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Urban Planning
Andrea Broaddus (2006-07)
Andrea's year as a German Chancellor Fellow was spent at the Institute for Transportation Planning and Logistics at the Hamburg University of Technology. She studied the German policy of tolling freight trucks on autobahns, and other road pricing applications in Europe. Her paper on this topic was published by the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Science in 2008. As a fellow, she also spent a month as a guest researcher with the European NGO Transport & Environment in Brussels. Andrea completed a Master of Public Policy/Urban Planning at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2006. Her experience includes working on local, state and federal transportation policy in Washington, DC for the Surface Transportation Policy Project, and as a Senior Associate with Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates. In 2009, Andrea became a PhD student and research fellow at UC Berkeley Center for Future Urban Transport.
(2/4/10)
Jamie Chan (2003-04)
Jamie obtained a Master of Architecture from Columbia University
in 2001 and is now an urban designer at the New York City Department
of City Planning. Prior to the German Chancellor Fellowship, she
worked on sustainable architectural design at Demetri Sarantitis
Architects in NYC. During her year in Germany, Jamie interned with
several organizations learning about environmentally-conscious building
and planning practices. Most of her time was spent at the planning
agency of the City of Freiburg, where she studied progressive policies
and implementations, and at the Überlingen-based landscape
architecture firm, Atelier Dreiseitl, where she trained in such
ecological practices as storm water management. (5/15/06)
Joel Dabu (2009-10)
Prior to receiving the German Chancellor Fellowship, Joel was employed as the Director for Commercial Revitalization for the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. During his tenure at Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Joel established the Bed-Stuy Gateway Business Improvement District and played a leading role in a variety of other real estate and retail development planning initiatives aimed at improving economic and social conditions in the community. Immediatey prior to being employed by Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Joel worked as a city planner for the New York City Department of City Planning. Joel received a Master of Urban Planning from New York University and B.A. from The George Washington University and is a 2002 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholar. During his fellowship year in Germany, Joel will be based in the Leipzig office of the city management and consulting firm CIMA, and will be conducting research on downtown retail development and revitalization strategies of German and other European cities. (10/30/09)
Geraldine Gardner (2000-01)
Geraldine Gardner has been the Associate Director for Neighborhood Planning in the DC Office of Planning since 2007. She currently manages a team of 10 planners who work on various planning and implementation projects in District neighborhoods. Geraldine also serves as the lead planner for the Poplar Point redevelopment project and manages coordination with the federal government for the Saint Elizabeths development. Previously, she served as a project manager in the District’s Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, managing the Neighborhood Investment Fund program. Geraldine spent her year as a German Chancellor Fellow in Berlin examining contested urban development and planning projects. After returning to the United States, Geraldine used her research to complete a master’s degree in Urban Planning at UCLA where she wrote about the construction of Berlin as a “creative city." (4/21/10)
Jennifer Gerend (2006-07)
Leading up to Jennifer’s participation in the German Chancellor Fellowship Program, she served as the Economic Development Director for the City of Edmonds, Washington. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Jennifer spent the year in Berlin working on a project involving the balance of long-term city planning principles and the need for economic development and municipal revenue generation. She was mentored by the Berlin city agency for urban development and a real estate institute in Bochum. Articles were published as a result of this work in "Planning" and "Urban Land" magazines. She spent a second year in Germany working as a city planner for the City of Trier. Currently, she is a member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where she teaches land use. (6/26/09)
Scott Mueller (2007-08)
Scott explored the origins, current situation and future prospects of renewable energy in Germany and globally. He was inspired to learn of the grass-roots efforts that lead to a national policy and the sustainable local economies. Having traveled extensively through Germany speaking with community leaders, small and large businesses, and strangers alike, Scott is honored to have shared in the story of Germany's success. In addition Scott has traveled extensively internationally, speaking of renewable energy and energy efficiency efforts in Germany. The response from audiences confirmed the importance of Germany's leadership in these subject areas and was a source of great hope. Following the Fellowship, Scott joined eclareon GmbH, a strategic management consultancy based in Berlin and Madrid. He continues to consult on policy, market entry and business development as an independent consultant for German, American and Spanish companies. In addition, Scott is a Western USA Regional Coordinator for EnEd GmbH, a provider of renewable energy education, building energy solutions and developer of Renewable Energy Centers. He is currently working to develop a Renewable Energy Center in the Bay Area based on the successful experience of the Solar Info Center in Freiburg. Through these (and future) projects, Scott continues to build a bridge between the USA and Germany.(2/16/10)
Danielle "D.S." Pensley (2001-02)
On the easternmost edge of Berlin lies the housing development of Hellersdorf: four- and five-story concrete buildings extending into the distance. More than ten years earlier, D.S. had analyzed the construction of this hyper-settlement under the command-and-control economy of a socialist regime. (In contrast, the settlement's architectural antecedents bespoke a humane approach to urban planning.) Returning to Hellersdorf as a German Chancellor Fellow, she conducted interviews and other forms of qualitative research to understand how residents viewed the hyper-settlement within the changed context of their lives given the demise of the German Democratic Republic. D.S. is now completing a clerkship on the United States Court of Federal Claims, and writing a master's thesis on historic preservation law as applied to environmental conservation. (6/26/09)
Matthew Rao (2005-06)
Matthew is a planner and community organizer who is interested in the ability of urban neighborhoods to shape themselves and determine their future. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Matthew worked in the East German city of Halle (Saale) as a guest researcher in the department of City Planning comparing urban redevelopment practices and perspectives with those in his adopted home of Philadelphia. While in Halle, he also founded HausHaltenHalle, a nonprofit community organization that connects the owners of vacant buildings with artists and small businesses in need of affordable space. After Halle, Matthew worked as the Director of Commercial Revitalization for the Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation and has also worked for the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Transformation (NTI) in Philadelphia and for a member of the German Parliament in Berlin. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and also holds a B.A. in Urban Studies and Political Science from Penn. (7/2/09)
Emily Yates(2010-11)
Prior to Emily's participation in the German Chancellor Fellowship Program, she served as the Ward 2 Neighborhood Planner for the District of Columbia Office of Planning. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Emily will be spending her year in Hamburg using the waterfront brownfield development project of HafenCity as a case study to look at the application and implementation of green infrastructure and how it has been used to cope with climate change within a waterfront development project. She is being mentored by Hamburg’s State Ministry of Urban Development and Environment’s Coordination Centre for Climate Issues. Emily hopes to combine her BS in Landscape Architecture and her professional background in Urban Planning to create a report that can be applied to all waterfront cities, but specifically Washington DC, and that will provide guidance on successful implementation of green infrastructure into a urban waterfront fabric. (5/6/10)
Nella Young (2009-10)
Nella will complete her M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University in May 2009. She is interested in planning approaches for places that have experienced large-scale population change. Nella will spend her fellowship year working with IBA Stadtumbau in Saxony-Anhalt where she will focus on revitalization strategies that draw on an area’s arts and cultural assets. (7/2/09)
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