Pratt Cassity is Director of The Center for Community Design and Preservation in the College of Environment and Design at the University of Georgia. Pratt teaches graduate courses in Historic Preservation, Landscape Architecture and Planning. He has also conducted a ten-year service-learning studio in Ghana, initiated civic engagement partnerships in Croatia, Tunisia and Thailand as well as lecturing regularly in Slovakia. He has taught a year-long freshman service-learning seminar for the past seven years called Global Engagement. For ten years he served as Executive Director of the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions and now his office houses the administrative offices of the Alliance. He has provided leadership for several Your Town: the Rural Institute on Design workshops throughout the southeast as well as over 80 community design charrettes in Georgia. He has worked closely with the National Trust for Historic Preservation on other projects such as Preservation Leadership Training, training for the Americans with Disability Act and Community and Countryside workshops. Mr. Cassity holds a B.S. in Horticulture from Mississippi State University, an M.S. in Public and Urban Affairs from Georgia State University and a certificate in the Conservation of Traditional Structures from the Institute for Advanced Architectural Studies.