Dan Burden
Principle, Walkable Communities

Dan Burden is the founder of Walkable Communities, Inc., a non-profit consulting firm in High Springs, Florida.  He has spent the last twenty-five years developing, promoting and evaluating alternative transportation and sustainable communities at nation, regional, state and local levels.  He specializes in transportation and land use planning, research and implementation of pedestrian bicycle traffic calming and street improvement projects.  He has communications expertise in public involvement, design charrettes and visioning.  He serves as an expert witness and has produced videos on street design process.

Dan Burden's vision has been to assist business and community leaders in their quest to create streets, activity centers, business districts and neighborhoods for people.  He brings a message about creating community for people, not just cars.  His highly visual, information rich workshops, with National Geographic slides, showcase ways to plan and design better streets, town centers, and neighborhoods.

Richard Hall, P.E.
Hall Planning and Engineering, Inc.

Rick Hall is a practicing, registered transportation engineer dealing with planning, design and regulatory issues in the transportation field.  After earning his bachelors and Masters degrees in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech, he worked for the Florida Department of Transportation for eight years.  He served on the Miami Urban Area Transportation Study.  Mr. Hall later worked as the Regional Planning Engineer for the Tampa Bay Region.  His research work initiated the FDOT urban travel modeling process in wide use today.  Mr. Hall assisted in the development for the first planned community in Seaside Florida.

Since becoming a consultant in 1980, Mr. Hall has worked on a variety of projects including urban transportation plans, developments of regional impact, service analysis and transportation/land use interrelationships.

Scott Lewendon
Clough Harbor Associates LLP

Scott Lewendon has been practicing landscape architecture in the public and private sectors since 1970.  He has developed extensive experience with integrating pedestrian, bicycle and transportation facilities into communities and downtown's.  Scott has worked on master Planning and redevelopment projects in Albany, Somerset County NJ, Grand Rapids, MI, Oyster Bay, Port Jefferson, Gerard Street, Huntington and Port Washington.

Alexander D. Latham
Principal ADL III Architecture

Alex Latham is owner and principal of ADL III Architecture located in Northport.  Alex has taken leadership in educating Long Island design professionals and residents on the best planning techniques and concepts from around the country.  Alex has worked these design practices on community based planning projects in Gerard Street, Huntington, Huntington Station, Wyandanch, New Cassel and with the Town of North Hempstead.

Eric Alexander
Program Director, Vision Huntington

As an advocate for Smart Growth planning practices with Vision Huntington and Sustainable Long Island, Eric Alexander has coordinated community visioning processes most notably in Gerard Street Huntington and Huntington Station. 

Eric has over ten years experience in housing, community development and coordinating successful community projects.  Eric previously was the Assistant Director for the Town of Babylon's Community Development Program where he administered HUD's CDBG and HOME programs.

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Connie Kepert

Connie Kepert is an accomplished civic leader who has worked tirelessly to stem the tide of haphazard, overdevelopment, has pressed for a diversified, safe, and effective transportation system, and has moved forward the effort to create interactive community parks.

As a civic leader, Connie has concentrated on solving problems through a participatory process which brings people together, and encourages the building of a community vision. Connie Kepert has pressed for policies which encourage sustainable development, steer development away from sensitive sites, and into centers, and create people oriented, equitable places.

For her work Ms. Kepert has received the Open Space Council Dennis Puleston Conservation Award, Brookhaven Townıs Women of the Year Award, Suffolk Countyıs Volunteer of the Year Award, the Woman of the Year Award from the Times Beacon Record, a Paumanok Bike Club Recognition award, and was recognized by the L.I Progressive Coalition as a ³Long Islander who has Made a Difference." Connie is a past President of the Affiliated Brookhaven Civic Organization, and currently serves as President of the Longwood Alliance, Chair of the Middle Country Road Renaissance Project, and President of the Middle Island Civic Association. Connie Kepert is married and has 3 children. Ms. Kepert teaches at Longwood High School, and holds a M.S. Public Policy, University of Oregon, a B.A. in Psychology from SUNY Oneonta, and Teaching Certifications in Social Studies, and Special Education.