E-mail:  greenschemes@bellsouth.net

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1971 to 1992               Institute of Cultural Affairs, International

                                    Worked in Australia, India, Egypt and Belgium

                                    Facilitated integrated planning processes in villages

1992 to 2006               Institute of Cultural Affairs, Greensboro

                                    Facilitated Participatory Planning and Design Processes

                                    Greensboro, North Carolina

                                    Title:   Program Director/Human Ecologist

                                    Trainer and application specialist of ToP^® methods

2006 to 2007               greenschemes, Greensboro, North Carolina

Principal/Human Ecologist

Working with allied professionals to design participatory planning and design processes that foster integrated thinking and design in communities.

EXPERIENCE:

Thirty years experience in designing and facilitating participatory planning and design processes in villages, neighborhoods, cities, counties and organizations, working with design professionals – planners, architects, landscape architects to form teams to design a seamless participatory planning and design process.

RECENTPARTICIPATORY PLANNING AND DESIGN PROJECTS:

Downtown Greensboro, Inc. and the Piedmont Chapter of AIA

            The Pedestrian Experience

     
      New Garden Landscaping and Nursery, Inc. – Greensboro, NC

            Planning and Design of New Garden Village (Commercial Village)

     
      City of Greensboro

      Concept Development for Renaissance Center, Phillips Ave., Greensboro ,NC

      Brick Capital CDC, Sanford, NC,

      Planning and Preliminary Design, Wicker Park

     
      Charlotte Hawkins Brown State Historic Site, Sedalia, N

      Five Year Strategic Redevelopment Site Plan

     
      The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro,

      Created and piloted the Participatory Design Module in three Greensboro       neighborhoods

PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS:

Bachelor of Science, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN 1967

Masters Degree in Human Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

(magna cum laude) 1991

International Certificate of Human Ecology

World Health Organization, Geneva Switzerland, 1991

Technologies of Participation (ToP^®) Training Certification,

Qualified Trainer, 1992, Mentor Trainer, 1997

The Institute of Cultural Affairs, USA

Introduction to Permaculture course

Greensboro, NC. 1995

Post Graduate course in Ecological Design, NC State University, 2002

MEMBER:

SHE – Society for Human Ecology (USA)

Founding member, International Association of Facilitators, 1993

Immediate Past Chair, Greensboro Beautiful, Inc.

Development Chair, Greensboro Beautiful, Inc.

Past Chair, Guilford County Environmental Review Board

AWARDS:

Robert L. Garrard Award of Distinction by Greensboro Beautiful, Inc., 2001

Outstanding Board Member Award, Greensboro Beautiful, Inc. 1999

Outstanding Board Member Award, Greensboro Beautiful, Inc. 1997

PUBLICATIONS:

Village Forestry, Masters Thesis, Masters Program in Human Ecology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1991

Anthology of Sustainability, Vol. I, Published by Greensboro Beautiful, Inc. 1998

Connecting the Dots .. The Sustainability Movement at the Turn of the Millennium, Initiatives Newsletter, Fall ’99, The Institute of Cultural Affairs in the U.S.A.