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Neal
Peirce
Chairman,
The Citistates Group
Co-author
of Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive
World. Syndicated columnist, Washington Post Writers Group.
Author of 10-book series on U.S. states and regions.
Curtis
Johnson
President, The Citistates
Group
Co-author
of Citistates. Former board chair, the Metropolitan Council
of Minneapolis-St. Paul, community college president and state government
official.
Farley
Peters
Manager and Vice President,
The Citistates Group
Public
policy specialist, networker and speaking agent for the
Group.
Carol
Steinbach
Operating Partner,
The
Citistates Group
Writer
on urban and neighborhood issues.
Camille
Cates Barnett
Former city manager
of several cities in Texas and Washington D.C., leads Washington office of Public Financial Management.
Gail
Christopher
Expert on holistic health issues, directs the
Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies.
David
Crockett
Former IBM executive.
Founder of Chattanooga Institute for Sustainability, consulting
group focusing on applying principles of sustainable communities,
former chair, Chattanooga City Council.
William
Dodge
Principal
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. Downs
President/CEO
of the Eno Transportation Foundation. Former CEO of Amtrak, New
Jersey Commissioner of Transportation and director, National Association
of Homebuilders.
Seth Fearey
Silicon
Valley business executive, 20 years with Hewlett Packard. CEO of
Connected Communities, specializing in communities' development
of information infrastructure.
Richard
C.D. Fleming
An active civic
entrepreneur in business and government. Currently President of
the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association; previously
president of the Greater Denver Chamber of Commerce and HUD executive
William
Fulton
Journalist,
urban planner, commentator and author on urban planning, metropolitan
growth, and economic development. Author; editor of California Planning
and Development Report; contributor to Governing magazine.
John
Stuart Hall*
Professor at
the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University; specialist
in regional governance and university-community linkages. A co-author
of Citistates.
Lenneal
Henderson
Professor 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
Henton**
Founder
of Silicon Valley firm, Collaborative Economics; specialist in regional
economic development strategies involving civic alliances; founder
of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship.
Theodore
Hershberg*
Founder and
Director of the Center for Greater Philadelphia; Professor of Public
Policy at University of Pennsylvania. Advocate for standards in
public education.
William
Hudnut
Former mayor
of Indianapolis, leading that city's renaissance over 16 years.
Author of Cities on the Rebound. Presently senior resident fellow
for public policy at the Urban Land Institute.
Jane
Holtz Kay
Boston-based
urban writer; author of Asphalt Nation and Boston-based urban writer; author of Asphalt Nation and upcoming Last Chance Landscape, on global warming.
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Peter
Katz
Author, 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.
Daniel
Kemmis*
Civic philosopher
and author. Former Montana legislator, Mayor of Missoula, and currently
Director of the multi-state Center for the Rocky Mountain West at
the University of Montana.
Robert
Lang
Director of
the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech in Alexandria, Virginia;
author of Edgeless Cities: Explaining the Elusive Metropolis.
Richard
Louv
Observer and
author on life and community (America II, Childhood's Future,
Last Child in the Woods and others). Columnist for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Alex
Marshall
Author, 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.
Jonathan
Miller
Author of Emerging Trends in Real Estate, the leading commercial real estate industry outlook report
embracing urban futures.
Myron
Orfield
President
of
Ameregis,
creator of reports analyzing
economic-social disparity and inefficient land uses in over 40 U.S.
regions. Former Minnesota State Senator and expert on regional tax-base
sharing.
John
Parr
Director, Alliance
for Regional Stewardship. Principal of CIVIC RESULTS and formerly president of the National
Civic League.
Manuel
Pastor
Co-Director, Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community at the University of California-Santa
Cruz. 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 Austin, Texas.
Charles
Royer
Former 12-year
mayor of Seattle and president of the National League of Cities.
Presently leads the Institute for Community Change..
Samuel
Seskin
Portland-based
transportation and land use specialist.
Expert on transit-oriented development.
William Shutkin
Educator, environmentalist, social entrepreneur and former foundation president.
Beth
Siegel
Founder 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.
William
Stafford*
President,
Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle; former deputy mayor
of Seattle with a specialty in intergovernmental relations. Premier
leader of regional study tours to world citistates.
Marc
A. Weiss
Founder and
leader of the Global Urban Development, a global cities think tank operating in Washington, Prague, Barcelona and other cities. Focused on regionalism, housing and economic development issues
under HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros.
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