Neal PeirceChairman, The Citistates Group Co-author of Citistates, Boundary Crossers, and Century of the City. Wrote a 10-book series on U.S. states and regions culminating in The Book of America: Inside U.S.A. Today. Syndicated columnist, Washington Post Writers Group. Curtis JohnsonPresident, The Citistates Group Co-author of Citistates, Boundary Crossers, Disrupting Class and Century of the City. Former board chair, the Metropolitan Council of Minneapolis-St. Paul, community college president and state government official. Farley PetersManager and Vice President, The Citistates Group Public policy specialist, networker and speaking agent for the Group. ——————- Camille Cates BarnettFormer managing director of City of Philadelphia; former city manager of several cities in Texas and Washington D.C. MarySue BarrettSkilled civic connector, president of Chicago’s Metropolitan Planning Council, former chief of policy for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Eugenie BirchUniversity of Pennsylvania-based scholar of cities — American and global — and member of key urban commissions. Edward BlakelyExpert in regional planning and disaster recovery, also active as a a radio and podcast commentator, presently a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Sydney. David BoydA professional planner, educator, and writer, currently working with MSA Professional Services. Tim CampbellA foremost American urbanist focused on international cities. Former World Bank official, board chair of the Urban Age Institute. Gail ChristopherExpert on holistic health issues, currently Vice President for Programs at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Rick ColeCity Manager of Ventura, Calif., commentator and advocate for issues of sustainability, smart growth and New Urbanism. David CrockettFormer IBM executive. Founder of Chattanooga Institute for Sustainability, consulting group focusing on applying principles of sustainable communities, former chair, Chattanooga City Council. Gene DePrezStrategic advisor to Citiscope, the non-profit journalist-led website and global news service launched by the Citistates Group. He is also the founding partner of Global Innovation Partners. William DodgePrincipal of Regional Excellence Consulting; former Executive Director of National Association of Regional Councils; author of books and articles on regionalism and regional government structures. Thomas M. DownsTransportation expert and commentator. Chairman, North American Board of Veolia Transportation. Former president/CEO of the Eno Transportation Foundation, CEO of Amtrak, and New Jersey Commissioner of Transportation. Richard C. D. FlemingAn active civic entrepreneur in business and government. Recently retired after 17 years as president of the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association; previously president of the Greater Denver Chamber of Commerce and HUD executive. Anthony FlintA veteran journalist long focused on development issues, now with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Author of This Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America and Wrestling With Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder. William FultonCurrently the mayor of Ventura, Calif. — But also journalist, urban planner, commentator and author on urban planning, metropolitan growth, and economic development. Author; editor of California Planning and Development Report. Roberta Brandes GratzAward-winning journalist and urban critic, New York-based author of The Living City: Thinking Small in a Big Way. John Stuart HallProfessor at the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University; specialist in regional governance and university-community linkages. A co-author of Citistates. Lenneal HendersonProfessor of Government and Public Administration and chair of the William Donald Schaefer Center at the University of Baltimore. Lecturer on on metropolitan and environmental issues across the U.S. and internationally. Doug HentonFounder of Silicon Valley firm, Collaborative Economics; specialist in regional economic development strategies involving civic alliances; founder of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship. Jon HockenyosAn Austin, Texas-based economist focused on the dynamics of change in cities and urban regions. Alan HoffmanExpert in, exponent of effective regional transit systems. Founding partner of the San Diego-based Mission Group. William HudnutFormer mayor of Indianapolis, leading that city’s renaissance over 16 years. Author of Cities on the Rebound (1998) and Changing Metropolitan America: Planning for A Sustainable Future (2008). Peter KatzAuthor, consultant, developer and community builder; founding Executive Director of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Expert on form-based codes and other urban planning tools.
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Daniel KemmisFormer mayor of Missoula, Mont., and the Mountain West’s leading contemporary thinker and writer on topics of community, regionalism and human society. Robert LangProfessor of sociology at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas as well as director of Brookings Institution Mountain West headquartered there. Author of Edgeless Cities: Explaining the Elusive Metropolis. Richard LouvJournalist and visionary. Author on life and community (Last Child in the Woods, America II, Childhood’s Future and others). Alex MarshallAuthor, architecture and planning reporter, a commentator on cities and the dynamics of their transportation systems and physical environment. Senior editor, New York Regional Plan association and the Institute of Urban Design. Ed McMahonAuthority on land conservation, smart growth and HP. Senior Fellow for Sustainable Development of the Urban Land Institute. Robert McNultyFounder-president of Partners for Livable Communities, advancing agencies of quality of life and inclusive civic structures in communities of all income and demographic groups. Jonathan MillerAuthor of Emerging Trends in Real Estate, the leading commercial real estate industry outlook report embracing urban futures. Mark MuroRegionalist policy leader for the Brookings Institution, author and journalist. Aaron NaparstekWriter, speaker and social entrepreneur, founder and leader of Streetsblog, a breakthrough web site providing daily coverage of key transportation, land use and environmental issues – initially in New York City, but now in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington as well. Sam NewbergA dedicated writer on cities’ glories and pains with a fitting nickname — “Joe Urban.” Mary NewsomSkilled journalist on issues of urban development and regional futures, formerly an editor at the Charlotte Observer. Manuel PastorDirector of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity at the University of Southern California. A trailblazer in connecting the interests of minority and disadvantaged communities with the economic and social futures of entire citistates. Scott Polikov“Recovering” attorney, urban planner, rail activist, policy consultant, and a civic entrepreneur from Fort Worth, Texas. Samuel SeskinPortland-based transportation and land use specialist. Expert on transit-oriented development. Keith SchneiderJournalist – producer -public policy strategist, Keith Schneider is a New York Times special correspondent, founded the Michigan land Use Institute, and directs communications for the Apollo Alliance. William ShutkinEducator, environmentalist, social entrepreneur and former foundation president. Beth SiegelFounder and President of Mt. Auburn Associates, a New England-based economic development consulting firm promoting economic growth and stability, job generation, and more efficient capital markets. Ron Sims
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