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Seattle
2003 Speakers and Panelists
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H.
Eliot Foulds
National Park Service |
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Mary
Fox
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Vice President
for Capital & Planning
Prospect Park Alliance
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Mary
is the Vice President for Capital & Planning for the Prospect
Park Alliance. She oversees the departments of Design & Construction,
Information Technology and Archives/Record Management.
Mary has spent almost 14 years helping to restore one of the wonders
of the world - Prospect Park in Brooklyn. First hired as a temporary
employee to head up the Carousel restoration, she went on to join
the team that became the Prospect Park Alliance Design & Construction
office. Soon after, she bought her first pair of construction
boots and never looked back.
The office has grown as their work
expanded to include all the design and construction supervision
for the Park, adding Architects and an Historic Preservationist
to the Landscape Architects already toiling away.
Now Vice President for Capital
& Planning, she is also responsible for Information Technology
(including GIS), Historic Archives & Records Management
and planning. She is always happy to share what she has learned
and take credit for the work of her remarkable staff.
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Christina
Gallegos |
| Naturalist,
Seward Park Naturalist, Seattle Parks and Recreation |
Christina
is a twenty year veteran of the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department.
She began her career as an Employment Counselor with the Summer
Youth Employment Program in 1982. In 1987 she was hired as the
first permanent Volunteer Coordinator and began the development
of the Adopt-A-Park program. Between 1987 and 1993 she worked
with many community organizations to build support and long term
neighborhood groups to support parks throughout the city. Between
1993 and 1998 she worked on many restoration and community based
projects in the south division including: Pritchard Wetlands restoration,
Genesee Wildflower meadow, and Deadhorse Canyon. Christina has
been instrumental in the development of environmental education
and interpretative programming at Seward Park and in the southeast
corridor of the city. She currently holds the position of Naturalist
at Seward Park.
Christina is a native of the San Luis Valley, one of the highest
and largest alpine valleys in the country, nestled between the
Sangre De Cristo and San Juan mountain ranges in Southern Colorado,
130 miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1985 U of W graduate, Secondary
Education
1992 National Parks and Recreation Maintenance Management School
Graduate
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Robert
Garcia |
Senior
Attorney and Director of the City Project, Center for Law in the
Public Interest, Los Angeles, California
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Robert
García is a Senior Attorney and Director of The City Project.
The mission of The City Project is to achieve equal justice, democracy
and livability in the Los Angeles region by influencing the investment
of public resources to achieve results that are equitable, enhance
human health and the environment, and promote economic vitality
for all communities. The City Project engages in advocacy, coalition
building and litigation focused on equal access to parks and recreation;
converting brownfields into green and clean schools, playgrounds
and parks; and transportation equity.
Robert has been a key member of the legal team to create state
parks in the Chinatown Cornfield, Baldwin Hills, and Taylor Yard
along the Los Angeles River. Robert is Chairman of the Proposition
BB Citizens’ Oversight Committee, overseeing the investment
of $2.4 billion for public school construction and modernization
in Los Angeles.
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Jeff
Girvin
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ASLA
Principal, The Berger Partnership
Seattle, WA.
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Mr. Girvin has been
a principal with The Berger Partnership since 1982 and firm president
for the last two years. Jeff's projects encompass a broad variety
of types including work on commercial developments and educational
projects. He also serves as principal in charge and project designer
on many of the firm's park and athletic facility projects. Jeff
brings to public projects a passion for community-based design,
believing public input to be the backbone of any successful public
project. His park experience includes the master planning and
design of new parks facilities as well as the renovation and redesign
of existing park facilities.
Jeff is currently principal-in-charge of Lincoln Reservoir Park,
an Olmsted park adaptive reuse project located in Seattle's most
densely populated neighborhood, Capitol Hill. The project has
included an extensive public involvement process resulting in
re-design of an Olmsted park and creation of several new acres
of park open-space, created by the covering of an existing reservoir
facility. The resulting design balances the historical components
of the old reservoir and the Olmsted park design with new park
elements and a major new public art work . Selected other projects
include: Sand Point Magnuson Works Park, Seattle; Redmond High
School, Redmond.
In addition to his work with The Berger Partnership, Jeff shares
his passion for great design with the public through his participation
in the design community, having served as a member of the Seattle
Design Commission and currently serving as a Board of Trustees
member for ARCADE magazine.
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Nancy Gronowski |
| Senior
Planner, Portland Parks & Recreation |
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is a graduate of Michigan State
University and a registered landscape architect. Her work experiences
range from site and park design for Cleveland MetroParks to master
plans for Oregon State Parks, including initial proposals to preserve
the remaining sections of the Historic Columbia River Highway,
to numerous management plans for Portland Parks & Recreation.
Current projects include revising Portland's Urban Forestry Management
Plan, which she authored, and working on a comprehensive strategic
plan for Portland Parks & Recreation. Interests include gardening,
reading and running. |
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