Past Participants

The ideas of the SEED® Network, Mission, Principles, and Evaluator have been generated by many people over five years of participatory brainstorming. The following people and organizations have all contributed through involvement at past SEED meetings.

SEED Roundtable Participants - Harvard

Emily Axelrod, executive director of The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (Cambridge, Mass.); Scott Ball, president of the Association for Community Design (Atlanta, Ga.); Bryan Bell, founder and executive director of Design Corps (Raleigh, NC); Barbara Brown, a PhD student and Luce Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin; Brandy Brooks, acting director of the Boston Community Design Resource Center; John Cary, executive director of Public Architecture (San Francisco, Calif.); Nancy Jenner, deputy director of the Boston Society of Architects/AIA; Reed Kroloff, dean of the Tulane University School of Architecture (New Orleans, La.); Steven Lewis, program coordinator within the U.S. General Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect; Sergio Palleroni, associate professor at the UT-Austin School of Architecture; Michael Rios, director The Hamer Center at Penn State University; Mary Rowe, senior urban fellow with the Blue Moon Fund (Charlottesville, Va.); Katie Swenson, executive director of the Charlottesville Community Design Center; Karen Van Lengen, dean of the UVa School of Architecture; Katie Wakeford, Design Corps staff member; JoEllen Wang, AmeriCorps Fellow with Design Corps; Jessica Wendover, Rose Architectural Fellow and the Community Design Director at Urban Ecology (Oakland, Calif.); Teresa Brice-Heames, co-founder and Senior Vice-President of Housing For Mesa (Mesa, Ariz.); Maurice Cox, associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture; Kathy Dorgan, principal of Dorgan Architecture & Planning in (Storrs, Conn.); Phil Freelon, principal of The Freelon Group (Durham, NC); Randy Gragg, architecture and urban design critic for The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.); Stephen Goldsmith, director of the Rose Fellowship Program (Salt Lake City, Utah); Etty Padmodipoetro, director of Urban Design for Stull & Lee (Boston, MA); David Perkes, director of the Jackson Community Design Center (Jackson, Miss.); Dan Pitera, director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center; John Peterson, principal of Peterson Architects (San Francisco, Calif.); Josephine Ramirez, Vice President of Programming & Planning for the Music Center (the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County); Lisa Richmond, a public art manager for the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs; Kennedy Smith, principal and co-founder of the Community Land Use & Economics Group (Arlington, Va.); Bill Traynor, executive director of Lawrence CommunityWorks (Lawrence, Mass.); Sally Young, program director for the Loeb Fellowship (Cambridge, Mass.).

SEED Roundtable Participants - Baltimore

Leslie Berns, an interdisciplinary artist at MICA; Michael Bishop, technology manager at MWMCA (Baltimore, MD); Barbara Brown, a PhD student and Luce Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin; Brandy Brooks, acting director of the Boston Community Design Resource Center; Darryl Crompton, a health care lawyer and senior director of CHA's Covering a Nation (CAN) initiative; Kimberly Dowdell; recent graduate of Cornell’s Architecture School and employee of the U.S. General Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect; Frank Giblin, Director of the Urban Development Program at the U.S. General Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect; Brian Goldstein, Planner at the Urban Development Program of the Urban Development Program at the U.S. General Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect; Toni Griffin, with the Urban Studio; Rolf Haarstad, AIA, Principal of Hord Coplan Macht; Michelle Hartson, with Inner Harbor Partners (Baltimore, MD); Pavlina Ilieva, Associate AIA at Hord Coplan Macht; Meshella Johnson, AIA, NOMA, IIDA, President OBD/DC with Focus on Design; Diane Jones, Soultions Through Understanding, Inc.; Victoria Kaplan, founder of Writing for Change; Gabriel Kroiz, founder and principle of Kroiz Architecture; Fred Lazarus, president of MICA; Kuo Pao Lian, architect at Hord Coplan Macht; Jenna Lewis, U.S. General Services Administration; David Lopez, architect at Hord Coplan Macht; Jayne Matthews, Writer; Carolyn Payne, Operations Specialist for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (Baltimore, MD); Ben Schneider, U.S. General Services Administration; Glenn LaRue Smith, Principal of Glenn Smith Studio, LLC (Baltimore, MD); Katie Swenson, executive director of the Charlottesville Community Design Center; Maurice Cox, associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture; Kathy Dorgan, principal of Dorgan Architecture & Planning in (Storrs, Conn.); Steven Lewis, program coordinator within the U.S. General Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect; John Peterson, principal of Peterson Architects (San Francisco, Calif.).

