Breakout Speakers M - Z
Keynote Speakers | Breakout A-L | Breakout M-Z | Listed in alphabetical order.
Timothy L. McMahan
Timothy McMahan is a partner and shareholder with Stoel Rives LLP. He practices in the areas of land use, real estate development, environmental, and municipal law. He has extensive experience in representing energy facility developers, property owners and municipal clients in Washington and Oregon focusing on permitting utility and energy facilities to include pipelines, natural gas generation and wind energy facilities, as well as commercial and industrial facilities. Timothy represents energy facility developers in Washington and Oregon, including projects filed with the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council (EFSC) and the Washington Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC). Timothy led the permitting efforts for FPL Energy’s Stateline Wind Energy Facility (300-plus MW, Walla Walla County), the RES North America Hopkins Ridge Wind Energy Facility (350 MW, Columbia County and many others as well as pending projects in Washington and Oregon.
Jeannie Renne-Malone, LEED® AP
Jeannie Renne-Malone is HDR’s National Program Manager for Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Management Services. She has extensive experience collaborating with local and federal government officials, NGOs, private industry and technical institutions to analyze technology options that address environmental and energy issues. She has developed climate action plans and GHG emission reduction programs to help cities and organizations incorporate sustainable measures into their long and short term planning. Jeannie calculates carbon footprints for conferences and offsets the carbon impacts through reputable retail carbon offset providers. She has conducted numerous sustainability workshops throughout the United States and has presented at a dozen national conferences focused on reducing GHG emissions in the solid waste, transportation and energy sectors. She has also organized several high-level climate change policy meetings throughout the world to promote the exchange of experiences and tools to assess the benefits of emission reduction strategies on health, the economy and the environment.
Pete Marshall, AICP
Pete Marshall retired in 2003, but was actively involved in planning projects throughout the western U.S. for several decades before that. He led the advance planning section in Seattle's Department of Community Development, 1968-72. He managed planning and environmental projects for two large consulting firms from 1972-86 (Stevens, Thompson & Runyan, Inc. and Kramer Chin & Mayo, Inc.). He is a charter member of the APA and AICP. Pete was president of the Washington Chapter AIP/APA from 1975-76.
Nelda Matheny
Nelda Matheny is president of HortScience, Inc. in Pleasanton, CA, a horticultural, arboricultural and urban forestry consulting firm that she started in 1983. She and her partner, Jim Clark, have authored many articles and four books together, including “A Photographic Guide to Hazard Evaluation in Urban Areas and Trees and Development”. Their most recent publication is the “Municipal Specialist Study Guide”. Nelda spends much of her time inspecting trees and trying to understand how and why they fail. She is interested in helping arborists enhance public safety while managing healthy, structurally stable trees.
James J. Maul, RG
James Maul is President/Principal and Hydrogeologist for Maul Foster Alongi. He has over 25 years of experience providing consulting services including directing projects for industrial and municipal clients involving property transfer, redevelopment, site investigation, site characterization, groundwater and corrective-action studies, and corrective-action design for the high-tech wood-treating, chemical-manufacturing, aluminum, chemical-storage, solid-waste, and forest-products industries. James has managed projects in various stages of remedial action, from design of groundwater and soil cleanup programs to their implementation, and projects under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as well as state cleanup programs. He has extensive experience in negotiating on behalf of clients with regulatory agencies at the federal and state levels. He is a licensed Geologist and Hydrogeologist.
John Means
John Means is the Brownfields Program Planner for the Washington State Department of Ecology. He joined the Department of Ecology Toxics Cleanup Program in 2006, where he has been responsible for Brownfields policy and program development. He manages the EPA State and Tribal Response Program (Brownfields) grant program. John brings a strong interdisciplinary perspective to his work that emphasizes the integration of remediation and reuse planning within the local ecological, social and economic context. He has over 18 years of project management experience in the private, public and non-profit sectors with a concentration in freshwater habitat restoration. He holds a Masters degree in environmental studies with focus on Brownfields Policy and Sustainable Development.
