REINVENT REBUILD RECONNECT INNOVATION CAN HAPPEN THROUGH TURBULENT TIMES
Gregory Janey is president of Janey Construction Management and Consulting Co Inc. Mr. Janey has undertaken a variety of construction and renovation projects on a multitude of commercial and residential buildings. He brings a strong engineering background and has been actively working as a Construction Manager for over twenty five years managing projects ranging from $5,000,000 to $200,000.000. He previously served as an Executive Project Manager for Design and Construction at the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority. Mr. Janey holds a Masters of Science in Civil Engineering from Northeastern University and a Bachelors of Science in Construction Management from Wentworth Institute of Technology. James Arthur Jemison is currently a project manager for GLC development providing overall feasibility assessment. Prior to GLC Arthur served as a former senior project manager in the economic planning and development division of the Massachusetts Port Authority and a special assistant for planning and economic development in the office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development in the District of Columbia. Author received a Master on City planning, housing and economic development from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelors of Arts in social thought and political economy from University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Dale Joachim is a visiting scientist and communications technology expert at the MIT Media Lab where he heads the Ecology Media research group, which is exploring new roles sensor networks play in enhancing human interactions with natural environments. His expertise is in speech keyword spotting and unattended distributed sensors R&D projects at Sanders/Lockheed Martin and at Zenith Data Systems. In response to the earthquake in Haiti, MIT Media Lab students have developed a service that helps communities rebuild after a crisis by indexing the skills of local residents so that NGOs like the American Red Cross and Partners in Health can quickly find and employ them. Diane Jones is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at Morgan State University. With a focus on Environmental Justice, Community Design, and Art Expression, Diane will be traveling with her students to do a project in Haiti this October. She has a Masters of Landscape Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and Bachelors of Fine Arts from the Washington University, St. Louis. Senait Kassa, LEED AP has an extensive range of planning and architectural experience in her nine years of practice. She has worked on projects in the United States, the Middle East and Africa. Her designs emphasize the creation of spaces and environments that foster lively social interactions and the development of green buildings and communities. With a Masters in Community Planning,..
...Senait Kassa has expertise in dealing with master planning, urban redevelopment and urban design. She has also collaborated in research that dealt with transportation, land use and urban design issues. Renee Kemp-Rotan, directs Special Projects/Capital Projects, Mayors Office, Birmingham, Alabama; Former Chief Urban Design/Urban Development; Director Economic Development, Atlanta GA. B. Arch Syracuse, cum laude; MSUP Columbia U.; RIBA II Architectural Association, London. RKR, moved to the American South from London, New York, DC around 1996 to work for Corporation for Olympic Development, Atlanta and now oversees SPECIAL PUBLIC PROJECTS in addition to $175 million dollars of bond/nonbond construction projects for Birmingham’s current Mayor. As a master of architecture/imagination, she consistently blends urban design, heritage, and media savvy design with economic development projects on a major scale. She has served ten mayors of major American cites on issues of urban design, economic development and master planning (i.e. DC., NY, ATL, Bham.) She has directed more than 30 major master plans for predominantly African American communities over the course of her career. KempRotan was recently recognized by both Harvard University and Oxford University as a leading urban designer in their jointly published African American National Biography. She is author/editor of the Haiti Culture Code.
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