SEED Roundtable Participants - New Orleans

Peter Aeschbacher, director of design at the Hamer Center at Penn State University; Mariana Amatullo, director of designmatters at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA); Douglas Anderson, director of My House Center for Learning (New Orleans, LA); Lauren Anderson, executive director of Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans; Scott Ball, president of the Association for Community Design (Atlanta, GA); Bryan Bell, executive director of Design Corps (Raleigh, NC); Will Bradshaw, Ph.D. student in city planning and real estate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rachel Breunlin, co-director of the Neighborhood Story Project (New Orleans, LA); Barbara Brown, a PhD student and Luce Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin; David Butler, partner at M. Scott Ball Design (Atlanta, GA); Richard Campanella, assistant director of Environmental Analysis at the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities; Clare Cardinal-Pett, associate professor of architecture at Iowa State University; John Cary, executive director of Public Architecture (San Francisco, CA); Jana Cephas, fellow at Detroit Collaborative Design Center; Cara Mae Cirignano, Americorps VISTA member with Design Corps (Marion, AL); Coleman Coker, founder of buildingstudio (Memphis, TN); Maurice Cox, associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture; Kathy Dorgan, principal of Dorgan Architecture & Planning (Storrs, CT); Kim Dowdell, intern in the Office of the Chief Architect at U.S. General Services Administration and student at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY); Daniel Etheridge, program coordinator at the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities; Reese Fayde, CEO of Living Cities (New York, NY); Gino Gates IV, Gatescom Consultants (Washington DC); Frank Giblin, the Office of the Chief Architect at U.S. General Services Administration (Washington DC); Stephen Goldsmith, director of the Rose Fellowship Program (Salt Lake City, UT); Lance Hosey, ATMO and Just Building Alliance; Clifton James, urban planner-architect at the Urban Design Research Center (New Orleans, LA); Casey Jones, CityWorks; Richard Koshalek, president of Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA); Reed Kroloff, Dean of Tulane University School of Architecture; Alan Lewis, director of Tulane City Center; Steven Lewis, program coordinator within the U.S. General Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect; Lindsay Maki, Gary Lee Partners (Chicago, IL); Ray Manning, Manning Architects (New Orleans, LA); Chris Muskpf, Stoss Landscape Urbanism (Boston, MA); Ashley Nelson, contributing author for The Neighborhood Story Project (New Orleans, LA); Erin O’Brian, Americorps VISTA member with Design Corps (Marion, AL); Sergio Palleroni, associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture; Shaun Patchell, Design Corps fellow (Tallahassee, FL); Casiu Pealer, Reno & Cavanaugh, PLLC (Washington DC); David Perkes, director of the Jackson Community Design Center (Jackson, MS); John Peterson, Loeb fellow and founder of Public Architecture (San Francisco, CA); Geoffrey Piper, AGROS International (Seattle, WA); AnnMarie Polsenberg, professor at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA); Patrick Rhodes, director of Project Locus and professor at Kansas State University School of Architecture (Manhattan, KS); Kathryn Rogers Merlino, professor at the University of Washington School of Architecture; Mary Rowe, senior urban fellow with the Blue Moon Fund (Charlottesville, VA); Matthew Sullivan, AGROS International and environmentalWORKS (Seattle, WA); Katie Swenson, director of the Charlottesville Community Design Center (Charlottesville, VA); Jonathan Tate, buildingstudio (Memphis, TN); Katie Wakeford, designer at Design Corps (Raleigh, NC); JoEllen Wang, Americorps ACCESS member with Design Corps (Raleigh, NC); Jess Wendover, Rose fellow and community design director at Urban Ecology (San Francisco, CA); James Wilson, strategonomics, Patricia Wilson, professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture; Wilbert Young, Nemo Investment and past Mayor of Wilkinsburg, PA; Jeff Barrett, Cristina Rodriguez, Breanna Marsh-Narigon, Rachel Van Nostrand: students at Iowa State University School of Architecture; John Dwyer: student at University of Minnesota; Chris Favela, Wakako Takagi, Roman Wyden: students at Art Center College of Design; Melissa Hill Morrow: student at Louisiana State University.

