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Bio: Sara Schott Nikolic is a Senior Planner with the Growing Transit Communities Partnership, a three-year effort funded through the HUD Sustainable Communities Initiative and housed at the Puget Sound Regional Council. The Partnership aims to create equitable opportunities for people to live and work along the region’s three major long-range high capacity transit corridors. Sara’s roles include leading the corridor planning efforts along the North Corridor from Seattle to Everett, as well as managing the development of a Transit Community Typology for the 74 program study areas. Prior to PSRC, Sara was the Urban Strategies Director and Co-Executive Director of the statewide smart growth advocacy organization Futurewise.

Education: Sara holds a M.S. in Natural Resources from the Ohio State University and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin.

Key Publications: --Nikolic, Sara. 2011. "Growing Equitable Transit Communities in the Central Puget Sound Region." AIA Forum Magazine. American Institute of Architects Seattle Chapter. Available at: www.aiaseattle.org --Nikolic, Sara, Dan Bertolet, Peter Dane, David Cutler, Don Vehige, Bill LaBorde and Tim Trohimovich. 2009. Transit-Oriented Communities: A Blueprint for Washington State. Futurewise. Available at: www.futurewise.org --Arrington, G.B. and Sara Nikolic. 2009. "Turning the D in TOD into Dollars." Daily Journal of Commerce.

Other Publications: --Nikolic, Sara and Peter Steinbrueck. 2010. "Greening Seattle’s Travel." AIA Forum Magazine. American Institute of Architects Seattle Chapter. Fall 2010. Available at: www.aiaseattle.org --Nikolic, Sara J. S., and Tomas M. Koontz. 2008. "Nonprofit Organizations in Environmental Management: A Comparative Analysis of Government Impacts." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

Past Assignments: --Presenter. “Beyond Clean Cars and Fuels: Transportation and Land-Use Planning in a Carbon-Constrained World.” New Partners for Smart Growth Annual Conference, Seattle. February 4-6, 2010. --Moderator. “Equity and Environmental Protection in Transit-Oriented Communities: Local Approaches.” New Partners for Smart Growth Annual Conference, Seattle. February 4-6, 2010. --Faculty Presenter. “Transit-Oriented Development.” Law Seminars International, Seattle. Sept 23, 2009.

Bio: Kim Lundgren is the Director of Sustainability for Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. Ms. Lundgren has over 15 years of professional experience, the last 12 of which have been spent driving the development and implementation of local climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and sustainability programs around the country. In working with her clients, Ms. Lundgren promotes a comprehensive approach to sustainability and encourages deep engagement with key stakeholders in the community including, residents, businesses, and institutions. Ms. Lundgren also has significant experience with various energy baseline, building benchmarking, and greenhouse gas protocols and accounting tools. Ms. Lundgren is responsible for the development of the first municipal climate action plan in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was one of the first municipal sustainability directors in that state. Prior to joining, VHB, Ms. Lundgren was a senior director at ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA, Inc. While at ICLEI USA, Ms. Lundgren successfully delivered technical assistance and capacity building to hundreds of local governments around the country related to greenhouse gas management, strategic energy planning, sustainability planning, climate vulnerabilities, and climate adaptation planning. While at ICLEI, Ms. Lundgren led the development of ICLEI’s Climate Resilient Communities Program and one of the first municipal climate adaptation plans in the country. Ms. Lundgren is a member of the American Public Work Association Center for Sustainability and the American Planning Association.

Education: Ms. Lundgren has a B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and an M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University.

Past Assignments: Ms. Lundgren has been a featured speaker at the last two national APA Conferences as well as the APWA Sustainability Conference.

Bio: Brian Soland is an urban and transportation planner who has rich and diverse experience in transit, bicycle and pedestrian planning, land use planning, roadway design, community engagement, community-based transportation planning, and climate change planning. His land use planning and urban design experience includes developing general plans, zoning codes, specific plans, and transportation oriented development plans. He has not only developed streetscape design guidelines, but also carried out street design working alongside transportation engineers.

Education: Masters of City and Regional Planning Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Bio: Devin is a Principal and Cofounder of Houseal Lavigne Associates with special expertise in urban design, land use planning, site planning, land planning, land use regulation, graphic illustration and development visualization, and geographic information systems. Devin received his Bachelor’ degree from the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, Ontario. Prior to cofounding Houseal Lavigne Associates, Devin was the Senior Planning Manager for URS Corporation where he directed and provided technical assistance to numerous studies ranging from a Chicago Stockyards Market and Land Use Assessment to a Comprehensive Plan for the Village of Sugar Grove. Devin is regarded as one of the profession’s top illustrators and cartographers for his unmatched ability to communicate plans, planning concepts, and development visualization. He has managed, directed, authored and contributed to a number of downtown plans, corridor plans, subarea plans, park master plans, and comprehensive plans. Devin has garnered national attention and has helped distinguish the firm’s body of work, receiving multiple awards from the Illinois Chapter of the American Planning Association as well as a State Illinois Tomorrow Award for Outstanding Balanced Growth. Devin is a member of Lambda Alpha International, an international honorary fraternity for professional excellence in the field of land economics.

Bio: Bruce Race, FAIA, FAICP is the principal and founder of RACESTUDIO and is responsible for all aspects of project planning, design and delivery. Since founding RACESTUDIO in Berkeley, CA in 1994, his projects have received 31 design and planning awards including national awards from the American Institute of Architects, American Planning Association, Environmental Protection Agency and Society of College and University Planning. The Long Range Development Plan for UC Merced received a national 2012 AIA COTE Top Ten Green Projects Award. In addition to maintaining an active national urban design practice, he is a professor, doctoral candidate and columnist. Bruce is the Associate Professor of Practice and a full-time faculty for Ball State University’s Master of Urban Design program in Indianapolis. His design talent, practice experience and research interests intersect in his classroom studios where he emphasizes design innovation and comprehensiveness. Bruce is a PhD candidate in the Welsh School of Architecture at Cardiff University. His research focuses on the impacts of climate change mitigation and adaptation on the future shape of cities. Bruce is the urban design columnist for the Indianapolis Business Journal. Bruce Race is one of very few planning and design professionals in the United States that have been elected to fellowship by both the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and American Institute of Certified Planners (FAICP). In 2012 he received the Planning Sagamore from APA Indiana recognizing his accomplishments “as a model planner before the public and the planning profession”.