Cynthia L. Hoyle, FAICP, has over 30 years of planning experience working at the local, state and national levels. She specializes in transportation, creating community mobility, Complete Streets, Safe Routes to School planning, comprehensive planning and visioning. Her passion is promoting choice and livability. Cynthia is a Fellow of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). She served on the ITE 1998 Outstanding Traffic Engineering Council Project for the Recommended Practice entitled "Design and Safety of Pedestrian Facilities". She is a Complete Streets Instructor with the National Complete Streets Coalition and a League Certified Instructor through the League of American Bicyclists. In addition being a founding partner of Orion Planning Group, Cynthia is also currently Principal of Hoyle Consulting which she founded in 2001. She has been retained as the Transportation Planning Consultant for the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (CUMTD),2002 to present. Prior to 2001 she was a Principal with Planning Consultants where she was involved in a number of comprehensive plans, strategic plans, and planning commissioner training workshops. She has also worked as the Traffic Planner for the City of Oklahoma City.

Bruce Knight, FAICP, has served as the Planning Director of Champaign, Illinois since 1988, and as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Illinois in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. He has worked as a city planner in Liberty, Missouri, and Iowa City, Iowa and as a regional planner with the Mid-Iowa Development Association Council of Governments in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Knight joined American Planning Association (APA) in 1980 and became a certified planner in 1985. Knight served as President of APA from 2008-2012 and on the APA Board of Directors from 2000-2008. He chaired the 2000-2005 National APA Awards Juries, the Membership Committee and the Great Places in America Task Force. He also served on the Fellows of AICP Task Force and selection committee, the APA Mission Statement Task Force and as Illinois Chapter President from 1997-2000. Knight has a B.S. in Urban Planning from Iowa State University and an M.A. in Public Affairs from the University of Iowa.

Leslie Pollock, FAICP, is a Principal Consultant and Co-founder Camiros Ltd., an urban planning and zoning consulting firm in Chicago. He has a wide ranging practice, and has been nationally recognized for his work in neighborhood planning, TOD and zoning. His clients include large and mid-sized cities across the country such as Baltimore, MD; Chicago, IL; Minneapolis, MN; New Orleans, LA; Phoenix, AZ; Salt Lake City, UT; Toledo, OH; and Raleigh, NC; Illinois cities such as, Decatur, Macomb, Peoria, Rockford and Urbana; and suburban communities in the Chicago area including Des Plaines, Libertyville, Riverside, Schaumburg, and Tinley Park. Les has served on a number of public and professional boards and commissions, including as an elected city council member and chair of the Plan Commission in Wilmette, Illinois. Currently, he serves as a member of the Mayor's Landscape Task Force in Chicago, and is the immediate past President of Lambda Alpha International - an international land economics honorary society. Les has served as faculty in planning at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of Illinois - Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Loyola University.