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Area Wide Planning Webinar Series
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Join us for the Webinar “Community Engagement”
Webinar Topic: Integrating Community Engagement and Area Wide Planning
Date: June 9, 2022
Time: 16:00 PM — 17:30 PM (CEST) // 7:00 - 8:30 AM PDT
Webex Access Link: https://uba-meeting.webex.com/meet/stadtlandplus
Dial-in Option Germany: +49 619 6781 9736
Dial-in Option US: +1 650 215 5226
Meeting Number: 174 493 0249
The following speakers will share their experiences in both the German and US context.
Stefan Heinig
Stefan Heinig – Stadtentwicklung / Planung / Beratung
Stefan Heinig is currently a freelance urban planner. Up until September 2020, he was the Director of the Department for City Development Planning for the City of Leipzig. He was responsible for the integrated city development concept, residential and urban core concepts, land use and landscape planning as well as the coordination point for citizen participation for the initiative „Leipzig weiter denken“ (Eng: “Leipzig thinking ahead”). He has also been active in various international cooperation projects, including the Dialogs for Change with partners from Germany and the USA.
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Germán Quiñonez
Every Neighborhood Partnership
Germán Quiñonez is the Neighborhood Development Director for Every Neighborhood Partnership, which is a an inclusive, diverse, multifaith, 501c3 community-benefit organization with a 15 year history of addressing the social disparities that directly impact the most vulnerable populations in Fresno’s south neighborhoods, through civic engagement, capacity building, health advocacy, and community revitalization. Over the past 17 years, he has enjoyed serving in some capacity as a local urbanist for community development, proudly boasting of no direct affiliation with institutions or any academia but rather acting as an emerging leader of creative thinkers who are fighting for the third space, by rediscovering the gifts and assets that exist in every neighborhood, and reclaiming those geographies for liberation! In his free time, Germán enjoys reading and traveling and occasionally celebrates accomplishments with tequila shots for fun.
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Drew Wilson
City of Fresno, CA
Drew Wilson is a Supervising Planner for the City of Fresno in the Planning and Development Department. He has managed a range of Long Range Planning projects from Specific Plans to Corridor Studies, and currently runs the City’s Brownfield Program. He was born and raised in Fresno, which shaped his passion for planning and community engagement.
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Aimee Storm
US EPA
Aimee Storm is the Land Revitalization Coordinator and Policy, Research and Outreach Team leader for EPA’s Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization (OBLR). Her work supports community-led redevelopment of contaminated properties and associated neighborhood revitalization strategies. Aimee holds Masters Degrees in City & Regional Planning and Business Administration.
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