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LIZ BLUME, AICP
Executive Director
Liz Blume has built her career
blending community organizing principles with neighborhood planning
processes. She has more than 15 years of experience leading comprehensive,
municipal planning processes that focus on building healthy neighborhoods
through citizen participation. Until December 2002, Liz was Director
of the Department of Planning for the City of Cincinnati, where
she served for three years. Prior to that, Liz was Director of
the Department of Planning & Community Development for the
City of Dayton, Ohio.
At the Community Building Institute, Liz's work
has included coordinating work with KnowledgeWorks, Greater Cincinnati
Foundation and others on the engagement for Community Learning
Centers, a major initiative with Cincinnati Public Schools. She
has led an important regional research project that establishes
a new framework for the conversation around regionalism in the
Cincinnati area. She has been deeply involved with the place matters
project; a major effort, with a funding collaborative, to implement
a comprehensive community investment strategy in three Cincinnati
neighborhoods. Liz is committed to making sure the work of the
Institute is relevant and connected to people who live in the
communities she is working in.
In Cincinnati, Liz led a department of 25 professionals
and oversaw a budget of $2 million. Her department was engaged
in a wide range of planning issues, including land use, transportation,
downtown, education, housing and economic development. It gained
a reputation for being committed to neighborhood and community
planning efforts. One of her key accomplishments was the development
of a comprehensive plan for Over-the-Rhine, a neighborhood that
borders the city's downtown. The inclusive planning process has
been praised for building consensus among competing community
stakeholders.
Liz is a former consultant with Woolpert Consultants
in Dayton. She has a Master of Community Planning from the School
of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning at the University of
Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and
Urban Planning from the College of Architecture and Planning at
Ball State University. She is a frequent guest lecturer on topics
related to planning and politics, smart growth, professional practice
and urban design, and has written numerous articles on those topics.
Liz lives in Cincinnati's Clifton neighborhood with her two children.
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DR.
BYRON P. WHITE
Associate Vice President of the Center For Community Learning
&
Senior Consultant for the Community Building Institute
As a veteran journalist and an
administrator in corporate, non-profit and academic arenas, Byron
White has spent his career facilitating mutually beneficial engagement
and understanding between institutions and communities. He is
Associate Vice President and Director of the James C. Eigel Center
for Community Engaged Learning at Xavier University. The Center
is a network of programs and systems - which includes the Community
Building Institute - that fosters opportunities for extending
student learning from the classroom to the community. In this
role, White supports the engagement activities of faculty, students,
administrators and staff. He previously was director of the Community
Building Institute.
Until June 2002, Byron was senior manager of community
relations for the Chicago Tribune, where he oversaw community
engagement strategies and diversity marketing efforts. Byron had
previously served as editor of the Tribune's Urban Affairs Team
and a writer on the newspaper's editorial board. He also was the
editorial page editor of the Cincinnati Post.
Between newspaper jobs in Cincinnati and Chicago, Byron served
as executive director of the Conference of Walnut Hills Churches,
a coalition of 18 congregations in Walnut Hills that worked together
on housing and education initiatives. He also was a consultant
to community organizations on Chicago's West Side and in other
cities, working in conjunction with the Asset-Based Community
Development Institute at Northwestern University, on whose faculty
he serves.
Byron has a Master of Arts degree in Social Science
from the University of Chicago, with concentration in urban policy,
and a Byron has a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from
the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University. He is scheduled
to complete his doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania
in May 2008.
Byron lives in Cincinnati's North Avondale
neighborhood with his wife, Vanessa, and their five children.
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TRINA
L. JACKSON
Program Director
Trina Jackson has spent her career
leading processes that drive citizen empowerment and civic participation,
particularly by those most marginalized by society. She has led
projects in homeownership and residential planning with residents
from rural Northern Kentucky to inner-city Cincinnati - involving
everyone from mentally retarded citizens to public housing tenants.
Since joining the Institute in 1999, Trina has coordinated
numerous trainings and forums and maintained a strong network
of community-based organizations across Cincinnati's Tri-State
region, all fostering citizen-led, asset-based development practices.
As a senior member of the CBI team, Trina oversees all financial
operations, managing the organizational budget, as well as short
and long-term projects budgets.
Prior to joining the Institute, Trina administered
the Strengthening Ohio's Leadership Grant as a Community Outreach
Organizer for the Ohio State University Extension. As a Planner
and Housing Specialist for Kriss Lowry & Associates, Trina
worked in urban and suburban communities managing federally funded
housing and community development projects in Northern Kentucky.
Trina also was a homeownership coordinator for Living Arrangements
for the Developmentally Disabled (LADD) in Cincinnati, where she
helped mentally disabled citizens transition into homeownership.
Trina has a Master of Community Planning from
the School of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning at the University
of Cincinnati and a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice from
UC. She is a Certified Project Manager and holds a green-belt
in the Six Sigma Process. She served as a commissioner on the
Colerain Township Zoning Commission in suburban Cincinnati for
five years, and is currently a member of the Land Use Advisory
Board.
