Date: Friday, November 3, 2023
Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm
Location: Roberta Steinbacher Atrium (First Floor), Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs, 1717 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115
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About This Event

The Norman Krumholz Future of Urban Planning Lecture Series is intended to recognize the legacy of Norman Krumholz and his approach to equitable planning and development, known as Equity Planning. While Krumholz’s legacy is known internationally, and he has been recognized as one of Planetizen’s 100 Most Influential Urbanists (2017), his influence is most notable in the City of Cleveland (Ohio). The 1975 Cleveland Policy Planning Report produced by the Cleveland Planning Department under Krumholz’s direction, advocated for strategies that benefited disinvested communities and sought to create places of opportunity for vulnerable members of the Cleveland community. Guided by the mantra of “providing more choices for those who have few,” this event recognizes, celebrates, and advocates for the role equity-minded practitioners, faculty, and students play in creating places of opportunity - then, now, and in the future. Join us for the relaunch of the annual Krumholz Lecture Series on the Future of Urban Planning. 
 

Agenda (Doors Open at 9:30am for Continental Breakfast & Refreshments)

10:00am Emcee/Host Welcoming Remarks

• Beth Nagy, MCP, Ed.D.- Associate College Lecturer of Planning Practice, Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs

10:00am Additional Welcoming Remarks

• Roland V. Anglin, Ph.D.- Dean and Professor, Levin College of Public Affairs and Education
• Clayton Wukich, Ph.D.- Associate Professor and Interim Director, Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs
• Wendy Kellogg, Ph.D.- Professor and MUPD Program Director Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs

10:15am The Legacy of Norman Krumholz

• Dennis Keating, Ph.D.- Emeritus Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs

10:30am Norman Krumholz’s Influence on Equity Planning in Cleveland: Past to Present

• Chris Ronayne, (‘96 MUPDD)- First Keynote Speaker, Cuyahoga County Executive, Cuyahoga County, Ohio

10:50am Panel 1: Equity Planning in Cleveland, Past to Present

• Moderator: Bob Jaquay, (MPA ’78, JD '81)- Former Associate Director, George Gund Foundation; Senior Fellow, Levin College of Public Affairs and Education
• Chris Alvarado, (MUPDD '99)- Director of Regional Collaboration, Cuyahoga County
• Keisha González- Senior Director, Social Impact Investing and Economic & Community Development, Cleveland Foundation
• Ricardo León, (MSUS ’15)- Chief Operating Officer, Cuyahoga Land Bank

12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch

1:15pm Norman Krumholz’s Influence on Equity Planning in Cleveland: Present and Future

• Joyce Pan Huang, (MUPDD ‘16)- Director of City Planning, City of Cleveland

1:30pm Panel 2: Equity Planning in Cleveland, Present and Future

• Moderator: Kathy Hexter- Associate of the University, Cleveland State University and Former Director of the Levin College Center for Community Planning
• Freddy Collier, (B.A. Urban Studies ‘97)- Senior Vice President, Strategy & New Initiatives Greater Cleveland Partnership
• Grace Gallucci, (MSUS ’04)-  Executive Director & CEO, Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA), Metropolitan Planning Organization
• Khrys Shefton, (MUPDD ’13)- Chief of Growth & Expansion, Birthing Beautiful Communities

2:30pm Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs: Carrying on the Krumholz Legacy

• Beth Nagy, MCP, Ed.D.- Associate College Lecturer of Planning Practice, Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs
• Robert Brown, FAICP- City Planning Consultant, Former Director, City Planning City of Cleveland

2:45pm Recognizing the Norman Krumholz Scholarship Recipients: Past, Present and Future

• Beth Nagy, MCP, Ed.D.- Associate College Lecturer of Planning Practice, Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs
• Connor Brentar (BAURS, ’22)-  MUPD Student, 23-24 Krumholz Scholarship recipient and President of the CSU Student Chapter of the American Planning Association

3:00pm - 5:00pm Networking Social Sponsored by Cuyahoga Land Bank

Continue the conversation with Old and New friends in the Roberta Steinbacher Atrium.
 

Event Participants 

Chris Alvarado, (MUPDD ‘99), Director of Regional Collaboration, Cuyahoga County
Christopher Alvarado is the Director of Regional Collaboration for the County of Cuyahoga, Ohio. He serves as the point person and resident expert for the County Executive on matters of regional service delivery and cooperation. Most recently, Chris was the Executive Director of Slavic Village Development (SVD), the community development corporation serving the 22,000 residents living in Cleveland’s Broadway Slavic Village neighborhood. Previously, Chris was a Strong Cities, Strong Communities Fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the U.S. serving the City of Cleveland’s Department of Community Development. He designed and implemented projects to turn vacant land from liabilities to assets owned and improved by citizens, businesses, and organizations. In Chris’s past capacity with the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, he developed methodologies for determining the economic, environmental, and social impacts of development, and coordinating environmental planning with economic development. Chris has helped create Bike Cleveland and EDWINS Leadership and Restaurant Institute and was their inaugural Board President and Board Secretary respectively. He is currently a coach for the Mandel Foundation-funded CDC Leadership Institute, serves on the advisory board of Cleveland Central Catholic High School, and was a past board member of the Center for Community Solutions.
 

