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speakers Continued from previous page Dr. Elizabeth George is a family physician with a commitment to sustaining patient well-being through healthy lifestyles. To have a bigger impact, in the past five years she has added a focus on community well-being through the non-profit MACWell (Mercersburg Area Council for Wellness). Dr. George’s earlier experiences included establishing a Maternity Clinic for patients without insurance – the clinic focused on healthy pregnancy and babies through life style education. She also served on the faculty of the York Hospital Family Medicine Program establishing their family centered obstetric care program. Matt Golas worked in daily newspaper business 35 years, including 20 at the The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he was Metropolitan Editor. He was also Executive Editor and Vice President of the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. In 2006, Mr. Golas founded PlanPhilly, now a six-year-old independent news gathering entity affiliated with PennPraxis, the clinical arm of the School of Design of the University of Pennsylvania. Former reporters and editors from The Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as citizen journalists, provide daily news coverage of the built and planned environment. Francis Hanney is Traffic Services Manager/ ADA Coordinator for PennDOT Engineering District 6-0. He has 15 years of experience in PennDOT District 5-0 and 6-0 and 7 years with the City of Philadelphia. Mr. Hanney holds a BS in Engineering from Temple University. He is an avid skier, hiker, and guitar player. April Hannon is the Enhancements Coordinator for PennDOT District 4-0. She has been with PennDOT for nearly 20 years and has contributed to a number of trail, bicycle, and pedestrian projects across the region. Hannah E. Hardy joined PEC in 2003 as the program manager for the Pennsylvania Water Trails Program. PEC is partnered with the National Park Service, PA Department of Conservation & Natural Resources, PA Fish & Boat Commission and other state agencies to implement this statewide program, which is recognized nationally. The goals of the program are to develop additional water trails in Pennsylvania and to build a cohesive statewide system of water trails. Ms. Hardy travels around the Commonwealth providing technical assistance to local project managers. Brian Hare is a 23-year PennDOT employee. He is the Chief of the Planning and Contract Management Division in PennDOT’s Program Center. Prior to that position, he served as Chief of the Design Services Division in the Bureau of Project Delivery and Chief of the Highway Quality Assurance Division in the Bureau of Design. Mr. Hare graduated from Widener University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1989. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania. Brian Harris currently serves as Township Manager / Secretary-Treasurer for Bushkill Township, Northampton County. He holds a B.S. degree from Penn State University and an M.B.A. from Alvernia University. Mr. Harris has over 10 years of professional experience in local government and currently serves as the President of the Northampton County Association of Township Officials, Secretary-Treasurer for the Nazareth Area Council of Governments and serves on the First Regional Compost Authority. Prior to Bushkill Township, he served as the Borough Manager in Marysville Borough Shane Hoover works for the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and is the GIS\Information Technology Coordinator for the Bureau of Recreation and Conservation. Mr. Hoover has been with the Bureau for the past 12 years leading many of the information technology projects as well as creating a statewide grant GIS layer of DCNR funded projects. Mike Horne has worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for 15 years in a variety of capacities. For the past two years he has served as the project leader for the Wallkill River, Cherry Valley, and Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge Complex. His interests include landscape scale conservation efforts, watershed management, and working with herptiles, especially those that are imperiled by development pressure and loss of habitat. These interests, and his connection to the agricultural community, make him a natural fit in land protection partnerships along the Kittatinny Ridge. He obtained a B.S. degree from Juniata College in Biology and Secondary Education and a Ph.D. degree from the Pennsylvania State University in Wildlife Ecology and Statistics. Carol Hussa Most recently, Ms. Hussa was the project director for Steps to a Healthier PA - Luzerne County, part of the CDC’s first national efforts to build healthier communities on a local level using proven strategies to improve access to active living and good nutrition in order to prevent, reduce and manage chronic disease. She currently helps to coordinate the Wilkes-Barre Family YMCA’s Healthy Community program and is the Pocono Forest and Waters Conservation Landscape Initiative Coordinator for the Pennsylvania Environmental Council. In the past Ms. Hussa has worked in grant writing, fundraising and public relations for the Girl Scouts of Penn’s Woods Council, WVIA Public Television and Radio and Penn State Wilkes-Barre. 10