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PICKET
SLATER HARRINGTON
Community Building Associate
Pickett Slater Harrington has
spent his career facilitating and supporting the development of
healthy individuals and strong communities. His experience covers
a wide range of areas including community organizing, youth leadership
development, program management and research.
During his tenure with the Community Building Institute,
Pickett works closely with neighborhood organizations and groups
to create and implement community revitalization efforts focused
on business district development, safety and quality of life issues
and housing development. Pickett also works with grassroots community
leaders to implement community organizing campaigns and access
community resources that can be leveraged to create change. In
addition, Pickett conducts several trainings and workshops designed
to help organizations and communities implement asset based community
development efforts.
Prior to joining the Community Building Institute,
Pickett served as program manager and director of education and
training for Public Allies Cincinnati, a leadership development
program for young adults. A native of South Carolina, he has worked
with several nationally recognized nonprofits including the Urban
League, where he coordinated a multi-county summer youth employment
program, and the Children's Defense Fund, where he managed a countywide
youth summer enrichment program modeled after the Freedom Schools
of the Civil Rights Movement. Pickett also has served with the
South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs and the University
of South Carolina's Center for Child and Family Studies.
Pickett has a Master of Social Work degree from the University
of South Carolina with a concentration in communities and organizations,
a Bachelor of Science degree from Francis Marion University in
South Carolina and a Business Masters Certificate from Xavier
University in Cincinnati, OH.
Pickett lives in Cincinnati with his wife,
Khalilah.
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BETH
NAGY
Place Matters Project Manager
The place matters initiative is a pilot project
of social co-investors, as a collaborative, to engage in place-based
investing over three years to improve social and economic conditions
in three communities in Greater Cincinnati: the Cincinnati neighborhoods
of Avondale and Price Hill, and the City of Covington, Ky. The
collaborative contracted with CBI to work with stakeholders in
the three communities to create and execute detailed community
development plans that outline tightly integrated, comprehensive,
neighborhood-focused activities.
Beth oversees the on-the-ground coordination of
place matters progress by working with community-based project
coordinators. Community progress is demonstrated through the execution
of processes and strategies to achieve identified community goals.
In order to meet the overall goals of place matters, she provides
daily coordination of community-based projects with the lead agencies
and community partners. The product of these relationships is
the measurable progress each community is achieving. Additional
responsibilities of the project manager include recognizing opportunities
where technical assistance is needed, mediating and resolving
conflicts, reporting progress to place matters constituents, and
developing and maintaining the collaborative relationships necessary
to ensure successful outcomes.
Beth was Planning Specialist for the Cincinnati
Public Schools before joining CBI. In that role, she was responsible
much of the planning and data analysis for CPS' long-range planning
functions, including major decisions regarding student enrollment
and facilities construction related to the Facilities Master Plan.
She also served the district as the liaison to regional governmental
bodies and local institutions, as well as a resource to community-based
organizations and community leaders seeking CPS information, demographics
and planning assistance.
Originally
from Cleveland, Ohio, Beth attended the University of Cincinnati
and received her Bachelor of Urban Planning (BUP) and Master of
Community Planning (MCP) from the College of DAAP. Beth is finishing
her coursework towards a doctoral degree from the College of Education
at UC in Urban Educational Leadership (UEL). Beth holds certifications
in GIS and Evaluation and Assessment. She also teaches at UC and
Xavier. Beth lives in Clifton Hts., part of the Cincinnati CUF
community.
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| CHRIS
SCHADLER
Community Building Consultant
Chris
Schadler has spent the last 6 years as a community building consultant
with the Community Building Institute (CBI). His professional
experience covers a wide range of areas including neighborhood
planning, planning design, community organizing, asset-mapping,
geographic information systems, and program management for neighborhood’s
in Greater Cincinnati and beyond.
At
CBI, his work has included project facilitation and technical
support on numerous neighborhood plans; program management of
King Studios whose goal is to erect a memorial for King Records
in Evanston; the Strive initiative aimed at educational reform;
and the place matters project, a intense effort to implement a
comprehensive community investment strategy in three Cincinnati
neighborhoods.
Formerly,
Chris was a consultant with the Short Vine Development Company
and served as a volunteer consultant for the Cincinnati neighborhood
of Northside as they developed their land use plan between 2003-2006.
Chris has lived in Northside since 2000 and is the co-founder
and promoter of the Northside Rock ‘N Roll Carnival.
Chris
has a Master of Community Planning from the School of Design,
Art, Architecture and Planning at the University of Cincinnati
and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Northern Kentucky University.
He also served as the promotions manager at the Historic Southgate
House between 1995-2008 and still spends some of his time as a
musician and an independent music promoter for venues such as
Midpoint Music Festival, Fountain Square and the Northside Tavern.
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