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alumni achievements:

  • 2006 URBS graduate Chris Ko was recently selected to participate in Next American Vanguard, a 2-day conference of "the country's brightest young urban leaders," put on by Next American City, an urban-affairs magazine based out of Philadelphia, and Living Cities, their sponsor organization. He is also featured in the most recent issue of the magazine, where he recounts his unexpected love affair with Los Angeles and explains how his organization, reimagineLA, aims to attract more "innovative young urbanist" to social-impact careers in that city.
  • An article jointly authored by URBS alumnus T. William Lester, '99, has been published in the current issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs. Entitled, Why Regions? Why Now? Who Cares? the article is also available online.
  • Howard Kozloff, '97, Director of Operations for New York's Hart Hawerton since 2007, returned to Penn in spring 2009 to develop a course on urban real estate. Howard completed his Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation in 2002. He also holds a Masters of Urban Planning degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Howard's course, URBS 415, Urban Real Estate Markets, was enthusiastically received by students.
  • Marian Orfeo, a 1976 graduate of Penn’s Urban Studies program, is currently Director of Planning and Coordination for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA).  MWRA provides wholesale water and sewer services to 2.5 million people and more than 5,500 businesses in 61 communities in eastern and central Massachusetts.  This year, she is also President of the National Association of Clean Water Agencies, an association of public wastewater treatment agencies advancing water quality protection.  Marian resides in the Boston area with her husband and son and is always interested in talking to fellow alumni and current students
  • Corinne Packard '01 was recently named the Vice President of Development at the Hudson Yards Development Corporation, which is the New York City 501c3 local development corporation charged with spearheading the implementation of the Hudson Yards redevelopment program, which includes the extension of the No.7 Subway Line, the redevelopment of the MTA Railyards, as well as other development sites between roughly 30th Street and 42nd Street, west of 8th Avenue.   To learn more about the Hudson Yards project, check out www.hydc.org.  Prior to working at HYDC, Ms. Packard was a Vice President of the Financial Services division of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where she structured City incentives and discretionary capital investments in real estate and economic development projects throughout the five boroughs. 

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