Roland V. Anglin, Ph.D., Dean and Professor, Levin College of Public Affairs and Education
Roland V. Anglin's career spans more than twenty-five years of working in the public, educational, and philanthropic sectors. In all his professional positions, Anglin has focused on promoting economic and community development in and for low-income communities. Currently, he is Dean of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.
 

Connor Brentar (B.A. Urban & Regional Studies, Planning Specialization '22)
Connor is a second-year graduate student in the Master of Urban Planning and Development (MUPD) program. He is the President of the Student Chapter of the American Planning Association at CSU (CSU APA) and one of the 23-24 Krumholz Endowed Scholarship recipients. Connor is passionate about increasing affordable housing options and creating more equitable transportation systems and hopes to work with a Cleveland organization upon graduation in May 2023.

Robert Brown, FAICP, City Planning Consultant, Former Director of City Planning, City of Cleveland
Robert N. Brown is a city planning consultant with over 45 years of experience working for local government and serving community organizations, developers, architects and others engaged in urban planning and development.  He has specialized in writing zoning regulations and preparing comprehensive plans for urban and suburban communities. He has managed the planning aspects of several major transportation projects, including the Opportunity Corridor project.  He has spoken at regional and national conferences on subjects ranging from sign regulations to sustainable development patterns.

Freddy Collier, (B.A. Urban Studies ‘97), Senior Vice President, Strategy & New Initiatives Greater Cleveland Partnership
Innovative thought leader and strategic thinker with expertise and experience in urban planning, organizational development, public policy development, and strategic planning. Passionate about addressing the social, economic, and environmental conditions that impact the health of communities. Initiated and developed or acted in a leadership capacity for District, Neighborhood, Citywide, and Regional Planning efforts. A well-rounded human being; parent, husband, friend, coach, and mentor.
 

Grace Gallucci, (MSUS ’04), Executive Director & CEO, Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA), Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) 
Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) since July 2012. NOACA is the metropolitan planning agency for Greater Cleveland. Over the past 25 years, she also has been an adjunct professor and lecturer at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Northwestern University, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs; Kent State University, Department of Political Science, and Levin College.
 

Keisha González, Senior Director, Social Impact Investing and Economic & Community Development, Cleveland Foundation
Keisha González joined the Cleveland Foundation in June 2018 as the Program Officer for Community Revitalization and Engagement. In her current role, Keisha is responsible for supporting the foundation’s Social Impact Investing initiatives through the management of both current and future investment opportunities that will lead to equitable economic growth. She works in collaboration with colleagues to position the foundation’s strategy for community development innovation, supporting efforts to strengthen the sector’s capacity and appetite for innovative risk.
 

Kathy Hexter, Associate of the University, Retired at Cleveland State University 
Before retiring in 2017, Kathryn Hexter directed the Center for Community Planning and Development at the Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University. A planner and public policy analyst, her work has focused on the areas of affordable housing policy, community and neighborhood development, sustainable development, city and regional planning and civic engagement.
 

Joyce Pan Huang, (MUPDD ‘16), Director of City Planning, City of Cleveland
Joyce Pan Huang was appointed by Mayor Justin M. Bibb in 2022 as the Planning Director for the City of Cleveland’s City Planning Commission. Huang facilitates the development of the City’s long-range comprehensive plan, community-based neighborhood planning efforts, land use and zoning policies, public realm improvements, development review and other regulatory practices. She previously served as the Vice President of Community Development at MidTown Cleveland, Inc., an economic and community development organization for the City’s MidTown and AsiaTown neighborhoods. A transplant from the Rochester, NY area, Joyce has lived in the Cleveland area for 16 years including the Shaker Square, Ohio City and AsiaTown neighborhoods. As a 2nd generation Asian American and a child of immigrants, she fully embraces this identity, which has also shaped how she views city planning. Huang loves playground-hunting with her young child and husband, and she appreciates public art and well-designed, active public plazas and parks. Joyce holds a Master of Urban Planning, Design and Development from Cleveland State University’s Levin College of Urban Affairs and a B.S. in Sociology with a Minor in the Program in the Environment from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She currently serves as a board member of the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency, the Federal Reserve of Cleveland Community Advisory Council, the Cleveland Landmarks Commission, the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, and the Cleveland Citywide Development Corporation.


Robert Jaquay, (MPA ’78, JD '81), Senior Fellow, Levin College of Public Affairs and Education
Robert Jaquay currently serves as a Senior Fellow of the Levin College following a forty-five year public service career in Northeast Ohio. Bob has extensive professional experience in law, philanthropy, planning, community & economic development and municipal administration. Affiliated with the College in various capacities since the mid-1970s, he (like many of us) proudly claims Norm Krumholz as a mentor and role model.
 

Dennis Keating, Ph.D., Emeritus Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs
Dennis Keating is an Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies and Law. He is a former Director of the Master of Urban Planning, Design and Development (MUPDD) Program. He formerly served as Chair of the Department of Urban Studies, Director of the Office of Student Services, Acting Director of several graduate programs, and Associate Dean and Acting Dean of the College of Urban Affairs.
 

