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2013-2014 MASTER OF SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT FACULTY CHRISTOPHER CALOTT, AIA, ULI, LF ’12 is the Director of the MSRED Program. With over twenty five years of experience, Calott brings an unusual combination of excellence in his creative work as an architect and urban designer as demonstrated through numerous design awards, dedication as a teacher at a number of institutions, and success as a real estate developer and entrepreneur. His innovative development work has introduced new mixed-use housing types, “infill” subdivisions, Transit-Oriented Developments, Community Supported Agriculture, affordable housing, adaptivereuse, and vibrant public spaces in the communities in which he has worked. Chris has pursued significant research on the areas of urbanism, housing and community-based design practices through published investigations tied to teaching at numerous universities throughout the United States, Mexico and Latin America. He received the prestigious Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 2011-2012, where he spent the year in residence investigating affordable housing delivery mechanisms, urban design theories, Landscape Urbanism, and Green Infrastructure design strategies. He holds a B.A., Honors, in Urban Theory and Design from Brown University and his Master of Architecture from Princeton University. RODOLFO AGUILAR is a Professor of Practice in the Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. He has a BS in Architectural Engineering and a Bachelor and Master of Architecture from Louisiana State University, An MBA from Tulane University Freeman School of Business and a PhD in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University. Rudi is former Chairman and CEO of Pyburn & Odom, and current Chairman, President and CEO of The Aguilar Group, real estate appraisers. Rudi teaches within the MBA program and within the MSRED program as well as in the Executive MBA program through the Freeman School of Business. WILLIAM B. BRADSHAW II is co-founder and president of Green Coast Enterprises (GCE). For the last decade, he has developed real estate in North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Louisiana. His projects have received numerous awards including a 2001 Maxwell Award of Excellence from the Fannie Mae Foundation. As a GCE co-founder, Will was named an Echoing Green fellow for 2008-2010. GCE’s work has also been celebrated by Social Entrepreneurs of New Orleans, All Day Buffet, CityBusiness, Fast Company magazine, and Business Week, which named Bradshaw and co-founder Reuben Teague as two of the 25 most promising social entrepreneurs in the United States. Bradshaw holds a PhD in City Planning with specialties in Regional and Urban Economics and Sustainable Community Development from MIT. He also holds Masters Degrees in City Planning and Real Estate Development from the MIT and degrees in Physics and Cross-Cultural Studies from Davidson College. MAURICE COX is a nationally respected community designer and leader of the public interest design movement. Maurice is the director of the Tulane City Center as well as the associate dean for community engagement at the Tulane University School of Architecture. Cox, studied architecture at Cooper Union in New York. A co-founder of the national SEED (Social, Economic, Environmental, Design) Network, Cox served as design director of the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC from 2007-2010. In that capacity, he led the Mayor’s Institute on City Design, the Governor’s Institute on Community Design and oversaw the award of more than $2 million a year in NEA design grants across the United States. Fast Company business magazine named Cox one of America’s “20 Masters of Design” for his practice of “democratic design.” Cox’s appreciation of the civic process led him to serve as city councilmember and then mayor of the City of Charlottesville from 1996-2004.