SEED Roundtable Participants – Austin

Bryan Bell; Brent Brown; Jess. Zimbabwe; Steven Moore, Director, Graduate Program in Sustainable Design, UT-Austin; Barbara Wilson, co- founder of the Austin Community Design and Development Center; Elizabeth Mueller, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, UT- Austin; Tim Bray, Associate Director of the J. McDonald Williams Institute; Sergio Palleroni; Gail Vittori, Center for Maximum Potential Sustainability and US Green Building Council

SEED Roundtable Participants – Dallas

Petrine Adams, Terri Adkisson, Jennifer Africawala, Sumaia Alamoudi, Letha Allen, Curtis Altenhofen, Monte Anderson, Patrick Baugh, Anne Brown, Dorothy Burton, Kent Cagle, Mike Coker, Robert Colburn, Anne Crowther, Adrianna Cueller-Rojas, Emily DeLong, Nichole Deren, Suanne Durham, Mike Eastland, Dan Finnell, Boback Firoozbakht, Rick Fontenot, Donald Gatzke, Alex Gilliam, Brenda Gonzales, Connie Gore, David Green, John Greenan, George Grivon, Rick Guerrero, Rose-May Guignard, Mark Gunderson, John Hennenberger, Jamie Horowitz, Catherine Horsey, Pam Humphrey, Randy Hutcheson, Toni Johnson, Melissa Joseph, Rick Keeler, Dan Kieninger, Jill Kotviss, Mary Jane Ligon, Lorenzo Littles, Karissa Luckett, Cyndy Lutz, Roseane Maitland, John Maitland, David Marquis, Albert Martin, Bud Melton, Anne Melton, Shoby Modjarrad, Anselmo Montemayor, Tony Nikolich, Sergio Palleroni, Judd Pankey, Pastor Vincent Parker, Michael Peguero, David Perkes, John Peterson, Amanda Popken, Paul Ridley, Tania Sabillon, John Schrader, Manuel Serrato, Polly Shields, James Skeeters, Mike Soab, Yvonne Sparks, Judson Stafford, Carlton Standish, Alan Stewart, Laurel Stone, Carol Strain-Burk, Mark Sweeney, Beth Taylor, Christian Walker, Karen Walz, Dorothy Wilson, Adam Wood, Johnice Woods, Tim Yatko


