Georgia Department of Community Affairs Jim Frederick serves as director of DCA's Office of Community Redevelopment. The office focuses on helping communities develop and implement strategies for improving local quality of life. Frederick has been with DCA for 10 years, having previously worked with DCA on various aspects of administration of the Georgia Planning Act. jfrederi@dca.state.ga.us 404-679-3105 Chrissy Marlowe coordinates the Regional Growth Management Initiative in fifty counties in North Georgia. She previously managed the DCA regional office in Americus, worked as a Regional Preservation Planner for two Regional Development Centers in southwest Georgia and as a private consultant with an art conservation firm in Atlanta. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from the University of Georgia and her Masters of Fine Arts in Historic Preservation from Savannah College of Art and Design. cmarlowe@dca.state.ga.us 706-425-3077 Martha Reimann has served DCA since 1990 and is the Community Development Coordinator in the Office of Community Redevelopment. In this role, Reimann provides technical assistance to local governments with consultant selection, capital facility and infrastructure planning, impact fees, urban design, land use planning, development law, and other aspects of community development. mreimann@dca.state.ga.us 404-679-3103     The Georgia Conservancy   Susan Kidd serves as TGC's Vice President, Education and Advocacy. TGC works with communities to plan for alternative approaches to growth that protect natural resources through its Blueprints programand conducts a number of education and advocacy activities. TGC is a statewide, nonprofit membership organization that strives to balance social and economic progress with environmental protection. skidd@gaconservancy.org 404-872-9229     Athens-Clarke County Richard Field currently serves as the Environmental Coordinator for Athens-Clarke County. He was formerly a senior public service associate and learning specialist at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education. His background is in community and natural resources planning. DickField@co.clarke.ga.us (706) 613-3530 ext 245     UGA Carl Vinson Institute of Government Danny Bivins provides expertise in a quality growth approach to the Community and Regional Development division. Currently, Mr. Bivins coordinates the Alliance for Quality Growth at the University of Georgia. He has experience in the field of design, historic preservation, preservation planning, quality growth, and strategic planning. bivins@cviog.uga.edu (706) 583-0856 Steve Dempsey, senior public service associate for the Community and Regional Development division of CVIOG, spearheads the creative group problem-solving laboratory and participatory design work. He also provides management consultation to state and local government recreation service delivery agencies. dempsey@cviog.uga.edu 706-542-3350 Joseph Whorton is the Director of Georgia's Rural Development Council and a Senior Fellow at CVIOG. His public service career spans over 30 years and has been devoted to issues facing community development at the local and regional level. His research has focused on creative problem solving techniques used to deal with intractable public policy problems. whorton@cviog.uga.edu 404-679-0567     UGA College of Family & Consumer Sciences Jorge Atiles is the Associate Dean for Outreach and Extension at he College of Family and Consumer Sciences and an associate professor and extension housing specialist with the Department of Housing and Consumer Economics. He works on issues related to housing quality, policy, development, and financing. His research areas include residential water protection and conservation, indoor air quality, and Latino issues in Georgia. jhatiles@uga.edu 706-542-4860 Tom Rodgers is a Professor of Housing and Consumer Economics. His interest areas include rural economic development, affordable housing, and residential water conservation. Rodgers is in charge of the The Georgia Institute for Community Housing, which offers communities a three-year program of collaboration and technical assistance. The Institute helps communities create and launch a locally based plan to meet their housing needs. rodgers@uga.edu 706-542-4161     UGA Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics Jeffrey Dorfman is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics in UGA's College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. His work focuses on the economics of development and farmland preservation, including research on the cost of community services, relative property tax burdens, and development impacts on local government finances. jdorfman@agecon.uga.edu 706-542-0754     UGA Georgia Center for Continuing Education           UGA Institute of Ecology   Laurie Fowler is the director of Public Service and Outreach for UGA's Institute of Ecology. As an environmental and land-use attorney, she serves on the faculty of both the Institute of Ecology and the School of Law. Fowler staffed the committee to develop Georgia's Greenspace Plan under Governor Roy Barnes, and frequently advises government and civic groups on tools and techniques for protecting environmental quality. lafinathens@yahoo.com 706-542-3948 Liz Kramer is a Public Service Assistant at the Institute of Ecology and the director of the Natural Resources Spatial Analysis Laboratory. Her work includes the use and design of Geographic Information System technology for the development of land cover and land use data and the integration of other spatial information for natural resource management and environmental planning. lkramer@arches.uga.edu 706-542-3577 Jamie Baker Roskie is the Managing Attorney of the Land Use Clinic, a joint project of the Institute of Ecology and School of Law. Founded in 2002, the Clinic performs legal research and writes ordinances for state agencies, local governments, and citizen groups. jroskie@uga.edu 706-583-0373   UGA J.W. Fanning Institute of Leadership David Mills is a public service associate with UGA and serves as the Director of the Office of Economic Development Assistance (OEDA). OEDA is a cooperative division of UGA's Business Outreach Services and Small Business Development Center, CVIOG, and the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership. Mill's areas of expertise and research interests are community economic development, strategic planning, leadership development, and rural development. dmills@fanning.uga.edu 478-329-4825     UGA Office of the Vice President for Public Service & Outreach Griffin Doyle Through the office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach at UGA, Doyle conducts collaborative projects involving multiple departments, organizations, centers, and institutes. gdoyle@arches.uga.edu 706-542-6175     UGA School of Environmental Design Eleonora Alcalde Machado is the Graphics Specialist for the College of Environment & Design at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. After receiving her architecture and urban design degree from "Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo Ritter dos Reis" in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, she moved to the United States to continue her studies and completed her masters' degree in landscape architecture at the University of Georgia in 2001. Eleonora's threefold interest developed into a thesis dealing with environmental graphic design and how graphics preserve a place's identity. emachado@uga.edu (706) 583-0908 Jennifer Martin Lewis is the Certified Local Government Coordinator for the state of Georgia. She has worked with downtown revitalization programs in South Carolina and Georgia for the past seven years. After receiving her art degree from the College of Charleston, she began her career with the South Carolina Downtown Development Authority providing facade rehabilitation drawings to Main Street cities. Most recently, she worked for the Georgia Department of Community Affairs as the Design Specialist for the Better Hometown Program - a small town revitalization effort in Georgia based on the National Main Street model. jmlewis@uga.edu (706) 583-8047 Pratt Cassity serves as public service associate for the Public Service and Outreach Office (PS&O) of UGA's School of Environmental Design. The PS&O office contracts with governmental agencies, non-profit agencies, and civic groups to carry out projects, conduct research, provide training, and deliver administrative services. pcassity@arches.uga.edu 706-542-4731     UGA Warnell School of Forest Resources Coleman Dangerfield, Jr. is Professor of Forest Economics in the Center for Forest Business in UGA's Warnell School of Forest Resources. His areas of expertise include forest production economics, non-industrial private forest landowner incentives, and public policy awareness and education. Dangerfield publishes on topics related to forestry economics and policy. dangerfi@smokey.forestry.uga.edu 706-542-7602 Jim Sweeney is a Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Service, Warnell School of Forest Resources, where he is responsible for oversight of the research and public service programs in forestry, wildlife and fisheries. Previously he was responsible for wildlife program direction for Champion. He has served on national committees on biodiversity, ecosystem management, incentives for private landowners, and science in the Endangered Species Act and published research on forest management and wildlife habitat relationships. jsweeney@smokey.forestry.uga.edu 706-542-2866     US Environmental Protection Agency   Mary Jo Bragan bragan.maryjo@epa.gov 404-562-8323