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2013-2014 MASTER OF SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT FACULTY<br />
CHRISTOPHER CALOTT, AIA, ULI, LF ’12<br />
is the Director <strong>of</strong> the MSRED Program.<br />
With over twenty five years <strong>of</strong> experience,<br />
Calott brings an unusual combination <strong>of</strong><br />
excellence in his creative work as an architect<br />
and urban designer as demonstrated<br />
through numerous design awards, dedication<br />
as a teacher at a number <strong>of</strong> institutions,<br />
and success as a real estate developer<br />
and entrepreneur. His innovative development work has introduced<br />
new mixed-use housing types, “infill” subdivisions, Transit-Oriented Developments,<br />
Community Supported Agriculture, affordable housing, adaptivereuse,<br />
and vibrant public spaces in the communities in which he has worked.<br />
Chris has pursued significant research on the areas <strong>of</strong> urbanism, housing and<br />
community-based design practices through published investigations tied<br />
to teaching at numerous universities throughout the United States, Mexico<br />
and Latin America. He received the prestigious Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s<br />
Graduate <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> Design in 2011-2012, w<strong>here</strong> he spent the year in residence<br />
investigating affordable housing delivery mechanisms, urban design theories,<br />
Landscape Urbanism, and Green Infrastructure design strategies. He<br />
holds a B.A., Honors, in Urban Theory and Design from Brown <strong>University</strong> and<br />
his Master <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong> from Princeton <strong>University</strong>.<br />
RODOLFO AGUILAR is a Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Practice<br />
in the Freeman <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> Business at<br />
<strong>Tulane</strong> <strong>University</strong>. He has a BS in Architectural<br />
Engineering and a Bachelor and Master<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong> from Louisiana State<br />
<strong>University</strong>, An MBA from <strong>Tulane</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />
Freeman <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> Business and a PhD in<br />
Civil Engineering from North Carolina State<br />
<strong>University</strong>. Rudi is former Chairman and<br />
CEO <strong>of</strong> Pyburn & Odom, and current Chairman, President and CEO <strong>of</strong> The<br />
Aguilar Group, real estate appraisers. Rudi teaches within the MBA program<br />
and within the MSRED program as well as in the Executive MBA program<br />
through the Freeman <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> Business.<br />
WILLIAM B. BRADSHAW II is co-founder<br />
and president <strong>of</strong> Green Coast Enterprises<br />
(GCE). For the last decade, he has developed<br />
real estate in North Carolina, Massachusetts,<br />
and Louisiana. His projects have<br />
received numerous awards including a 2001<br />
Maxwell Award <strong>of</strong> Excellence from the Fannie<br />
Mae Foundation. As a GCE co-founder,<br />
Will was named an Echoing Green fellow for<br />
2008-2010. GCE’s work has also been celebrated by Social Entrepreneurs <strong>of</strong><br />
New Orleans, All Day Buffet, CityBusiness, Fast Company magazine, and Business<br />
Week, which named Bradshaw and co-founder Reuben Teague as two <strong>of</strong><br />
the 25 most promising social entrepreneurs in the United States. Bradshaw<br />
holds a PhD in City Planning with specialties in Regional and Urban Economics<br />
and Sustainable Community Development from MIT. He also holds Masters<br />
Degrees in City Planning and Real Estate Development from the MIT and degrees<br />
in Physics and Cross-Cultural Studies from Davidson College.<br />
MAURICE COX is a nationally respected<br />
community designer and leader <strong>of</strong> the public<br />
interest design movement. Maurice is the<br />
director <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Tulane</strong> City Center as well<br />
as the associate dean for community engagement<br />
at the <strong>Tulane</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong>. Cox, studied architecture at<br />
Cooper Union in New York. A co-founder <strong>of</strong><br />
the national SEED (Social, Economic, Environmental, Design) Network, Cox<br />
served as design director <strong>of</strong> the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington,<br />
DC from 2007-2010. In that capacity, he led the Mayor’s Institute on<br />
City Design, the Governor’s Institute on Community Design and oversaw the<br />
award <strong>of</strong> more than $2 million a year in NEA design grants across the United<br />
States. Fast Company business magazine named Cox one <strong>of</strong> America’s “20<br />
Masters <strong>of</strong> Design” for his practice <strong>of</strong> “democratic design.” Cox’s appreciation<br />
<strong>of</strong> the civic process led him to serve as city councilmember and then mayor <strong>of</strong><br />
the City <strong>of</strong> Charlottesville from 1996-2004.