Lynn Miranda, AICP
Lynn Miranda is a land use and transportation planner with 20 years of experience in both the public and private sectors. Lynn is currently a Senior Planner with the City of Tukwila where she manages their urban center planning efforts. During the past two years, Lynn has been a Co-Chair of the APA-Washington Chapter’s “Kids in Planning” Task Force.
Deborah Munkberg, AICP
Deborah Munkberg has 25 years of experience in environmental assessments, comprehensive planning, growth management planning, public policy analysis, and public involvement programs. With expertise in environmental review under Washington State SEPA Rules and growth management planning under the Washington Growth Management Act, Deborah serves as practice leader for Pacific Northwest planning and SEPA environmental review services. She has lead and conducted technical analyses for stand-alone SEPA review of projects and programs and joint NEPA/SEPA environmental review projects. In her capacity as lead for planning services, Deborah has lead comprehensive plan and regulatory updates, visioning exercises, alternative futures development and refinement, and a variety of specialized planning studies. As part of these planning studies, Deborah routinely works with counties and cities to conduct joint analyses and reconcile diverse and conflicting needs to achieve shared goals. Deborah received her Master of Planning degree from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota in 1984 and her B.A. in urban planning from the University of Washington in 1980.
Rick Orth, Ph.D.
Rick Orth, Ph.D. joined PNNL in 1992. During his career at PNNL, Rick has been involved in process development activities both at the technical and project management levels. More specifically, he has been involved with the development of processes for the pretreatment (enzymatic and acid/heat treatment) and subsequent separations of agricultural by-products to produce value-added chemicals. These activities include processes for the recovery of value-added chemicals from wheat mill feed and corn fiber. Other activities have included heat treatment of biosludge, hydrothermal treatment of organic-laden wastewater and hydrothermal treatment for the precipitation of radionuclides from radioactive wastewater. Rick is currently managing several projects and is serving as Group Manager for the Chemical and Biological Processes Development Group. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 1988 and his M.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1985, both from Washington State University, and earned his B.S. in Biology from the University of Washington in 1981.
Jon Pascal, PE, PTOE
Jon Pascal is an Associate Principal at the Transpo Group. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the States of Washington and Idaho and also is certified as a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer by the Institute of Transportation Engineers. His career spans over ten years and includes both public sector and private sector work. He helps direct Transpo’s planning group that provides transportation planning and engineering consulting services for public sector clients throughout the Pacific Northwest. He focuses on the requirements of the Washington State Growth Management Act and has prepared numerous transportation elements, concurrency programs, and impact fee programs for cities and counties in Washington State. He also leads other various transportation related projects such as subarea studies, corridor studies, development of travel demand models, financing programs, and multi-modal transportation plans. Jon earned a Bachelor of Science in Forestry and a Master of Science in Engineering (with a focus on transportation and urban planning) at the University of Washington. He is currently chair of the City of Kirkland’s Transportation Commission advising City Council on transportation related issues.
Larry Peterson
Larry Peterson has served as the Director of Planning Development for the Port of Kennewick since fall of 2004. During this period the Port has constructed multiple projects on Clover Island, initiated redevelopment efforts within the Downtown Kennewick area, facilitated private sector construction of 375,000+ sq. ft. of new office, retail and warehouse buildings resulting in 525+ new or relocated jobs and resolved a regional transportation issue, the future of the Vista Field Airport. Larry was the lead on ambitious Clover Island projects such as the $9 million Marina Reconstruction, the $1 million Lighthouse & Gateway and the ongoing Shoreline Enhancement. These projects involved coordination and permitting efforts with the City of Kennewick, the State Departments of Fish & Wildlife and Ecology, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Marine Fisheries Service. Larry is happy to share the challenges, frustrations and ultimately the success the Port has experienced. Prior to the Port of Kennewick he worked in the City of Pasco Community Development Department from 1990 to 2004. During this period the city was the fastest growing community within the State, which yielded exposure to many challenges and issues. Larry was directly involved with the City’s Comprehensive Planning process following the adoption of the Growth Management Act as well as the amendment of the zoning, subdivision and sign regulations and the evolution of the City’s overall philosophy towards development. Completing Eastern Washington University’s Urban & Regional Planning program in 1990 provided the initial experience to embark on a journey into the planning profession.
