Logan Axelson is a senior transportation planner in the Office of Transit, Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. He focuses on long-range planning and urban design for public transit projects. He works…
Bill Cohen has been a practicing city and regional planner with over 32 years of experience at the municipal and state levels, in addition to the nonprofit sector. He has been on the faculty of Temple University since 2004, where his teaching and…
Fred Conner is a management consultant with over 30 years of leadership experience in planning, building, and maintaining communities in both the private and public sectors. Noteworthy planning projects have included expeditionary military bases,…
Martine Decamp is Deputy Director for the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. In her 20 years as a planner, she has worked with the community, developers, architects, engineers, attorneys, and elected officials in her roles in community planning,…
Ryan Thomas Devlin’s research focuses on urban informality in cities of the Global North.
He is specifically interested in informal placemaking strategies of immigrant groups in U.S. cities, and how planners, urban designers, and public…
Associate Professor and Program Head of Planning & Community Development
Jeffrey P. Doshna is a professional planner, economist and community leader.
He teaches courses in community and economic development, quantitative and qualitative research methods and supervises the graduate planning studio. After a term on the…
Thomas Edinger is a senior transportation planner at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, where he handles major transportation planning tasks, including managing the Congestion Management Process (CMP) for the region.
MCRP Ohio…
David Feldman has worked in housing and community development policy and implementation for over 25 years, in the private and non-profit sectors. His work has included funding and technical assistance to community-based organizations for affordable…
David R. Guinnup is an applied economist and an urban and regional planner with over 40 years of professional experience in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Currently, he teaches the fundamentals of cultural and environmental ecology of…
John Haak is a city planner with 35 years of professional experience with regional, county and municipal-level planning agencies. His expertise includes comprehensive and community planning, economic development, capital programming, urban…
Kyle Hearing is a project manager and senior transportation planner at Foursquare Integrated Transportation Planning, where he focuses on transit service and active transportation planning and analysis. Kyle leverages geographic information systems …
Meredith Johnson specializes in accessible development that utilizes existing space through community empowerment and interdisciplinary thinking. She is the executive director at the East Falls Development Corporation—a non-profit that works in…
Valerie Johnson joined Pathways to Housing PA in 2018, and was promoted to Vice President of Advancement and Social Enterprise in 2024. Prior to that, she was the Director of Advancement for Council for Relationships. She also worked as a…
Adjunct Faculty and Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming
Dr. Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta ("Dr. Matt") is an award-winning scholar, artist and advocate who currently serves as the Director and Curator of Exhibitions and Public Programming at Temple Contemporary gallery. His research and practice…
Dennis Livrone is a retired environmental planner from the Bucks County Planning Commission. For over 35 years, he represented county government on federal, state, regional, county and municipal planning committees, as well as authored/co-authored…
Andrew Meloney, AICP is the Director of Choice Neighborhoods at the Philadelphia Housing Authority, overseeing the implementation and planning of HUD’s public housing and neighborhood revitalization program in Philadelphia. Andrew is passionate…
Ted Mullen is an environmental engineer and planner with 15 years of experience in urban infrastructure planning and design with expertise in urban land development and water and ecological infrastructure. He currently works as a project manager for…
Steve Nelson is a practicing city planner with over 30 years of experience at the municipal and county level, in the non-profit sector and in private practice in Pennsylvania, California and New Jersey. His work has included managing community…
Brian Olszak is a senior planner at the Montgomery County Planning Commission. He produces legal instruments, such as zoning and land development ordinances and similar technical documents; writes subdivision and land development reviews, as…
Nicole Ozdemir is a senior planner at the Philadelphia City Planning Commission (PCPC) with a profound commitment to public service and equitable development. Since joining PCPC in 2014, Nicole has been an advocate for public engagement, working to…
As the director of place-based initiatives for the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity, Samantha Porter is interested in interdisciplinary, community-driven approaches to planning and community development. As a…
Andrew Reid is engaged in cutting-edge economic and community development practice nationally, focusing on major social and economic challenges, such as gentrification, equity, inclusive growth, food access, housing, infrastructure, access to…
Rick Sauer has 35 years of experience in the non-profit housing and community development field. For the past 24 years, he has served as executive director of the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations (PACDC), a membership…
Eleanor Sharpe is the executive director at the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. She serves in a dual capacity as head of the planning commission and deputy to the director of the city's Department of Planning and Development, responsible for…
Jeremy Stoff is community planner for the Bucks County Planning Commission where he serves in a variety of planning roles, including comprehensive planning, downtown revitalization, and stormwater management planning. In his role, he also uses…
Ashley Wagner works creatively in the nonprofit and small business fields as a project manager and communications director. In previous community development work, she managed a small business alliance and directed community arts projects and…
Jonathan Wetstein, MPS is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University’s Community and Economic Development Graduate Program and carries a long-standing commitment to urban revitalization-related project through the lens of food systems. His…
Emily Wyner is an organizational development practitioner with roots in racial and economic justice movements, public health, and cooperatives and other membership organizations. She is currently a senior associate at KONU, where she designs and…