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SEED Roundtable Participants - Harvard Emily Axelrod, executive director of The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (Cambridge, Mass.); Scott Ball, president of the Association for Community Design (Atlanta, Ga.); Bryan Bell, founder and executive director of Design Corps (Raleigh, NC); Barbara Brown, a PhD student and Luce Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin; Brandy Brooks, acting director of the Boston Community Design Resource Center; John Cary, executive director of Public Architecture (San Francisco, Calif.); Nancy Jenner, deputy director of the Boston Society of Architects/AIA; Reed Kroloff, dean of the Tulane University School of Architecture (New Orleans, La.); Steven Lewis, program coordinator within the U.S. General Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect; Sergio Palleroni, associate professor at the UT-Austin School of Architecture; Michael Rios, director The Hamer Center at Penn State University; Mary Rowe, senior urban fellow with the Blue Moon Fund (Charlottesville, Va.); Katie Swenson, executive director of the Charlottesville Community Design Center; Karen Van Lengen, dean of the UVa School of Architecture; Katie Wakeford, Design Corps staff member; JoEllen Wang, AmeriCorps Fellow with Design Corps; Jessica Wendover, Rose Architectural Fellow and the Community Design Director at Urban Ecology (Oakland, Calif.); Teresa Brice-Heames, co-founder and Senior Vice-President of Housing For Mesa (Mesa, Ariz.); Maurice Cox, associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture; Kathy Dorgan, principal of Dorgan Architecture & Planning in (Storrs, Conn.); Phil Freelon, principal of The Freelon Group (Durham, NC); Randy Gragg, architecture and urban design critic for The Oregonian (Portland, Ore.); Stephen Goldsmith, director of the Rose Fellowship Program (Salt Lake City, Utah); Etty Padmodipoetro, director of Urban Design for Stull & Lee (Boston, MA); David Perkes, director of the Jackson Community Design Center (Jackson, Miss.); Dan Pitera, director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center; John Peterson, principal of Peterson Architects (San Francisco, Calif.); Josephine Ramirez, Vice President of Programming & Planning for the Music Center (the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County); Lisa Richmond, a public art manager for the City of Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs; Kennedy Smith, principal and co-founder of the Community Land Use & Economics Group (Arlington, Va.); Bill Traynor, executive director of Lawrence CommunityWorks (Lawrence, Mass.); Sally Young, program director for the Loeb Fellowship (Cambridge, Mass.). SEED Roundtable Participants - Baltimore Leslie Berns, an interdisciplinary artist at MICA; Michael Bishop, technology manager at MWMCA (Baltimore, MD); Barbara Brown, a PhD student and Luce Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin; Brandy Brooks, acting director of the Boston Community Design Resource Center; Darryl Crompton, a health care lawyer and senior director of CHA's Covering a Nation (CAN) initiative; Kimberly Dowdell; recent graduate of Cornell’s Architecture School and employee of the U.S. General Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect; Frank Giblin, Director of the Urban Development Program at the U.S. General Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect; Brian Goldstein, Planner at the Urban Development Program of the Urban Development Program at the U.S. General Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect; Toni Griffin, with the Urban Studio; Rolf Haarstad, AIA, Principal of Hord Coplan Macht; Michelle Hartson, with Inner Harbor Partners (Baltimore, MD); Pavlina Ilieva, Associate AIA at Hord Coplan Macht; Meshella Johnson, AIA, NOMA, IIDA, President OBD/DC with Focus on Design; Diane Jones, Soultions Through Understanding, Inc.; Victoria Kaplan, founder of Writing for Change; Gabriel Kroiz, founder and principle of Kroiz Architecture; Fred Lazarus, president of MICA; Kuo Pao Lian, architect at Hord Coplan Macht; Jenna Lewis, U.S. General Services Administration; David Lopez, architect at Hord Coplan Macht; Jayne Matthews, Writer; Carolyn Payne, Operations Specialist for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (Baltimore, MD); Ben Schneider, U.S. General Services Administration; Glenn LaRue Smith, Principal of Glenn Smith Studio, LLC (Baltimore, MD); Katie Swenson, executive director of the Charlottesville Community Design Center; Maurice Cox, associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture; Kathy Dorgan, principal of Dorgan Architecture & Planning in (Storrs, Conn.); Steven Lewis, program coordinator within the U.S. General Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect; John Peterson, principal of Peterson Architects (San Francisco, Calif.). SEED Roundtable Participants - New Orleans Peter Aeschbacher, director of design at the Hamer Center at Penn State University; Mariana Amatullo, director of designmatters at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA); Douglas Anderson, director of My House Center for Learning (New Orleans, LA); Lauren Anderson, executive director of Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans; Scott Ball, president of the Association for Community Design (Atlanta, GA); Bryan Bell, executive director of Design Corps (Raleigh, NC); Will Bradshaw, Ph.D. student in city planning and real estate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Rachel Breunlin, co-director of the Neighborhood Story Project (New Orleans, LA); Barbara Brown, a PhD student and