Andrew Johnson is Program Officer for the William Penn Foundation’s Environment and Communities program. In this role, he seeks to advance the region’s multi-use trail network as a means of connecting communities and contributing to the revitalization of Greater Philadelphia’s urban core. Mr. Johnson is also responsible for grantmaking to protect priority lands through innovative, multifaceted strategies in signature regional landscapes, including the Pennsylvania Highlands, the New Jersey Pinelands, and the South Jersey Bayshore. In addition, he handles most of the E&C program’s support for work in the city of Camden, New Jersey, and for state policy work in Pennsylvania and New Jersey focused on sustainable growth. Previously, he worked at the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, where he was chief operating officer and senior vice president, and in the policy office of New Jersey Governor Thomas Kean. Andy holds a bachelor’s degree from Gettysburg College and a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Michael Kaiser is a Penn State University Geography graduate with a long career in community and regional planning in the Lehigh Valley. Kaiser is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has served on the Pennsylvania State Planning Board and as President of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Planning Association. Mr. Kaiser received the Pennsylvania Planning Association Professional Planner Distinguished Leadership Award in 1995 and the Dallas Dollase Award for Excellence in Planning in 2010. Bill Kern is a native and current resident of northeast Pennsylvania. He has an undergraduate degree in Biology from Ithaca College and a Master’s in Environmental Studies from Brown University. Mr. Kern has been the Executive Director of Countryside Conservancy for 2.5 years. Prior to that, he worked in public relations and grassroots organizing for large-scale wind and solar projects. Larry Knutson is owner of Penn Trails L.L.C., which is a member of the Professional Trail Builders Association (PTBA), North America’s largest private sector group of professional trail specialists, contractors, designers and consultants. Located in Newville, Pennsylvania, Penn Trails is involved in all stages of natural surface trails assessments, planning, design, construction and management for a variety of trail types and classes, including accessible hiking trails. Larry is serving a 3 year term on DCNR’s State Trails Advisory Board, where he is chair of the Accessible and Sustainable Trails Committee. His Accessible Trails certifications include training with Janet Zeller, the USDA Forest Service National Accessibility Manager. Penn Trails is currently involved in 2 different accessible trail projects in Pennsylvania. Diane Kripas serves as the Division Chief of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Bureau of Recreation and Conservation, Partnerships Division. She leads a division dedicated to fostering partnerships between nonpublic and public agencies to encourage the protection of Pennsylvania’s outstanding natural resources, develop a statewide network of greenways and trails, support Pennsylvania’s 12 designated heritage areas, and enhance river conservation and education. Ms. Kripas is currently leading the implementation of Pennsylvania’s national award winning Outdoor Recreation Plan: The Keystone for Healthy Living. She also serves as DCNR’s lead of Lehigh Valley Greenways since 2004. She has a B.A. in Community Recreation from Hood College and a M.A. in Recreation Administration from Temple University. Steve LaBrake is owner of Saucon Valley Bikes, a popular bike shop located in Hellertown and nearby the Saucon Rail Trail. He has thirty years of retail experience, thirteen as owner of the SVB. Mr. LaBrake is currently vice president of the Saucon Rail Trail Oversight Commission, a multimunicipal entity that manages the trail and its development. David Lange is Chief of the Conservation and Recreation Assistance Division at the National Park Service’s Northeastern Regional Office. He is the program leader for the office’s Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistant program, which offers technical assistance to organizations throughout the region, including a number of water trail projects. Mr. Lange holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS degree from Franklin & Marshall College. Trevor Lewis is a lifelong resident of Upper Black Eddy and son of Rick Lewis who has owned and operated the Homestead General Store for the past 32 years. The general store, located near the D&L Trail in Upper Black Eddy, is popular with trail users and residents alike. Continued 11
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