Leo Alvarez Principal EDAW Mr. Alvarez has been practicing landscape architecture, urban design, and architecture for over 18 years. His experience includes successfully completing a wide variety of project types including urban design plans, transportation facilities, educational environments, healthcare facilities, commercial projects, and historic preservation efforts. His projects have been published and reviewed in a number of venues and he has received design awards for his creative and built work. In addition to his accomplishments in the professional practice arena, Mr. Alvarez has been actively involved in academia for over 18 years with Florida International University and the University of Georgia. He recently joined EDAW.

Joe Brown CEO/President EDAW As President/CEO and a principal of the firm, Joe Brown has directed numerous EDAW projects throughout the United States and worldwide. He is an experienced planner and landscape architect with particular strengths in new community planning, urban planning and redevelopment, community revitalization, historic and cultural design, and the issues confronting areas of rapid growth and development. Mr. Brown has been an aggressive voice in his profession’s move toward realizing broader collaboration among disciplines, greater professional visibility and outreach, and being involved early on in the strategic resolution of diverse land and community-based challenges. As part of his commitment to the fusion of sustainable resource management with enduring and distinguished physical design, and as a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, he is also a founder of the CEO Roundtable, a forum of leaders within the profession, brought together to offer national and international depth to the leadership of the ASLA.

Renee Charland SSP Program Director EDAW Renee Charland, Firmwide Human Resources Programs Manger, is EDAW’s Summer Student Liaison. She handles the program’s university contacts, applications, student communications and logistics each year. When not working on the SSP she is responsible for Firmwide recruiting, titling, performance reviews, HR surveys and leading the moral committee. Renee is also EDAW’s Equal Employment Coordinator. After earning a degree in Agronomy she began a 16-year career in landscape maintenance, becoming the operations manager for the countries fifth largest interior & exterior landscape company.

Tim Delorm Principal EDAW Tim Delorm is the Vice President and Principal for EDAW’s New York area office. Mr. Delorm is a registered landscape architect with a broad range of experience, which includes urban, suburban and rural projects for commercial, institutional, corporate and public sector clients across a broad array of markets. Areas of specialization include Urban Planning & Design, Development Feasibility Analysis and Landscape Architectural Design. He is a former Councilman of the Borough of Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

Mike Downs Senior Social Scientist EDAW Dr. Mike Downs has more than 19 years experience as a senior social scientist and project manager on complex environmental projects throughout the United States. He has managed socioeconomic studies for private and public agency projects related to forestry, fisheries, offshore oil development, petroleum pipelines, and high-level nuclear waste repositories in various locations of the United States and in the Caribbean. With a specialized expertise in ethnographic research and social impact assessment methodologies, he has provided expert-witness testimony regarding impacts to minority and low-income populations from a proposed petroleum pipeline transiting the City of Los Angeles, and on social and public-safety issues related to the Exxon Valdez oil spill and cleanup.

Liz Drake 2002 SSP Co-Project Manager EDAW Liz Drake’s past experience includes projects in land use and planning for the City of Marietta, Georgia, urban design research at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and municipal administration for the City of Harper Woods, Michigan.

Barbara Faga Chair of the Board/Principal EDAW Barbara Faga is chair of the board of EDAW, an environmental, economic, planning and design firm with over 650 employees worldwide. She has served as a board member of several public/private boards and retail associations, has facilitated numerous public meetings and is a frequent speaker on urban issues for professional associations, public agencies, and universities. She is a planner and landscape architect with more than 25 years of experience emphasizing downtown plans, master planning, site planning, construction and recreation planning.

Cesar Garcia-Pons 2002 SSP Co-Project Manager EDAW Cesar Garcia-Pons is an urban designer specializing in community revitalization and redevelopment of existing neighborhoods. He has more than ten years of experience emphasizing downtown planning, master planning, site planning, corridor studies and transmission line routing studies.

Todd Hill Principal EDAW Todd Hill is a registered landscape architect and land planner with 14 years of experience working in 3 different EDAW offices. His background includes project work for both public agencies and private-sector clients including establishing a vision, theme and concept for projects, large scale community and town planning, master planning of downtown districts, design of public realm urban spaces, resorts, recreation and entertainment projects. He has led many project teams in the preparation of landscape architectural drawings that arise from master plans, through detailed construction documentation and on-site construction administration. Mr. Hill has extensive experience with the public participation process and public speaking in presentation of design and planning concepts.

Bob Pell Regional Director - East/Principal EDAW Bob Pell is an urban and economic development planner. He has considerable experience in industrial, commercial and mixed-use development from the perspective of private developer and public sector official. Formerly with the London office where he led EDAW’s European operation and was responsible for many international projects, Bob is now in the Alexandria office and leads the East Coast offices. He serves on the board of EDAW, Inc. and is responsible for leading the expansion of EDAW’s economic work internationally. With a specialization in land reuse, he frequently advises public sector agencies on policy, strategy and alternative schemes for project implementation.

Deana Swetlik 2001 SSP Co-Project Manager EDAW Deana was the Co-Project Manager for the 2001 SSP in Denver. Her background as both architect and planner allows for keen insight into the collaboration of planning issues with building scale and character. Her initial training as an architect spawned further interest in the issues of urban decay, sporadic growth and the overall need for urban design as an integral part of the development process. Deana has worked on a broad range of project types, including: land use plans, zoning ordinances, new neighborhood plans, revitalization plans, district guidelines, streetscape projects, site development, park plans and bikeway planning. Experience in both the private and public sector provides Ms. Swetlik with a clear understanding of how projects are taken from conceptual design through permitting and construction.

Jason Uyeda 2002 SSP Principal-in-Charge EDAW Jason Uyeda's experience combines training in landscape architecture and international business with professional practice that has emphasized land planning and resort development. He has worked with numerous real estate development teams on a variety of projects. His project management responsibilities included several large-scale resort projects in Southwestern Florida and the Caribbean. Other responsibilities involved land planning, environmental permitting, client relations and financial monitoring of large-scale urban revitalization and redevelopment projects in Florida and the island of Aruba, N.A. Additionally, in a management position with Hilton Resorts, Hawaii, Mr. Uyeda identified development opportunities, developed strategic plans and was responsible for the permitting of resort projects.