Luce Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin; David Butler, partner at M. Scott Ball Design (Atlanta, GA); Richard Campanella, assistant director of Environmental Analysis at the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities; Clare Cardinal-Pett, associate professor of architecture at Iowa State University; John Cary, executive director of Public Architecture (San Francisco, CA); Jana Cephas, fellow at Detroit Collaborative Design Center; Cara Mae Cirignano, Americorps VISTA member with Design Corps (Marion, AL); Coleman Coker, founder of buildingstudio (Memphis, TN); Maurice Cox, associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Architecture; Kathy Dorgan, principal of Dorgan Architecture & Planning (Storrs, CT); Kim Dowdell, intern in the Office of the Chief Architect at U.S. General Services Administration and student at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY); Daniel Etheridge, program coordinator at the Center for Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities; Reese Fayde, CEO of Living Cities (New York, NY); Gino Gates IV, Gatescom Consultants (Washington DC); Frank Giblin, the Office of the Chief Architect at U.S. General Services Administration (Washington DC); Stephen Goldsmith, director of the Rose Fellowship Program (Salt Lake City, UT); Lance Hosey, ATMO and Just Building Alliance; Clifton James, urban planner-architect at the Urban Design Research Center (New Orleans, LA); Casey Jones, CityWorks; Richard Koshalek, president of Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA); Reed Kroloff, Dean of Tulane University School of Architecture; Alan Lewis, director of Tulane City Center; Steven Lewis, program coordinator within the U.S. General Services Administration Office of the Chief Architect; Lindsay Maki, Gary Lee Partners (Chicago, IL); Ray Manning, Manning Architects (New Orleans, LA); Chris Muskpf, Stoss Landscape Urbanism (Boston, MA); Ashley Nelson, contributing author for The Neighborhood Story Project (New Orleans, LA); Erin O’Brian, Americorps VISTA member with Design Corps (Marion, AL); Sergio Palleroni, associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture; Shaun Patchell, Design Corps fellow (Tallahassee, FL); Casiu Pealer, Reno & Cavanaugh, PLLC (Washington DC); David Perkes, director of the Jackson Community Design Center (Jackson, MS); John Peterson, Loeb fellow and founder of Public Architecture (San Francisco, CA); Geoffrey Piper, AGROS International (Seattle, WA); AnnMarie Polsenberg, professor at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA); Patrick Rhodes, director of Project Locus and professor at Kansas State University School of Architecture (Manhattan, KS); Kathryn Rogers Merlino, professor at the University of Washington School of Architecture; Mary Rowe, senior urban fellow with the Blue Moon Fund (Charlottesville, VA); Matthew Sullivan, AGROS International and environmentalWORKS (Seattle, WA); Katie Swenson, director of the Charlottesville Community Design Center (Charlottesville, VA); Jonathan Tate, buildingstudio (Memphis, TN); Katie Wakeford, designer at Design Corps (Raleigh, NC); JoEllen Wang, Americorps ACCESS member with Design Corps (Raleigh, NC); Jess Wendover, Rose fellow and community design director at Urban Ecology (San Francisco, CA); James Wilson, strategonomics, Patricia Wilson, professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture; Wilbert Young, Nemo Investment and past Mayor of Wilkinsburg, PA; Jeff Barrett, Cristina Rodriguez, Breanna Marsh-Narigon, Rachel Van Nostrand: students at Iowa State University School of Architecture; John Dwyer: student at University of Minnesota; Chris Favela, Wakako Takagi, Roman Wyden: students at Art Center College of Design; Melissa Hill Morrow: student at Louisiana State University. SEED Roundtable Participants – Austin Bryan Bell; Brent Brown; Jess. Zimbabwe; Steven Moore, Director, Graduate Program in Sustainable Design, UT-Austin; Barbara Wilson, co- founder of the Austin Community Design and Development Center; Elizabeth Mueller, Director, Center for Sustainable Development, UT- Austin; Tim Bray, Associate Director of the J. McDonald Williams Institute; Sergio Palleroni; Gail Vittori, Center for Maximum Potential Sustainability and US Green Building Council SEED Roundtable Participants – Dallas Petrine Adams, Terri Adkisson, Jennifer Africawala, Sumaia Alamoudi, Letha Allen, Curtis Altenhofen, Monte Anderson, Patrick Baugh, Anne Brown, Dorothy Burton, Kent Cagle, Mike Coker, Robert Colburn, Anne Crowther, Adrianna Cueller-Rojas, Emily DeLong, Nichole Deren, Suanne Durham, Mike Eastland, Dan Finnell, Boback Firoozbakht, Rick Fontenot, Donald Gatzke, Alex Gilliam, Brenda Gonzales, Connie Gore, David Green, John Greenan, George Grivon, Rick Guerrero, Rose-May Guignard, Mark Gunderson, John Hennenberger, Jamie Horowitz, Catherine Horsey, Pam Humphrey, Randy Hutcheson, Toni Johnson, Melissa Joseph, Rick Keeler, Dan Kieninger, Jill Kotviss, Mary Jane Ligon, Lorenzo Littles, Karissa Luckett, Cyndy Lutz, Roseane Maitland, John Maitland, David Marquis, Albert Martin, Bud Melton, Anne Melton, Shoby Modjarrad, Anselmo Montemayor, Tony Nikolich, Sergio Palleroni, Judd Pankey, Pastor Vincent Parker, Michael Peguero, David Perkes, John Peterson, Amanda Popken, Paul Ridley, Tania Sabillon, John Schrader, Manuel Serrato, Polly Shields, James Skeeters, Mike Soab, Yvonne Sparks, Judson Stafford, Carlton Standish, Alan Stewart, Laurel Stone, Carol Strain-Burk, Mark Sweeney, Beth Taylor, Christian Walker, Karen Walz, Dorothy Wilson, Adam Wood, Johnice Woods, Tim Yatko

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