Lisa Petterson, AIA, LEED® AP, NCARB
Lisa Petterson is a Project Manager, Project Architect, and Associate with SERA Architects in Portland, Oregon. She has a broad range of design, presentation, programming, documentation and construction administration experience, gained while working at firms in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Eugene and Portland, Oregon. Her 18 + year architectural career spans a mixture of both private and public projects that range from museum design to multi-family housing. She is also an experienced Lighting Designer, with an expertise in the use of natural lighting. She participated in the Daylighting studies for several major museums, including the new Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Weisman Museum of Art in Minneapolis. She has taught lighting design courses both at University of Oregon and at the Boston Architectural Center. Recent projects include lighting design for Forks Aquatic Center, Western Mennonite School, First Congregational Church, the Rose House, and SERA’s own office. Lisa was the Project Architect/Manager for the recently completed Chapel and Performing Arts Center for Corban College in Salem, Oregon and also was in charge of lighting design for this facility. Lisa is currently Project Manager for a co-housing development in Corvallis.
Joel Pfundt, AICP
Joel Pfundt is a Principal Planner for the city of Redmond Transportation Services Division. His career in transportation spans over 10 years and includes work for City, County, and Regional government agencies. His professional experience ranges from construction project management to helping develop long range transportation plans. He is also chair of the Puget Sound Regional Council Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee and a member of the City of Kirkland Transportation Commission. Joel has worked with Concurrency Management and System Performance Monitoring for over 10 years and was the lead for the Puget Sound Regional Council’s Congestion Management System (CMS) which monitored multimodal system performance across four counties in central Puget Sound. At the City of Redmond he has managed the City’s transportation modeling efforts, including modeling related to transportation concurrency. He has been the co-project manager on the development of a new plan-based multimodal concurrency system.
Joyce Phillips, AICP
Joyce Phillips has 18 years of current and long-range planning experience in Washington State, including city, county and state government. She was appointed by Governor Gregoire to the Commute Trip Reduction Board in 2006, and served as a state liaison to the governor’s Climate Action Team in 2007. In 2008 Joyce served as the primary staff to the state’s Land Use and Climate Change Advisory Committee. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Land Use Studies from Central Washington University. In 2006, she received the Barbara Grace Award for dedication to public service and professional accomplishment in planning. Joyce has served on the Washington Chapter APA Board and is pursuing her Masters degree in Public Administration.
David Pyle
David Pyle is a Senior Planner at the City of Bellevue. He has 6 years of experience in local government focused on environmental planning, policy writing, and permitting. His educational background is in natural resources management. Prior to service as a municipal government employee, David gained several years of practical field experience through time spent as a field technician with the Nature Conservancy, as watershed restoration field crew supervisor for the State of Hawaii, and as a Peace Corps volunteer in Panama working directly with indigenous subsistence farmers and local governments on the development of watershed management plans. He also serves in his home community as a member of the City of Shoreline Planning Commission.
Matt Ransom, AICP
Matt Ransom has been the City of Vancouver’s transportation planning manager for the past 9 years and has overseen multiple multi-agency planning and project implementation efforts. He is responsible for managing all planning activities in relation to the City's transportation system. Those areas of functional responsibility include: comprehensive planning, sub-area studies, environmental impact studies, capital improvement planning, impact fee programs, code writing and administration. He has also been project manager to special studies, including project manager of the City’s transportation involvement in the I-5 Columbia River Crossing project. Matt serves as staff liaison to elected Council's and Commissions. Matt is also responsible for strategic planning and grant writing for implementation of the transportation capital improvement program. He oversees multiple citizen advisory committees to transportation. Matt holds a BS from the University of Utah and a Masters degree in Urban Planning from Portland State University. He was appointed to a 6-year term on the Washington State Commute Trip Reduction Board in 2006 by Governor Christine Gregoire.
Donald Samdahl, PE
Don Samdahl is a Principal at Fehr & Peers, specializing in transportation planning and growth management. Don has managed several community transportation plans for cities and counties within Washington State and has been involved in the evolution of growth management practices during the past 20 years. Don was project manager on a study to develop guidelines for local agencies to estimate the greenhouse gas (GHG) effects of comprehensive transportation and land use plans. His team evaluated the full range of GHG estimation tools and focused on those methodologies that would be most useful to local and regional planners. Don is a member of the ITE Task Force on Energy and Climate Change and is past chair of the ITE Transportation Planning Council.
