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Bloustein Online Continuing Education Program (BOCEP)
Brent Barnes, AICP/PP
Director of Transportation Systems Planning and Research, New Jersey Department of Transportation
Teaches: New Jersey Planning Law
Brent C. Barnes, AICP, PP is the Director of Transportation Systems Planning and Research for the New Jersey Department of Transportation. Prior to coming to NJDOT, Mr. Barnes was the Director of Business Planning at NJ Transit Corporation. His 30-year planning career also includes work in municipal and state government, environmental and economic consulting, school facilities construction, and as a housing developer.
Mr. Barnes holds a Bachelors Degree in Urban Planning from Cal Poly University, Pomona and a Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of La Verne, both in California.
He is a New Jersey licensed Professional Planner <<PP>>, a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners <<AICP>>, Immediate Past President of the New Jersey Chapter of APA, Chair of APA’s Chapter Presidents Council, and a Professional Member of the World Future Society. He wrote and published the first edition of The Complete Guide to Planning in New Jersey.
Deborah L. Brett, AICP
Principal, Deborah L. Brett & Associates
Teaches: Developer's Toolbox: Housing Market Analysis and Developer's Toolbox: Retail Market Analysis
Deborah Brett has been a real estate consultant and market analyst since 1973. Much of her practice is devoted to housing trends, including monitoring changing demographics and consumer preferences affecting both demand and affordability. She conducts market studies and provides development recommendations for a wide range of residential and commercial properties, including affordable and market-rate apartments, condominiums, retail centers, neighborhood business districts, and downtowns. In 1992, she established an independent consulting practice in the Princeton, NJ area <<Deborah L. Brett & Associates>>, where her clients include developers, lenders, planning and design firms, non-profits, and government agencies at all levels. Previously, she served as senior vice president and national consulting director for Real Estate Research Corporation in Chicago.
Debbie has been widely published in real estate business periodicals. She is a regular contributor to books published by ULI, of which she has been a member since 1979. Debbie is also a member of the American Planning Association, and holds the AICP designation as a certified planner. She was elected to Lambda Alpha, the international real estate and land economics honorary society, in 1990. She holds a master's degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Nicholas D’Ambrosio
Teaches: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
Currently an adjunct professor of GIS at Seton Hall University of South Orange, New Jersey, Nick holds numerous certifications in GIS and GPS hardware and software including EPA Watershed Management, GPS Mapping & GIS Data Collection with Terrasync and TSCe Pathfinder PRO-XR and GEO-CE, Trimble GPS Mapping with TerraSync Professional & Pathfinder Office, ArcGIS 8.1 & ArcView 8.3, and Visual Basic 6 Programming Language. Nick also holds an honorary seat on the South Orange Environmental Commission for his joint work alongside the Rahway River Commission.
Christopher Earley
Housing Projects Coordinator, Department of Housing and Community Development, Washington, D.C.
Teaches: Developer’s Toolbox: Pro Formas; Affordable Housing Strategies
Christopher Earley underwrites and provides strategic advisory recommendations for multifamily, residential/retail, special needs and community facility development projects across the District of Columbia. In addition, Mr. Earley is the Principal of EB Advisors LLC, a consulting practice that specializes in strategic planning, underwriting, investment decision analysis & valuation, funding application reviews, market studies and other real estate services.
Mr. Earley received his Bachelor’s of Business Administration in Finance from Morehouse College in 1995 and his Master’s of Business Administration in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. A member of the Urban Land Institute, Mr. Earley has over 10 years of finance and real estate experience in both the public and private sectors.
Lee Edgecombe
Principal, The Edgecombe Group, Hyattsville, Maryland
Teaches: Introduction to New Urbanism; Site Planning Analysis
Leland Edgecombe, AICP, AIA, is the principal of The Edgecombe Group, Inc., a consulting Architectural, Landscape Architectural, and Urban Design Studio located in Hyattsville, MD. He has written various articles published by the American Planning Association’s, Urban Design and Preservation Division focusing on Defensible Space Design and Anti-Terror mechanisms. His professional experience involves defensible space design for military installations, public schools, public housing authorities, inner-city redevelopment programs, various governmental agencies, and utility companies.