MARILYN FELDMEIER possesses over<br />
eighteen years <strong>of</strong> experience in designing<br />
and implementing architectural, interior,<br />
landscaping and campus planning projects<br />
for hotels and resorts. In her role as<br />
Project Lead and Designer she has been<br />
responsible for master-plan programming,<br />
development, and design as well as project<br />
coordination <strong>of</strong> design, production and<br />
construction teams. Marilyn’s work can be found at The Broadmoor, Colorado<br />
Springs, CO; The Don CeSar, St. Petersburg Beach, FL; Kingsmill Resort,<br />
Williamsburg, VA and The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, WV. In addition,<br />
she is a Registered Architect consulting on resort and hotel properties with<br />
TAG Studio and as a principal <strong>of</strong> Studio FG. Marilyn was educated at <strong>Tulane</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> w<strong>here</strong> she received a Bachelor and Master <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong>. She<br />
also attended the London <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> Economics w<strong>here</strong> she earned a Master <strong>of</strong><br />
Science in City Design and Social Science.<br />
MICHAEL GROTE is a real estate developer,<br />
architecturally trained designer and builder<br />
focused on community design and development.<br />
Mike has worked on the Gulf Coast<br />
in both Mississippi and Louisiana since<br />
2006 with various organizations in several<br />
capacities including university instruction,<br />
architecture, construction management<br />
and development. Since 2008 Mike has<br />
worked for Alembic Community Development and is currently the Director<br />
<strong>of</strong> Building Programs managing the design and construction aspects <strong>of</strong><br />
Alembic’s developments. Mike holds a Master <strong>of</strong> Building Construction with<br />
a Minor in Community Planning from Auburn <strong>University</strong> and a Bachelor <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Architecture</strong> from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Houston.<br />
JONATHAN LEIT is a real estate developer<br />
and urban planner focused on working on<br />
revitalizing neighborhoods. Since 2007, he<br />
has served as Director <strong>of</strong> the New Orleans<br />
<strong>of</strong>fice at Alembic Community Development,<br />
w<strong>here</strong> he develops affordable housing<br />
and mixed-use properties and provides<br />
capacity building and development services<br />
to nonpr<strong>of</strong>it organizations. Jonathan<br />
holds a Master in City Planning from MIT, a Graduate Certificate from the Center<br />
for Urban Redevelopment Excellence at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania<br />
<strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> Design, and a Bachelor <strong>of</strong> Arts in History from Columbia <strong>University</strong>.<br />
ANDREW LILES, AIA LEED AP is a native<br />
Mississippian, is an adjunct lecturer at the<br />
<strong>Tulane</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong>. He is also<br />
an owner <strong>of</strong> his own practice in New Orleans.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Liles’ education includes a<br />
Bachelor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong> from Mississippi<br />
State <strong>University</strong>, and a Master <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong><br />
from <strong>Tulane</strong> <strong>University</strong>. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Liles<br />
focuses practice in the southeast with projects<br />
ranging from large commercial to regional residential work. A LEED Accredited<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essional, he helped found what became the Mississippi Chapter<br />
<strong>of</strong> the US Green Building Council. He serves on both the Executive Board and<br />
the Board <strong>of</strong> Directors. Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Liles has been a project architect for both<br />
award winning and sustainable architecture, and now returns to New Orleans<br />
with his wife, Charlane, and their children, Amos and Owen.<br />
KELLY LONGWELL is a Director in the New<br />
Orleans <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> Coats Rose, w<strong>here</strong> she<br />
concentrates in the areas <strong>of</strong> real estate,<br />
affordable housing and taxation. She has<br />
represented developers and investors in a<br />
wide variety <strong>of</strong> projects including hotels,<br />
apartment complexes, <strong>of</strong>fice buildings, residential<br />
condominiums and retail commercial<br />
space. Kelly has been selected for inclusion to Woodward White’s Best<br />
Lawyers in America for Real Estate Law. Kelly has experience in real estate<br />
development, corporate and partnership taxation and tax-exempt organizations.<br />
Her experience with real estate development has focused primarily<br />
on representing and advising private developers and investors as to federal<br />
tax incentives, including the historic rehabilitation tax credit, the low-income<br />
housing tax credit, facade donations and real estate syndications. Kelly has<br />
also been involved in the structure <strong>of</strong> various real estate transactions, with<br />