Michael Shaw, J.D.
An attorney for the last 21 years, Michael Shaw started his legal career as a deputy prosecuting attorney in King County. For the last 17 years, he has worked solely in the legislative arena, first as a senate caucus attorney and currently as a contract lobbyist. Besides representing the Washington Chapter of the APA in Olympia, he also represents the American Heart Association, Snohomish County, Pierce County, and the Washington State Boundary Review Board Association. In the past, he has represented the Washington State Association of Counties and the Association of Washington Cities, as well as King County, and the City of Seattle. While local government issues are his specialty, he has lobbied extensively on state transportation issues for a variety of interests. When not in Olympia, he can be found biking with his nine year old son in West Seattle or driving a tractor in the family vineyard on Red Mountain.
Curtis E. Shuck
Curtis Shuck is Director of Economic Development and Facilities at the Port of Vancouver USA. His primary responsibilities include property development and management, capital projects, facilities maintenance and oversight of the port’s newly created rail department. Curtis is a member of the property transaction team that negotiated and completed the port’s land purchase from BNSF Railway Company that included an infrastructure donation from the railroad to the port. He’s also on the Port of Vancouver/City of Vancouver Joint Waterfront Redevelopment Team. He is also project director for the port’s West Vancouver Freight Access project. Curtis joined the Port of Vancouver in 2005 after nine years as manager of terminals and facilities with the Port of Port Angeles, Washington. Curtis is a graduate of the Charismatic Bible College of Alaska at Anchorage, the University of San Diego paralegal program and the UBC Carpenter Apprenticeship Program.
Kim Shugart
As the Vice President of Operations, Kim Shugart is directly responsible for the oversight and guidance for all aspects of tourism development for the Tri-Cities and surrounding region, including convention and sports sales efforts, marketing, river shore enhancement, and the Tri-City Hotel-Motel Commission. She supports the President and CEO by managing the daily business operations, assisting in the development of the budget, and financial reporting to city and hospitality partners. She also handles public speaking engagements in the absence of the CEO. Kim has 22 years of experience in the hospitality/tourism industry. She has been an employee of the Tri-Cities Visitor and Convention Bureau since 2003. Prior to joining the bureau Kim worked for both regional and nationally branded hotels for a number of years. Kim attended Central Washington University where she received a Bachelors Degree in Business and Recreation Services.
David Siegel, FAICP
David Siegel, Otak’s Planning Team Leader, is a senior planner and project manager with over 30 years of experience as a leader, planner, and manager for public and private sector planning and public works agencies. He has led or participated in the creation of numerous community plans, downtown and town center plans, comprehensive land use plans, and long-range planning and policy studies, each being given its own unique approach. Dave is active in the community and in his profession, and is in demand as a facilitator and problem-solver for complex planning issues nationwide. Dave recently completed his term on the national Board of Directors for the American Planning Association as Immediate Past President.
Marty Snell, AICP
Marty Snell is the Community Development Director of Clark County. Prior to this position, he was the Director of Community Planning for Clark County, where he oversaw the county’s growth management program. Prior to joining Clark County, he spent nearly 10 years as the Planning Manager for the City of Camas where he oversaw the current and long-range planning activities and code enforcement of the city. Marty also served as the Planning and Development Director for the City of Washougal where he directed the current, environmental and long range planning activities. Marty holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Western Washington University and a Master of Public Administration degree from Portland State University. He has served as an Executive Board member and President to the Washington City Planning Directors Association and is currently serving as Western Vice President to the Washington State Association of County and Regional Planning Directors, an affiliate of the Washington State Association of Counties, and the Clark County Quality Schools Program.
Bryan Snodgrass, AICP
Bryan Snodgrass is a Principal Planner for the City of Vancouver Community Planning Department. He has 19 years experience in current and long range planning for local government, with a focus on comprehensive plans, subarea plans, and growth monitoring. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Occidental College and a Masters degree in Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University. He is currently project managing the 2011 update of the Vancouver Comprehensive Plan, which will attempt to integrate sustainability considerations into land use policy.