Wendy Kellogg, Ph.D., MUPD Program Director and Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs
Wendy Kellogg is a Professor of Urban Planning and Environmental Studies. Dr. Kellogg earned her Ph.D. (City and Regional Planning) at Cornell University in 1993. Her major fields of research interest are local government environmental protection, urban and regional sustainability, neighborhood sustainability, and Great Lakes water quality and land use issues.
 

Ricardo León, (MSUS ’15), Chief Operating Officer, Cuyahoga Land Bank
Ricardo León currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer for the Cuyahoga Land Bank. In his role, Ricardo oversees the day-to-day operations for the organization, supervises the senior leadership team, and works to build and maintain relationships across the community. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Baldwin Wallace University and a Master of Science in Urban Studies with a concentration in Economic Development from the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. Ricardo’s career has spanned the startup, corporate, and consulting industries prior to joining the nonprofit sector. He extends his leadership and community focus outside of the office through his participation on the MetroHealth Foundation Board of Directors, Fund for Our Economic Future Board of Directors, Front Steps Housing and Services Board of Directors, Neighborhood Family Practice Board of Directors, Hebrew Free Loan Association Board of Directors, the Western Reserve Land Conservancy Board of Directors, CHN Housing Capital Advisory Board, and numerous other community focused committees.
 

Beth Nagy, MCP, Ed.D., Associate College Lecturer of Planning Practice, Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs
Dr. Beth Nagy has over 20 years of professional and teaching experience in the urban nonprofit and public sectors in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Nagy focuses on urban planning and community development in historic urban cores. Within that context, Beth is interested in smart cities, mapping & analysis, data visualizations, urban schools, philanthropy and corporate citizenship, and community-engaged learning.

Chris Ronayne, (MUPDD ‘96), Cuyahoga County Executive, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Chris began his career in public service with the County Planning Commission where he developed community reinvestment plans and in Cuyahoga County government where he launched the Division of Employer Resources. Here, Chris saw the best of county government, where the private, nonprofit and public sectors worked together to achieve results. ​ 

In 2001, Chris was campaign manager for Jane Campbell, the first woman elected mayor in Cleveland’s history. At the City of Cleveland, he became Planning Director, where he led initiatives like the Cleveland Lakefront Plan and the Euclid Corridor. As chief architect of the Cleveland Lakefront Plan, he and his team engaged with 5,000 residents in the visioning process, secured tens of millions of dollars in state and federal funds, and laid the groundwork for projects that have received hundreds of millions in investment. Chris then served as Chief of Staff and Chief Development Officer in Cleveland where he oversaw over 5,000 employees and managed a budget of $1.5 billion.  

For 16 years, Chris served as the President of University Circle Inc. (UCI), a non-profit community service corporation. Chris achieved measurable results, transforming Ohio’s education, medical, and cultural district into a thriving complete community. He delivered more than 2,500 new and renovated neighborhood homes to the area, developed after-school and summer programs that engaged more than 10,000 students each year, helped bring a grocery store to a food desert and connected small businesses to Cleveland’s arts, education, and healthcare institutions. He stepped down from his role at UCI in 2021 to launch his campaign for County Executive.   

Chris serves on the board of Destination Cleveland, is Chair of the Canalway Partners Board of Directors, and is past Chair of the Port of Cleveland Board of Directors. In these roles, Chris was a leader on innovative projects like the Cleveland-Europe Express container service and  the newly completed Towpath Trail. 


Khrys Shefton, (MUPDD ‘13), Chief of Growth & Expansion, Birthing Beautiful Communities 
Khrystalynn Shefton is a problem solver whose foundation of empathy and attention to detail allows her to transform ambiguous data into comprehensive plans for neighborhoods. Like leading an orchestra, she conducts specialized disciplines to come together to achieve impact-driven projects. Her love for Cleveland has influenced her to put her skills to work to ensure that she contributes to the future of the city’s predominantly Black neighborhoods, maternal healthcare, and affordable housing.

At Birthing Beautiful Communities, Khrys is currently serving as the Chief of Growth & Expansion and manages the project to build the first Black-led free-standing birth center in Northeast Ohio. Her days vary from hosting community BBQs to attending planning meetings and providing building updates.

Khrys started a career in banking after graduating from Xavier University with a degree in Information Systems followed by an MBA from Baldwin Wallace University . Quickly, she realized her desire to impact Cleveland and its neighborhoods. To do that, she began a journey towards a Master of Urban Planning Design and Development degree from Cleveland State University with a focus on Real Estate Development.   

She has been recognized locally by Crain's Cleveland in 2018 as a Notable Woman in Real Estate and in 2019 as a Notable Woman in Non-profits. 


Clayton Wukich, Ph.D., Interim Director and Associate Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs and Associate Professor
Taught and directed MPA program at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Taught at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. Worked as a graduate researcher and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Disaster Management, conducting field research and analysis on multiple grant projects. Afghanistan War Veteran (former U.S. Navy Reservist).