an emphasis on maximizing the tax benefits. The diverse structures utilized<br />
by the parties to the transaction include Section 1031 tax-free exchanges <strong>of</strong><br />
property, sale/leaseback transactions, tax increment financing, and equity<br />
syndications. Kelly holds a LL.M degree in Taxation from NYU, a JD from LSU<br />
and a Bachelor’s degree from <strong>Tulane</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />
NEAL MORRIS is a real estate developer<br />
and attorney. He received his B.A., M.B.A.,<br />
and J.D. degrees from <strong>Tulane</strong> <strong>University</strong>. He<br />
is a Harvard <strong>University</strong> Loeb Fellow. During<br />
his year in residence in 2009-2010 Neal<br />
researched blight elimination strategies and<br />
lectured on affordable housing finance. In<br />
2000 Neal founded Redmellon Restoration<br />
and Development. The firm is a mission-driven company that focuses its efforts<br />
on large urban infill projects consisting <strong>of</strong> single-family and two-family<br />
homes. In 2006 Redmellon was awarded the Innovation in Housing Award<br />
from the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency. In the past several years Redmellon<br />
has renovated or developed over 400 units <strong>of</strong> affordable housing in New<br />
Orleans. Redmellon’s current project is the historic rehabilitation <strong>of</strong> 51 units<br />
<strong>of</strong> formerly blighted singles and doubles in the Carrolton, H<strong>of</strong>fman Triangle,<br />
and 7th Ward neighborhoods utilizing low income housing tax credits, historic<br />
rehabilitation tax credits, and NSP2 funds.<br />
2013-2014 MASTER OF SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT FACULTY 2
BYRON J. MOUTON is an established architect,<br />
educator, New Orleans native,<br />
and alumnus <strong>of</strong> <strong>Tulane</strong> <strong>University</strong>. He has<br />
traveled a path from New Orleans through<br />
Harvard’s Graduate <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> Design to<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essional practice in Central Europe,<br />
and eventually back home. He now finds<br />
himself committed to building his locallybased<br />
practice BILD Design, in conjunction<br />
with his academic role as Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Practice at <strong>Tulane</strong>’s <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong>,<br />
Director <strong>of</strong> the school’s design/build program URBANbuild and as<br />
the recently appointed ‘New Day Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Social Entrepreneurship’. With<br />
more than 20 years <strong>of</strong> experience in the fields <strong>of</strong> architecture and construction,<br />
several award-winning projects, and exposure in national and international<br />
publications, Byron is committed to critical assignments that exemplify<br />
a collaborative planning approach and a dedication to the regional remediation<br />
<strong>of</strong> New Orleans. Over the past 14 years, as Principal <strong>of</strong> BILD, Byron has<br />
explored alternative models for affordable housing within the context <strong>of</strong> the<br />
city’s sometimes peculiar setting, and he continues to <strong>of</strong>fer the city progressive<br />
options for domestic growth in the face <strong>of</strong> on-going challenges.<br />
CASIUS PEALER is Principal <strong>of</strong> Oyster Tree<br />
Consulting L3C. Oyster Tree specializes in<br />
supporting public agencies and nonpr<strong>of</strong>it<br />
developers using green building as an additional<br />
tool to achieve long-term affordable<br />
housing solutions. Casius has 14 years<br />
<strong>of</strong> community development experience, including<br />
five years as legal counsel for public<br />
housing authorities across the country<br />
implementing mixed-finance redevelopment projects. Casius served as the<br />
first Director <strong>of</strong> Affordable Housing at the U.S. Green Building Council and<br />
is a Senior Sustainable Building Advisor for the Affordable Housing Institute<br />
in Boston. Casius is 2011 Chair <strong>of</strong> the American Institute <strong>of</strong> Architects (AIA)<br />
Housing Committee and is a board member <strong>of</strong> the Association for Community<br />
Design, a national nonpr<strong>of</strong>it organization <strong>of</strong> community-based architects and<br />
designers. He has been published in the ABA Journal <strong>of</strong> Affordable Housing<br />
and Community Development Law as well as the AIA Journal <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong><br />
and Architectural Record, and is a regular speaker at pr<strong>of</strong>essional conferences<br />
nationally. Casius holds a Masters in <strong>Architecture</strong> from <strong>Tulane</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s<br />
<strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong> and a J.D. from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Michigan Law <strong>School</strong>.<br />
JASON NEVILLE is an urban planner and<br />
redevelopment pr<strong>of</strong>essional whose passion<br />
is working together with people to<br />
make cities better. Jason is currently Senior<br />
Planner at the New Orleans Redevelopment<br />
Authority, developing strategies<br />