Andrea Spencer, AICP
Andrea Spencer has been the Planning & Development Director for the City of Bremerton for the last three years. Previously, she served as planning manager for the City. Bremerton has twice won the Governor’s “Smart Communities” award during her tenure. She has been an active participant in the Washington State Department of Commerce pilot program for joint city/school district planning. She has a Masters degree in Planning and is an AICP.
Jill Sterrett, FAICP
Jill Sterrett is an accomplished professional planner who specializes in local community planning with a focus on climate change and sustainability. Her planning work includes comprehensive plans, sub-area plans, historic preservation plans, strategic plans, and environmental impact studies. She was inducted into the college of fellows with the American Planning Association in 2004.
For the Washington Chapter APA, she served as the co-chair and joint author of “Livable Washington” and is currently leading the team that is preparing the latest update, “Sustainable Washington 2009: Planning for Climate Change.” Jill served as Director of the Seattle office of EDAW, Inc, leading major projects including comprehensive plans for newly incorporated cities under Washington’s Growth Management Act and long term resource management plans for federal agencies and regional utility companies. Jill currently holds an appointment as an Affiliate Faculty with the Urban Design and Planning Department at the University of Washington.
Tim Stewart, AICP
Tim Stewart has served as Director of Planning and Community Development Director for the City of Bellingham since 2006. He had previously served as Planning Director in three other cities: Shoreline, Washington; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He has been a regular lecturer at Western Washington University, the University of Washington and the University of Nebraska. In 2005-2006 he took a year off to teach land use law and other courses at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Critter Thompson, LEED® AP
Critter Thompson expertise is in biology, climate science, ecology and the interaction of human settlements providing him with the background for analyzing natural and urban systems, their interconnectedness and their impact on each other. Critter provides clients with the ability to leverage natural resources to their fullest extent, repair the natural environment, and provide healthier places for people, as well as local plants and wildlife. Critter worked on the design of Mithun’s Center for Urban Agriculture, winner of the Living Building Challenge in 2007 and is a collaborator for the project CityLab7.
Paddy Tillett, RIBA, FRTPI, FAIA, FAICP, LEED® AP
Paddy Tillett is Director of Planning and Urban Design for ZGF Architects LLP, with offices in Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Washington DC and New York. Projects in which Paddy is a direct participant include master plans for college, university, state and commercial campuses together with transportation design for road and rail as well as downtown revitalization plans. Current projects in which visual resource assessment is important include urban design aspects of the Columbia River Crossing projects, an update of our 2000 master plan for the Iowa State Capitol Complex, college and university campus master plans in Pennsylvania, California, Alaska, Hawaii and Oregon. Paddy is also engaged with a number of cities on an ongoing basis to provide advice on matters of urban design.
Chris Smith Towne
Ms. Smith Towne has worked for more than 50 years to make our world a little greener and environmentally safer, through citizen activism, as a city council member, and as a member of the State Pollution Control Hearings Board, Shorelines Hearings Board, and Growth Management Hearings Board. For eight years, she served as director of Environmental and Natural Resource Services with Gordon Thomas Honeywell, serving governmental, tribal and business clients through mediation of complex disputes. Most recently, she served for four years as the representative of the State Department of Fish & Wildlife on the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, ruling on applications for several wind power projects. She is currently assisting in the development of a wind power project in Skamania County.
Sandra Towne
Sandra Towne is an urban planner with 25 years of planning experience in the state of Washington. She has managed a diverse number of planning programs and projects for both city and county jurisdictions. Sandra has managed and produced GMA comprehensive, subarea, and master plans including policy, regulation, and urban design documents – projects of over $2 million, as well as (removed comma) small business and residential community projects.
She joined the City of Vancouver in 2006 as a Principal Planner to manage and produce the Environmental Impact Statement and implementing regulations including a planned action ordinance for the Vancouver City Center Vision Plan. She is the City’s Community Planning Division lead staff in the planning and urban design process of the City’s waterfront development. She is project manager for three City Subarea plans with associated implementing measures. Sandra has also worked on the “other side of the counter” in the private sector, supervising permit processes from research and feasibility to land use and building permit approvals, and as a landscape designer. She has been awarded first place in both national and international urban design competitions. She graduated with merit from the University of Oregon with a Bachelors of Science in Landscape Architecture (BSLA).
