Fellowship Winners

2011

Yolanda Richards was selected as the 2011 UDP Division Fellow in conjunction with the Planning and Women Division.

Richards's UDP-funded Fellowship duties were focused on her time spent working with youth in the Urbana-Champaign area, and seeking ways to integrate youth into the planning process.

Richards holds a Bachelor of Urban Studies and Planning from the University of California, San Diego, and at the time of her Fellowship selection, was in the process of completing the last term of a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Prior to serving as the 2011 UDP Division Fellow, Richards worked as an intern for the City of Champaign and as a teaching assistant for the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and served as the Volunteer Civic Engagement Coordinator for the Planners Network.

2010

Sarah Sisser was named the 2010 Urban Design & Preservation Division Fellow. Sisser holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Historic Preservation from the Savannah College of Art and Design (Summa Cum Laude) and is currently pursuing a Master of Community Planning degree from Auburn University.

Sisser worked on a variety of preservation planning projects as an intern for the Hancock Park District in Findlay, Ohio, the Chatham County-Savannah Metropolitan Planning Commission, and the City of Auburn Planning Department. She is the 2010 recipient of the Alabama Chapter of the APA's Distinguished Leadership Award for a Planning Student and was recently awarded Auburn's Arch R. Winter Scholarship for Excellence in Community Planning. As an army spouse, Sisser has an interest in the utilization of urban design and preservation principles in the planning of military installations to the benefit of military families. Sisser currently resides with her husband near Ft. Benning, Georgia.

2009

Scott Curry, recipient of a joint Master's in Urban Planning / Master's in Urban Design from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, was chosen the 2009 Fellow of the APA Urban Design and Preservation Division.

2008

In March 2008, Maya Haptas, a second-year student in the Masters of Historic Preservation program at Cornell University, was chosen as the spring 2008 Fellow of the APA Urban Design and Preservation Division's Fellowship Program.

2007

Margot Walker, a student at the Pratt Institute, was chosen as the first Fellow of the APA Urban Design and Preservation Division's Fellowship Program in October 2007.