for sustainable redevelopment <strong>of</strong> NORA’s<br />
vacant lot portfolio. Jason also worked as<br />
planner and project manager for the Community<br />
Redevelopment Agency <strong>of</strong> Los Angeles from 2007-2012, focusing on<br />
industrial land use, Los Angeles River Revitalization, the City <strong>of</strong> Los Angeles’<br />
clean technology attraction strategy, and community redevelopment in<br />
South Los Angeles. He received an undergraduate degree in Urban Studies<br />
from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> New Orleans and a graduate degree in Urban Planning<br />
from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Southern California.<br />
AMBER SEELY is an urban redevelopment<br />
pr<strong>of</strong>essional engaged in real estate development,<br />
community development, urban<br />
planning and public policy. For five years<br />
she focused on real estate development for<br />
a quasi-public entity and a non-pr<strong>of</strong>it organization.<br />
Building on her real estate finance<br />
and underwriting work, Amber became a<br />
certified real estate market analyst and consulted with a variety <strong>of</strong> clients to<br />
strengthen real estate development proposals throughout the New Orleans<br />
region post-Katrina. She is now the Interim Director <strong>of</strong> Economic Development<br />
for the Regional Planning Commission, coordinating long-term planning<br />
in the five-parish region. Amber holds a Masters in Urban Policy from The<br />
New <strong>School</strong> and an Urban Redevelopment Certificate from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Pennsylvania <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> Design.<br />
CORNELIUS PAYNE is the Lead Real Estate<br />
Developer for the Housing Authority<br />
<strong>of</strong> New Orleans. He previously worked as<br />
a Project Manager for Gulf Coast Housing<br />
Partnership (GCHP), a local non-pr<strong>of</strong>it<br />
real estate development company, w<strong>here</strong><br />
he developed over 200 units <strong>of</strong> affordable<br />
and mixed-income housing in Baton<br />
Rouge and New Orleans. Prior to GCHP,<br />
Payne also worked as an Assistant Project Manager at Enterprise Community<br />
Partners (ECP) in their Gulf Coast Office based in New Orleans. While<br />
at ECP, Payne redeveloped the Lafitte Public Housing Redevelopment. Additionally,<br />
Cornelius has held a number <strong>of</strong> positions throughout his career,<br />
with the New York City Housing Development Corporation, the FDIC, and<br />
the Southern <strong>University</strong> System, Office <strong>of</strong> the President. Mr. Payne received<br />
a Master <strong>of</strong> Science with Distinction in Real Estate Development from Columbia<br />
<strong>University</strong> in New York City; and a Bachelor <strong>of</strong> Science degree in<br />
Business Economics and Finance from Southern <strong>University</strong> in Baton Rouge.<br />
ALEXANDRA STROUD has over twenty<br />
years <strong>of</strong> experience as a licensed architect<br />
and real estate pr<strong>of</strong>essional specializing in<br />
financial and feasibility analysis, development<br />
implementation and project management.<br />
Urban Focus LLC, her company,<br />
provides strategic real estate development<br />
consulting services for communities and<br />
municipalities. Her experience includes affordable housing financing, mixed<br />
income and transit oriented development. Working in communities in New<br />
Orleans and the surrounding region, Washington, DC; Jacksonville, Boston,<br />
Detroit, Minneapolis-St Paul, Maryland, Northern Virginia and Oklahoma City,<br />
she has worked as a real estate pr<strong>of</strong>essional and developer financing complex<br />
and large scale development opportunities in urban areas. Ms Stroud’s firm is<br />
based in New Orleans, Louisiana with an <strong>of</strong>fice in Washington D.C. Ms. Stroud<br />
holds a Master <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong> from <strong>Tulane</strong> <strong>University</strong> and a Master <strong>of</strong> Science<br />
in Real Estate Development from MIT. Ms. Stroud is a LEED Accredited<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essional.<br />
2013-2014 MASTER OF SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT FACULTY 3
JOHN STUBBS served as Vice President<br />
for Field Projects from 1990 until 2011 at<br />
the World Monuments Fund (WMF) in New<br />
York, w<strong>here</strong> he directed scores <strong>of</strong> the organization’s<br />
projects across the world. He<br />
conducted over two dozen international<br />
planning symposia and charettes, and was<br />
instrumental in the establishment and early<br />
management <strong>of</strong> WMF’s famed Watch List<br />
<strong>of</strong> endangered sites program. Prior to the WMF, Stubbs served for twenty<br />
years as an Adjunct Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Historic Preservation in Columbia<br />
<strong>University</strong>’s Graduate Program in <strong>Architecture</strong>, Planning and Preservation. He<br />
has also taught preservation documentation and design studios at both Columbia<br />
and the <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong> at Louisiana State <strong>University</strong> (LSU). He<br />