Frank Felder
Director, Center for Energy, Economic and Environmental Policy, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
Teaches: Introduction to Energy Planning
Frank Felder conducts research and teaches in the areas of energy policy and planning. He has published widely in professional and academic journals on electric wholesale market design, reliability, transmission planning, market power, and rate design issues. He serves as a reviewer for several academic journals, including The Energy Journal and the IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. In addition to his academic work, he has consulted to a wide variety of electric industry clients and testified before several public utility commissions and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on selected restructuring issues. He has conducted reliability analyses of distributed resources such as fuel cells and diesel generators, reviewed retail access policies in general and in the context of distributed generation, and worked on wholesale market designs in New England, New York, and PJM including policies to accommodate price-responsive load and distributed resources in wholesale markets.
Before joining the Bloustein School faculty, Felder was an assistant professor of Management at the Manhattan College School of Business. He completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, served as a nuclear engineer and submarine officer in the U.S. Navy, and earned masters and doctoral degrees from MIT in Technology, Management and Policy.
Dawn Jourdan
Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Teaches: Environmental Planning Law, Nuts and Bolts of Ordinance Drafting, Youth Participation, Historic Preservation Law
Dawn Jourdan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. She holds a B.S. in urban affairs and theatre arts from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, a joint degree in urban planning and law from the University of Kansas, and a Ph.D. in urban planning from Florida State University. Dawn's research interests include: youth participation in planning processes; historic preservation; and the ways in which U.S. legal structure effect planning policy and those governed by it. She provides legal assistance to the amicus committee of the American Planning Association and is a faculty fellow of the TAMU's Centers for Historic Preservation and Hazards Center. At Texas A&M, Ms. Jourdan teaches Introduction to Urban Planning; Land Use Law and Legislation; Historic Preservation Law; Land Development Law; and Planning History and Theory. Prior to joining Texas A & M, Dawn worked as an advocate for growth management in Florida on behalf of 1000 Friends and Florida. In addition, she was employed as an associate with the Chicago office of Holland & Knight LLP where she assisted with the legal representation of numerous municipal clients in the Chicagoland area.
Robert A. Kull, AICP/PP
Independent Consultant
Teaches: Professional's Writing Studio I and II; Long-Range Planning
Robert Kull is an award-winning planner who had his own consulting firm, Planygy and was the Regional Planning Coordinator for the Burlington County Department of Economic Development and Regional Planning. Before that, Bob was an Assistant Director for Research/Comprehensive Planning at the New Jersey State Department of Community Affairs. Bob also is a coach in The Leading Institute’s Leading from the Middle program.
Karen Lowrie
Project Director, National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Development
Teaches: Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment
Karen Lowrie, Ph.D. has served as a Program Associate for the National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment since its founding. She manages projects associated with revitalizing distressed urban neighborhoods, including building local capacity for physical and social revitalization, addressing community health concerns, and developing brownfields training for community-based organizations. She has been a co-lead researcher on past studies focusing on land use issues at nuclear weapons sites, economic impacts of brownfields sites, mass media coverage of brownfields, and conversion of brownfields to parks, among others. She is the Managing Editor of the journal Risk Analysis. She also teaches traditional and online classes in land use planning, urban neighborhood redevelopment and environmental planning and has authored numerous articles in popular and peer-reviewed publications.
Karen Phillips
New York City Planning Commissioner and independent consultant
Teaches: Strategic Planning and Implementation
As a member of the New York City Planning Commission, Karen Phillips participates in decisions that affect planning and zoning throughout New York City. She was appointed to the Commission in 2002. Before joining the Commission, Ms. Phillips was one of the founders and the CEO of the Abyssinian Development Corporation <<ADC>>, one of the most successful community development organizations in New York. ADC was responsible for generating more than $200 million in investment in the Harlem community of Manhattan. Karen also provides consulting in community development to planning and development firms. She is active in a number of organizations. She is on the Coordinating Committee of New York 2050, which is working to create a shared vision for the future of New York City. She is also on the board of, and a trainer for, The Leading Institute, a leadership development program for mid-career professionals in urban planning and community development.
David Glynn Roberts, AICP/PP, CLA
Principal and Vice President, Schoor DePalma Inc.