Roger Wagoner AIA, FAICP
Roger Wagoner is the Director of Planning for BHC Consultants, LLC, a Seattle engineering and planning firm that provides services to local and state governments, and communities throughout Washington. He has 40 years experience in planning including extensive work in growth management planning, regulations and compliance. His experience includes managing local government permitting processes, environmental review, coordination with other agencies with jurisdiction, and assessments of local procedures. His work includes local policy and regulatory frameworks as they apply to wind power project development application permitting. He has appeared as an expert witness in a case that involved state Energy Facility Siting Council pre-emption of a county’s authority, testifying on consistency with the state Growth Management Act, and energy facility siting law and rules.
Honey Walters
Honey Walters is an associate principal and EDAW’s regional practice leader for air quality and climate change. She is a member of the global climate change/sustainability practice line for the western U.S. and a co-leader of EDAW’s global climate change committee. Honey possesses a strong educational and professional background in air pollution chemistry and climate change science, with Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Environmental Chemistry and Atmospheric Science. She is currently working with the Cities of Albany, Piedmont, Mountain View, and Burbank and the Counties of San Joaquin, Yuba, and Alameda to develop Climate Action Plans to address measures that will reduce GHG emissions generated by city-operated facilities and community-wide sources, (semicolon to a comma) the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to develop thresholds of significance (remove semicolon) and the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District to develop a new CEQA guide. Honey (used first name) also served as a delegate to China for the Air and Waste Management Association meeting with various government agencies and universities in Beijing, Guilin, and Shanghai to share her knowledge of air quality issues.
Richard Weinman, JD
Richard Weinman is an attorney and land use planner with 30 years experience in land use planning and regulatory issues, Growth Management Act compliance, plans and regulations, environmental review, and permitting. Richard has prepared numerous planned action EISs for city centers, business districts, master planned resorts, and redevelopment projects. Richard works with public agencies and private applicants on development projects including, mixed-use master plans, redevelopment projects, transit oriented development, institutional, commercial/retail, energy, industrial and transportation proposals. He regularly advises public agencies and private applicants on compliance with the requirements of the State Environmental Policy Act and National Environmental Policy Act, as well as other strategic issues relating to permitting and regulatory compliance. Richard received a BA in English from New York University in 1965, a MA in English from Brandeis University in 1966, and a J.D. from the University of Puget Sound School of Law, 1978.
Charles Wolfe, Esq.
Chuck Wolfe is an environmental and land use lawyer with a graduate degree in regional planning, and over 24 years of experience in environmental and land use law, innovative land use regulatory tools and sustainable development techniques. He has held significant leadership positions in both the legal and planning professions. He has represented private sector and municipal clients in multiple facets of redevelopment, including environmental and land use permitting, regulatory drafting and property remediation issues in the Puget Sound region and several other venues statewide. He is a Principal of Charles R. Wolfe, Attorney at Law, an an Affiliate Associate Professor in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Washington, where he teaches several classes and has contributed to major research efforts addressing urban center and Brownfield (capitalized this, need “s”?…see prior under John Means) redevelopment. He is currently Treasurer of the Seattle District Council/Urban Land Institute and a Reporter for the national publication, Planning and Environmental Law.
Phillip Wuest, AICP
Phil Wuest (added last name) has been a Principal Transportation Planner (capitalized title) with the City of Vancouver since 2001. In that capacity, his focus is on both short and long-term transportation and land use planning. Among other responsibilities, Phil develops the 20-year transportation capital facilities plan and Vancouver’s Six Year Transportation Improvement Program. He also maintains the City’s traffic impact fee program, develops transportation concurrency policy, and writes grants to fund the transportation construction program. Prior to that Phil worked in long range planning for Clark County Washington as a travel model and GIS analyst, and interned in Portland Metro’s travel forecasting section during graduate school. Phil earned a BA from Penn State in Latin American Studies, a Master of Urban Studies degree from Portland State University (with a focus on transportation and economics), and will finish the JD program at Lewis & Clark College in December.