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247 Jack Ahern is a professor of landscape architecture and head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Arthur P. Bergeron, Esq., is a former assistant secretary of environmental affairs for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and has a private law practice. Annaliese Bischoff is an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Andrea Cooper is the smart growth coordinator for both the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs and the Office of Coastal Zone Management, and chairs the Low Impact Development Group, a public-private partnership of over seventy-five organizations. Veronica Eady is a senior staff attorney at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Inc. She is also an associate adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law. Robert Forrant is a professor in the Department of Regional Economic and Social Development at University of Massachusetts Lowell. Kurt Gaertner is the director of sustainable development for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. From 1999 to 2003 he was engaged in the implementation of EOEA’s Community Preservation Initiative. Glenn Garber is the associate director of the Center for Rural Massachusetts at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Extension land-use educator, and adjunct faculty in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Priscilla Geigis is the director of state parks and recreation for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. From January 1999 to April 2004, she was director of community preservation at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. Toni Coyne Hall serves as associate deputy for community relations for the Office of Policy Development at the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development. Elisabeth M. Hamin is an associate professor of regional planning in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Brian Howes started the Coastal Systems Group at the Center for Marine Science and Technology at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and is now program director for the School of Marine Science and Technology’s Coastal Systems Program. John Hultgren is currently enrolled at Northeastern University School of Law and worked for the Massachusetts Contributors Executive Office of Environmental Affairs in the area of growth planning. Christian Jacqz has been director of the Office of Geographic and Environmental Information in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs since 1992. Joan Kimball is the director of Riverways Programs, Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game. Zenia Kotval, AICP, is an associate professor of the Urban and Regional Planning Program at Michigan State University. Robert H. Kuehn Jr. was president of Keen Development Corporation and active in the New England real estate industryandcivicgroupsformorethanthirty -fiveyears.Hewas also vice-chair of the Community Preservation Coalition. Kathryn Leahy is director of Massachusetts Audubon Society North Shore Advocacy. Jeff Levine is the director of planning and community development for the Town of Brookline and the former vice-chair of the Regional Transportation Advisory Committee of the Boston Metropolitan Planning Organization. Sharon McGregor recently served as assistant secretary for Biological Conservation and Ecosystem Protection in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. She currently consults for nonprofit organizations on biological conservation. John R. Mullin, FAICP, is the dean of the Graduate School and director of the Center for Economic Development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Jane Pfister is a GIS/Web/graphics specialist for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. From 1999 to 2003 she was the GIS coordinator for EOEA’s Community Preservation Initiative. Robert L. Ryan is an associate professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Linda Silka is a professor in the interdisciplinary Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, directs the Center for Family, Work, and Community, and is special assistant to the provost for community outreach and partnerships at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Mark P. Smith is the director of the Eastern U.S. Freshwater Program for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and previously was the director of water policy and programs at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. Steve Smith is executive director of the Southeastern Regional Planning & Economic Development District, a regional planning agency serving twenty-seven cities and towns in southeastern Massachusetts. Richard Taupier is the associate director of the Environmental Institute and a member of the graduate faculty in Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a former (1984–94) assistant secretary of environmental affairs for...

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