Teaches: Redevelopment Law and Legal Strategies
David Roberts is a licensed professional planner and certified landscape architect in New Jersey and a registered landscape architect in Pennsylvania and New York, with 24 years of experience in the public and private sectors. Born and raised in New Jersey, Dave has also been educated at the State’s University, receiving his Bachelors of Science in Environmental Planning and Design from Cook College in 1978, coming back to complete the Landscape Architecture Progam in 1979 and transitioning to the Graduate School <<now the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy>> from which he graduated with a Masters Of City and Regional Planning Degree in 1981.
Dave is a Principal and Vice President with the firm of Schoor DePalma, where he provides planning and landscape architectural services to numerous municipalities and a variety of private clients. He specializes in redevelopment and economic development strategic planning and also created and serves as instructor of the Principles of Redevelopment course that is required of redevelopment agency commissioners and executive directors as part of the mandatory training program of the NJDCA. He recently co-authored The Redevelopment Handbook, A Guide for Rebuilding New Jersey’s Communities.
Dave has been active in the New Jersey Chapters of both the American Planning Association, serving as its President from 1993 to 1997, and the American Society of Landscape Architects, serving as its President in 2003-04.
L. Nicolas Ronderos
Senior Planner, Regional Plan Association
Teaches: Form-based Zoning, Transit-Oriented Development, Design Studio
L. Nicolas Ronderos is Senior Planner for Community Development at Regional Plan Association <<RPA>>. His work focuses on the interrelation between transportation, land use and real estate. Bringing together a regional perspective with local planning knowledge and development expertise has enabled him to fashion solutions for communities big and small. At the center of this juncture zoning plays an important role: it relates potential growth, actual capacity and smart development. As land use and zoning specialist for RPA, Nicolas is charged with analyzing municipalities existing codes to assess their design performance and real estate implications, giving public testimony and evaluation of zoning actions and helping shape new language to guide development. RPA works in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Metropolitan Area and this has allowed him to work in different types of communities from New York City to the suburban fringe. Nicolas holds a B.A. in Anthropology with a minor in History of Technology from Los Andes University and a Masters of Science in Urban Policy Analysis and Management from The New School University. He is co-chair of the Planners for Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Committee of the American Planning Association in the New York Metro Chapter.
Leonardo Vazquez, AICP/PP
Instructor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Director, Professional Development Institute
Teaches: Leadership Skills for Planners, Alliance and Partnership Building, Strategic Planning and Implementation, Effective Client Relations, Cultural Competency
Leonardo Vazquez is a licensed and credentialed planner who specializes in community development, economic development, management and alliance building. He also has expertise in strategic communications and nonprofit management. He is the principal author of “Lagging Behind: Ethnic Diversity in the Planning Profession in the APA New York Metro Chapter Area,” and several other reports on diversity in the profession. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a licensed Professional Planner in New Jersey. In addtition to his planning work, he created and edited the Milano Nonprofit Management Knowledge Hub and the Milano MiX, two online guides for managers in the nonprofit sector. He also directs APA/LeadershipPlenty, a training and coaching program for mid-career professionals in urban planning and community development. Prior to joining Bloustein, he was the Manager of Online Communications at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at New School University. There he developed the school’s online education initiatives, pioneered different approaches to online learning, influenced the use of online tools for project management, and redesigned the school’s website.
Leo received a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1989 and a Master of Planning and Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California in 1996. He holds a New Jersey Professional Planner license and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Jennifer L. Zorn, AICP/PP
Teaches: Environmental Planning and New Jersey Planning Law
Jennifer L. Zorn, AICP/PP, has been providing professional environmental services to clients for over 16 years for public and private projects throughout NJ. These projects have included major transportation, planning, and infrastructure initiatives, as well as residential, commercial and industrial developments. She currently provides consulting services and in-house training to engineering and planning firms. Jennifer is an expert in NJ’s land use regulations and policies and is an accomplished educator in the field of regulatory compliance. She is a regular instructor for the NJPP exam review course held by NJAPA. Additionally, she served as the Editor-in-Chief for the 2nd Edition of the Complete Guide to Planning in New Jersey – A Compendium of Planning Law, Regulation and Policy. She is currently President/Owner of Zorn Consulting, LLC located in Morristown, NJ.
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