to her career as a University Architect, Margaret spent 20 years in professional practice with firms such as SOM in Chicago, The Architects Collaborative, Benjamin Thompson Associates and Sasaki Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, engaged in the design and planning of a wide variety of campus buildings and environments, including the Academy of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Baghdad, Athletic Facility Master Plans for Smith College, Cornell University, and Carnegie Mellon, the Harvard/Radcliffe Catholic Student Center in Harvard Square, NYU Law School Library and Residence Hall, Cornell University Physical Sciences Research Facilities, Bowling Green State University Learning Center, and the Cincinnati State Community College Expansion Plan … all of which provided a broad exposure to the issues faced by higher education, the importance of the campus as a community, and its role within the larger context of society.

Alan Berger is Tenured Associate Professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he teaches courses open to the entire student body. He is founding director of P-REX (www.theprex.net), a research practice focusing on the design and reuse of urban waste landscapes and metropolitan environmental systems worldwide. His work emphasizes the link between our consumption of natural resources, and the waste and destruction of landscape, to help us better understand how to proceed with redesigning around our wasteful lifestyles for more intelligent outcomes. He coined the term “Systemic Design” to describe the reintegration of disvalued landscapes into our urbanized territories and regional ecologies. In addition to his award winning books Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America, and Reclaiming the American West, his other books include Designing the Reclaimed Landscape, Nansha Coastal City: Landscape and Urbanism in the Pearl River Delta (with Margaret Crawford). His most recently published books are Systemic Design Can Change the World and Landscape + Urbanism Around the Bay of Mumbai (with Rahul Mehrotra). Prior to MIT he was Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard-GSD, 2002-2008. He is a Prince Charitable Trusts Fellow of The American Academy in Rome and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's PENN Design School (1990).

Ms. Hoekstra’s professional experience includes water resources management in urban areas, including numerous Green Infrastructure projects in Philadelphia. She has supported the development of site design and stormwater management plans for small‐ and large‐scale development projects throughout the country. Ms. Hoekstra also has international experience in sustainable water management. She conducted independent research in Oaxaca, Mexico on water management and public health. Throughout this project, she worked closely with community members, non‐governmental organizations, various state departments, and the National Water Commission of Mexico to discuss and plan sustainable water management goals. Ms. Hoekstra is LEED AP accredited professional.

Nancy O’Donnell, ASLA is the Director of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Philadelphia Green program, which seeks to improve the well‐being, aesthetics, and environmental health of neighborhoods across Philadelphia through horticulture. Ms. O’Donnell’s expertise is in landscape and green design with an emphasis on native plants, and she is also heavily involved in community outreach and education. Ms. O'Donnell has over 20 years experience in urban landscape design and construction. She has a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.

Shandor Szalay is Vice President at AKRF, Inc. and leads the firm’s water resources practice. During his 12 year career, Mr. Szalay has focused on helping communities and institutions through the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions improve the quality of their water resources through innovative stormwater management and stream, wetland, and lake restoration projects. For the past five years, much of Mr. Szalay’s work has focused on implementing GSI and stream restoration projects within the City of Philadelphia. Mr. Szalay’s academic training includes a M.S. in Water Resources Science from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. in Environmental Forest Biology from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Mr. Szalay is Past Board Member of the New Jersey section of the American Water Resources Association and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Villanova University.

Julie Hendrickson, MLA, ASLA is a Landscape Designer with a background in landscape architecture and ecological restoration. She has worked on various types of projects, including habitat and stream restoration, ecological stormwater treatment systems, landscape designs for residential and botanical gardens, and open space and master planning. Ms. Hendrickson’s prior experience working for an interdisciplinary ecological restoration firm allowed her to develop a strong knowledge of habitat-based design techniques for application in wetland, stream, meadow, forest and urban environments. Additionally, this experience provided her valuable training in using a native plant community approach to the design of different landscapes, most notably, wetland and streamside habitats. Ms. Hendrickson holds a B.F.A. from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and an M.L.A./B.L.A. from Penn State University. Julie works at AKRF.

Jonathan F.P. Rose’s business, public policy and not-for-profit work all focus on creating a more environmentally, socially and economically responsible world. In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate development, planning, consulting and investment firm, as a leading green urban solutions provider. The firm currently manages over $1.5 billion of work. In 2005, the firm launched the nation’s first green transit oriented acquisition and redevelopment fund. The company’s mission is to repair the fabric of communities. The firm draws on its human capital, financial depth and real estate expertise to create highly integrated solutions to real estate challenges. The firm’s work touches many aspects of community health; working with cities and not-for-profits to build not only housing, but also civic, cultural, educational and infrastructure open space. A thought leader in the Smart Growth, national infrastructure, green building, and affordable housing movements, Mr. Rose is a frequent speaker and writer. His work has received widespread media attention from CNN to The New York Times and was profiled in e², a PBS series on sustainable development. The firm’s innovative development, planning, investment, new construction, conversion and historic preservation work has won awards from a wide range of notable organizations including: the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Global Green USA, the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects. Mr. Rose is a Trustee of several organizations including: the Urban Land Institute (and was a founding co-chair of its committee on Climate, Energy and Land Use); the Natural Resources Defense Council; and vice chair of Enterprise Community Partners. He serves on the leadership councils of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Architecture, and chairs the Trust for Public Land’s National Real Estate Council. He also chaired the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Blue Ribbon Sustainability Commission, which developed the nation’s first green transit plan. Mr. Rose graduated from Yale University in 1974 with a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy, and received a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980.