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CONTRIBUTORS
(Rudin Q&A, p. 26)
Brett Widness is the online editor of Urban Land. Previously,
he worked in online editorial at the Washington Post, AARP,
and AOL, now part of Verizon Media.
(GenAI, p. 29)
Lian Plass is a senior manager of urban resilience at ULI
and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. She
serves as vice chair of the American Planning Association's
Technology Division.
(Proactive Sustainability, p. 30)
Owen D. Thomas is the chairman and CEO of BXP, and
past chairman of ULI. He is a director of Lehman Brothers
Holdings and served as its first chairman from 2012 until
2013, when he joined BXP. Thomas is a director of the Real
Estate Roundtable, a member of the Executive Board of the
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, and a
member of the Economic Club of New York.
(Net Zero Imperative, p. 31)
Chris Perkes is a senior manager of ULI Greensprint based
in Austin, Texas. He leads the ULI Net Zero Imperative
(NZI), a multiyear initiative to accelerate decarbonization in
the built environment. The NZI program sponsors technical
assistance panels in a select number of global cities per
year and is designed to help building owners, cities, and
other relevant constituents reduce carbon emissions associated
with buildings, communities, and cities.
(Foundation, p. 32; Outlook, p. 40; UL10, p.48)
Ron Nyren is a freelance architecture, urban planning, and
real estate writer in the San Francisco Bay area. His articles
have appeared in Metropolis, Interior Design, Preservation,
and elsewhere. His novel, The Book of Lost Light, was a
2020 finalist for the Langum Prize in American Historical
Fiction.
(Impact, p.36)
Patrick J. Kiger is a journalist based in the Washington,
D.C., area whose work has appeared in numerous print
and online publications, including the Los Angeles Times,
National Geographic, Fast Company, Quartz, History.com,
HowStuffWorks, and PBS NewsHour. He is coauthor with
Martin J. Smith of the book Poplorica: A Popular History
of the Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, and Lore That Shaped
Modern America. He has written extensively for Urban Land
on the effects of technological change and social trends on
the built environment.
(Inglewood, p. 56)
Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine
writer based in Los Angeles. For more than five years, she
has extensively reported on the commercial real estate
industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset
classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends,
market commentary, economic trends, and new technologies
disrupting and revolutionizing the industry.
(Soundstages, p. 66)
Holly Dutton is a Brooklyn-based journalist who has
reported on real estate for more than 10 years. A Texas
native, she spent her early years in journalism covering local
politics and photographing professional basketball for publications
including the Houston Chronicle.
(Carter, p. 76)
Karen Jordan is a freelance journalist, filmmaker, and author
based in Los Angeles. She has contributed to The Atlantic,
Los Angeles magazine, and the Huffington Post.
(Title V, p. 64)
Michele Lerner is an award-winning freelance writer, editor,
and author who has been writing about real estate, personal
finance, and business topics for more than three decades.
She won the Platinum Award for the Best Real Estate
Article of 2020 from the National Association of Real Estate
Editors (NAREE) and the Best Freelance Collection Award
from NAREE in 2017.
(ULI Juries, p. 106)
Gretchen Sweeney is ULI's vice president for awards and
university programs. She holds a master's degree in city
planning from the University of Pennsylvania.
(Case Study, p. 113)
Katie Anderson is a ULI Case Study author and owner of
Pacifica Creative based in Portland, Oregon.
(New Towns, p. 122)
Richard Peiser was appointed the first Michael D. Spear
Professor of Real Estate Development in the department
of urban planning and design at Harvard University. He is a
former professor at the University of Southern California and
the author of Professional Real Estate Development: The ULI
Guide to the Business.
(Insurance, p. 129)
Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme is an associate director at
Moody's Analytics on the commercial real estate thought
leadership team, where she does research and outreach
focused on climate and ESG. Previously, she led climaterelated
thought leadership at Moody's ESG Solutions which
she joined through the acquisition of Four Twenty Seven, a
leading provider of data on physical climate risk.
(Office, p. 134)
Simon Chinn is the vice president of research and advisory
services for ULI Europe. Chinn is an urban economist with
an MSc in Urban Economic Development.
(YLG, p. 137)
Amanda Herzberg is the strategic communications manager
at Cushing Terrell. Her focus is on research, strategybuilding,
and process improvement. She is the
communications chair for the ULI YLG Americas Committee.
(Solution File, p. 140)
Chuck Schilke is a Washington D.C.-based real estate strategist,
developer, financier, lawyer, and real estate lecturer at
Johns Hopkins University who created the Georgetown University
real estate master's program.
(Back Page, p. 148)
Tommy Zakrzewski holds a PhD in civil engineering and is
a principal and director of building engineering physics at
HKS.
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