Nov 28, 2022
Tamsin is a Registered Professional Planner with over 10 years of experience as a planner, project manager, facilitator and sustainability specialist with municipal and provincial levels of government, First Nations and the private sector. Tamsin led development of the first Climate Change Adaptation Strategy in Canada that follows the ICLEI framework – the City of Vancouver’s…
Oct 24, 2022
Amy King is the Founder and CEO of Pallet, an Everett, WA-based Public Benefit Corporation. They striveto improve people’s lives while being a successful and profitable company. Pallet addresses unshelteredhomelessness through its high-quality products and the invaluable people who produce them. They arealso a fair chance employer who pays a living wage. Diversified hiring practices…
Oct 21, 2022
Jan Braat is a social scientist and senior policy-advisor on migration and inclusion at the city of Utrecht, one of the four major cities in the Netherlands. His subjects, within the department of Social Welfare, are matters of homelessness and for the last 20 years, inclusion, undocumented migrants and asylum policies. At the national level,…
Oct 21, 2022
Niene Oepkes has been working in the field of migration for the last 20 years, about a decade of that with the NGO Refugee Council Netherlands and about a decade in local (and multilevel) governance. She is an active member of the Steering Group C-MISE, the City Initiative On Irregular Migrants in Europe. She is…
Oct 19, 2022
Hannah Presser is the Program Officer, Housing Technical Assistance at the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Hannah provides housing training and technical assistance to housing logistic and case management staff across the IRC’s 27 U.S. field offices to build staff capacity and to ensure housing stabilization for recently arrived refugees in the U.S. Hannah ensures that…
Oct 19, 2022
Chuni Lu is the Senior Program Officer, Affordable Housing Solutions at the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Chuni oversees the IRC Resettlement Housing Team’s work in developing innovative housing solutions, building new housing partnerships, and providing training and technical assistance to housing staff at 27 IRC field offices across the U.S. Chuni has over 20 years…
Oct 18, 2022
Elizabeth is the president of Maytree, a private Canadian charitable foundation focused on poverty and human rights in Canada. A committed leader in the not-for-profit sector, she also has extensive experience in research, teaching and working in direct service provision. Elizabeth has a deep history with Maytree; she previously served as the Director of Policy…
Oct 17, 2022
Kirsten is a communications professional with a Master’s degree in Global Affairs from the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and a B.A. in journalism from Howard University. She currently serves as the Marketing & Communications Manager for The Shift, an organization founded by former UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate…
Oct 17, 2022
Helen Elizabeth Yu comes to the MMC with experience working across multilateral humanitarian and development agencies and cities grappling with the realities of migration, rapid urbanization and climate change. In 2021, she served as Cameroon Coordinator for UN-Habitat’s Urban Planning and Infrastructure in Migration Contexts Project (UPIMC), establishing a field office in Douala, Cameroon and…
Oct 17, 2022
Samer Saliba has 14 years of experience helping over 50 cities become more inclusive of migrant, displaced, and marginalized people. As the lead urban technical advisor at the International Rescue Committee, Samer worked directly with the cities of Amman, Athens, Milan, and Kampala, among others, to implement and institutionalize inclusive projects, policies, and plans within…
Sep 19, 2022
Leni Schwendinger is a recognized authority on the many issues and applications of city lighting with more than 20 years of experience creating illuminated environments for public spaces all over the world. Her innovative interdisciplinary practice, nighttime design urbanism, focuses on city districts’ darkened hours and includes fresh community involvement methodologies. This work is shared…
Sep 19, 2022
Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, DPACSA, NOMA is a founding board member and President of the Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization. He taught at Princeton and is the former Chair and Director of the Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY. Educated at the Cooper Union, he holds two master’s degrees from the GSD at Harvard University. He is…