holds a Master <strong>of</strong> Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia <strong>University</strong>, a<br />
Bachelor <strong>of</strong> Science in Construction Technology with a minor in Architectural<br />
History from LSU, and attained post-graduate training as a UNESCO Fellow<br />
at the International Centre for the Conservation and Restoration <strong>of</strong> Cultural<br />
Property in Rome. In 1978, John Stubbs worked as a Historical Architect for<br />
the Technical Preservation Services Division <strong>of</strong> the U.S. Department <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Interior in Washington, D.C. administering federal tax incentives for rehabilitating<br />
historic buildings. He later went on to serve as Assistant Director <strong>of</strong><br />
Historic Preservation Projects at Beyer Blinder Belle in New York for ten years,<br />
and as a Trustee <strong>of</strong> the Archaeological Institute <strong>of</strong> America. He is a founding<br />
board member <strong>of</strong> the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation to which<br />
he was also named its chairman in 2008.<br />
JONATHAN TATE is principal <strong>of</strong> Office <strong>of</strong><br />
Jonathan Tate (OJT), an architecture and<br />
urban design practice in New Orleans. His<br />
projects and research encompass investigations<br />
into opportunistic urban development—informal<br />
settlements, infill housing,<br />
ecological infrastructure, etc.—and their<br />
spatial and cultural implications in cities<br />
worldwide. His works with OJT, and in previous<br />
<strong>of</strong>fices, includes a wide variety <strong>of</strong> project and program types, and have<br />
been extensively published nationally and internationally. Jon is a graduate<br />
<strong>of</strong> Auburn <strong>University</strong>, w<strong>here</strong> he also participated in the Rural Studio, and the<br />
Harvard <strong>University</strong> Graduate <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> Design.<br />
SARA MEADOWS TOLLESON is a senior<br />
project manager at Gulf Coast Housing<br />
Partnership, a New Orleans-based nonpr<strong>of</strong>it<br />
real estate development company. Her<br />
portfolio at GCHP has included affordable<br />
multifamily, commercial and mixed-use<br />
projects in Louisiana and Mississippi. Previously,<br />
she was the Deputy Regional Director<br />
for Gulf Coast Rebuilding for the Office <strong>of</strong><br />
Federal Coordination in post-Katrina New Orleans and the Program Coordinator<br />
for Keep Austin Beautiful in Austin, Texas. Sara Meadows received her B.A.<br />
in Art History from the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Mississippi and holds a Master’s <strong>of</strong> Public<br />
Affairs from the LBJ <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> Public Affairs at UT- Austin. She was a 2007-<br />
2008 Fellow in the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania’s Center for Urban Redevelopment<br />
Excellence (CUREX) fellowship program.<br />
PRISCA WEEMS is Founder and Managing<br />
Partner <strong>of</strong> FuturePro<strong>of</strong>. Prisca works<br />
with the development community to integrate<br />
sustainable design and LID practices<br />
in residential, commercial and government<br />
sector projects with aggressive sustainability<br />
goals, as well as providing strategy<br />
and oversight in the design and execution<br />
<strong>of</strong> community and regional-scale initiatives.<br />
She has practiced as a design pr<strong>of</strong>essional in the US and Europe since 1995<br />
and is currently focused on sustainability master planning and green infrastructure,<br />
including working with municipalities to develop policies and funding<br />
structures to support progressive development practices. Prisca holds a<br />
Master <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong> from <strong>Tulane</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Architecture</strong>, a postgraduate<br />
degree in Advanced Environmental and Energy Sciences from the<br />
Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales/<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> East London, and is<br />
a LEED Accredited Pr<strong>of</strong>essional, Living Building Ambassador, and Enterprise<br />
Green Communities National Technical Assistance Provider.<br />
JOY WILLIG has over twenty years <strong>of</strong> experience<br />
as an attorney and senior advisor<br />
specializing in real estate development and<br />
finance, with significant expertise in legal<br />
analysis, negotiation and problem solving.<br />
She has served as Senior Vice President<br />
and Counsel and as a senior executive <strong>of</strong><br />
multiple state agencies in New York State,<br />
as Advisor to the Director <strong>of</strong> Real Estate Planning and Development for the<br />
Housing Authority <strong>of</strong> New Orleans, and Development Consultant to HRI Properties.<br />
Ms. Willig has been instrumental in the financial and legal structuring<br />
<strong>of</strong> complex multi-family housing in New York City, New York State and New<br />
Orleans, Louisiana. Ms. Willig has a JD from Cardozo Law <strong>School</strong> and a BS<br />
from Cornell <strong>University</strong>.<br />
2013-2014 MASTER OF SUSTAINABLE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT FACULTY 4