Dennis Andrejko, FAIA, SDAT Team Leader
Dennis Andrejko, FAIA, is principal of Andrejko + Associates and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. During 1990-1999 he was Interim Chair and Director of Architecture; heading the School of Architecture and Planning's Department of Architecture, consisting of both undergraduate (pre-professional) and graduate (professional) degree programs servicing over 400 students. His primary teaching responsibilities include upper division and graduate level design studios; and energy, environment and technology courses – focusing on sustainable and passive solar design. At the School of Architecture and Planning he serves as the AIAS Faculty Advisor and the IDP Education Coordinator. He received a Bachelor of Architecture, cum laude, at Arizona State University and a Master of Architecture in Advanced Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT he was part of the research group that developed transparent insulation (Heat Mirror), now commonly used in window applications. He is a registered architect in New York, California and Arizona and has extensive passive solar and sustainable design experience, with projects in over 20 states. He is the recipient of the Niagara Region Pathfinder Award (2007), the AIA Buffalo/Western New York Distinguished Service Award, and the AIA New York State President’s Award (2008). He currently serves on the National Board of the American Institute of Architects.

Kaid Benfield – Land Use and Sustainability
F. Kaid Benfield is director of NRDC's smart growth program, which supports innovative solutions to sprawling land development and its associated environmental impacts. Kaid is a founder and former vice chair of Smart Growth America, a national coalition working on smarter land development policy. He is also a founder and leader of LEED for Neighborhood Development, a national program to evaluate and certify environmentally superior residential, commercial, and mixed-use development. His numerous publications include Solving Sprawl (2001) and Once There Were Greenfields (1999), NRDC's definitive books about smart growth and sprawl, and Smart Growth in a Changing World (2007), published by the American Planning Association. He was recently voted one of the "top 100 urban thinkers" in an online poll hosted by the planning site Planetizen.com. Kaid writes about community, development, and the environment on NRDC’s Switchboard.

Paul Fontaine – Urban Design and Land Use
Paul Fontaine is the founder and owner of Fontaine Urban Design, an urban design firm that specializes in civic revitalization, brownfield redevelopment and grant writing assistance. Paul started working as an urban designer and planner 20 years ago after obtaining a MS in Urban and Regional Planning from Columbia University. He has worked in both the private and public sectors of planning, including stints as a county and township planner, an urban design professor and owner of a small urban design firm, and as a planner for JJR’s Ann Arbor office. Paul lives in Ann Arbor with his amazing wife and the all important cat. In his off time, he is either looking for a great story, whether it's from a book, movie, play, opera or good friends, or getting schooled at the YMCA's basketball courts by Generation Next.

Don Edwards – Consensus Building and Civic Engagement
Don Edwards is Justice and Sustainability's founder, principal and CEO. In that capacity, he designs, facilitates, mediates and documents land use decision-making processes for federal, municipal and neighborhood revitalization clients throughout the Unites States, including the United Nations, HUD, EPA, NPS and local planning and transportation departments. Civically active, Don serves as a member of the Sustainability External Advisory Council of The Dow Chemical Company, the Board of Directors of the Casey Trees Endowment and the Casey Trees Farm, the Board of Directors of the Humanities Council of the District of Columbia and the Board of Directors of the George Washington Chapter of Lambda Alpha International. Furthermore, Don is a faculty member of the DC Neighborhood College, a program of the George Washington University’s Center for Excellence in Public Leadership. Edwards attended Duke University as an undergraduate (1973) and graduate school at Yale University (1986).

Judy Shaw – Brownfield Redevelopment
Dr. Judy Shaw, Ph.D., PP, AICP is Senior Research Associate for the National Center for Neighborhood & Brownfield Redevelopment at the E. J. Bloustein School of Planning & Public Policy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is jointly appointed to the Rutgers Center for Green Building, with a diverse research portfolio including the Sustainable Raritan River Initiative, the GIS Lead-Safe Housing Directory, the NJ Green Building Manual, NJ Urban Transit Hubs and curriculum development for transportation security and vulnerability for the Department of Homeland Security. Prior to joining the Center, she spent twenty years in public service with the New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Community Affairs (DCA). Her leadership positions included Deputy Director of the DCA Office of Neighborhood Empowerment, Urban Coordinator for DEP, and the founding Administrator of DEP Office of Brownfield Reuse. In 2004, she led the Public Participation in Site Remediation Task Force to create both legislation and ensuing regulations on public notification for remediation cases A graduate from Indiana University (Bloomington), Dr. Shaw holds a Masters Degree from the University of Michigan in Community Development and a Doctorate from Rutgers' Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. She is active in the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association and serves on her county Agricultural Development Board and her municipal planning board in Moorestown, New Jersey.

Carletta Singleton – Transportation
Ms. Singleton serves as Managing Principal and President of Singleton Consulting Group, LLC located in Birmingham, Alabama. Ms. Singleton has over 20 years of multi-discipline planning experience in project management, program development, public involvement, comprehensive and land use planning, regional planning, transportation planning, public transit plans, multi-modal corridor plans, corridor redevelopment plans, economic and community development including redevelopment and revitalization plans. During her career, she has held professional positions in the private sector as well as local and regional governments. She served as a comprehensive planner for the City of Beaumont, Texas, responsible for preparation and implementation of the city’s comprehensive plan including population, housing and demographic analysis, land use, environmental analysis, downtown economic development, corridor redevelopment plans and capital improvement program. Additionally, she has extensive experience in developing comprehensive transportation plans, public transportation as well as developing planning programs to implement federally mandated transportation and public transit planning requirements i.e. New Starts and Small Starts Program, Comprehensive Transit Development Plans, Birmingham Regional Transit Corridor Plan, 20-year Long-range Transportation Plans (multi-modal) and Transportation Improvement Programs (TIP).

Abe Farkas – Economic Development and Public-Private Partnerships
Abe Farkas is the development services director with ECONorthwest. Farkas has nearly three decades of experience in structuring successful public-private partnerships that have improved urban neighborhoods, business districts, and university environments. Farkas is the former Development Director for the Portland Development Commission; Planning and Development Director for the City of Eugene, OR; Economic Development Manager for the City of Seattle; Director of Community Development and Planning for the City of Fort Wayne, IN; and Assistant Professor of Housing and Public Policy at the University of Tennessee. Most recently Farkas was President of the Farkas Group, a development services company in Portland, OR. Several mixed-use, public-private partnerships projects, which Farkas helped structure, have been transit-oriented developments, achieved LEED certification (silver to platinum) for sustainability, and were recipients of regional or national awards.