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Team Roster
Michael R. Davis, FAIA, LEED AP
Michael R/ Davis is a practicing architect and an
advocate for sustainable public policy. He was 2013
President of the Boston Society of Architects and
2015-2016 Chair of the Board of Trustees of the BSA
Foundation. For the American Institute of Architects,
Mike currently serves as Advocacy ambassador for the
National AIA Committee on the Environment and as a
newly appointed member of the AIA Board Government
Advocacy Committee. He participated on a national
AIA Materials Knowledge and Transparency working
group and was a contributing author for an April 2016
AIA sustainability white paper, “Materials Transparency
and Risk for Architects”. Mike has participated on or
led AIA Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT)
and Sustainable Design for Resilience Team (DART)
charrettes in Ithaca, NY, DeKalb County, GA, Augusta,
GA, Tremonton, UT, St. Helens, OR, Louisville, KY, and
Bath, ME, as well as the AIA’s first International R/UDAT
charrette in Dublin, Ireland. Mike’s recent professional
projects include a modular student residence hall at
Endicott College, a LEED Certified facility for Hosteling
International Boston in an adaptively-reused historic
building, and a deep-energy retrofit of public housing
units for the Boston Housing Authority at the Cathedral
Family Development, which achieved LEED Platinum
certification. He blogs about his firm’s work as signatory
to the AIA 2030 Commitment at http://mikedavisfaia.
wordpress.com. Mr. Davis advised the Boston Planning
and Development Agency as a Member and Chair of
the Boston Civic Design Commission from 1996 to
2018and served on Boston Mayor Thomas Menino’s
Green Building Task Force and Massachusetts Governor
Deval Patrick’s Net Zero Energy Building Task Force.
He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from
the Pennsylvania State University and a Master of
Architecture from Yale University.
Wayne Feiden, FAICP
Wayne Feiden is Director of the Center for Resilient
Metro-Regions and Lecturer of Practice at the
University of Massachusetts, principal of Plan Sustain,
Inc., a mission-driven planning consultancy, and past
director of planning and sustainability for the City of
Northampton. Wayne focus includes sustainability,
resiliency, regeneration, urban revitalization and strategic
community planning. He has served on dozens of
strategic planning teams in 19 states and five countries.
Wayne’s Rockefeller Bellagio residency (Italy), State
Department Professional Exchange (Malaysia), German
Marshall Fund fellowship (Northern Ireland, England
and Denmark), Fulbright Specialist fellowships (South
Africa and New Zealand), and Eisenhower Fellowship
(Hungary), and all had a strategic planning focus. His
research publications include “Urban and Regional
and Organizational Strategic Planning,” “Conservation
Limited Development,” “Building Sustainability and
Resiliency into Local Planning Agencies,” “Local Agency
Planning Management” and “Assessing Sustainability.”.
Wayne is a fellow of the American Institute of Certified
Planners and has won professional planner and
advocacy planner awards from APA-MA. Wayne has a
BS in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan
and a Masters in City Planning from the University of
Northampton Carolina.
Cheryl Morgan, FAIA
Cheryl is a licensed architect and Emerita Professor
of Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning
and Landscape Architecture of Auburn University. In
thirty years of teaching she worked with architectural
programs at Georgia Institute of Technology, Oklahoma
State and California College of Arts and Crafts. For
the last 12 years of her teaching career she was the
Director of Auburn’s Urban Studio in Birmingham,
Alabama. Under Cheryl’s leadership, the Urban Studio’s
Small Town Design Initiative Program worked with
over 75 small towns and neighborhoods in Alabama.
Morgan practiced architecture and urban design
in the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked with a
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number of firms including Environmental Planning
and Research, Gensler, and the Gruzen Partnership.
Before coming to Auburn in 1992 she was an associate
with the Berkeley firm of ELS/Elbasani and Logan.
Morgan’s professional practice now focuses on urban
design, community revitalization and graphic design.
She is also an experienced facilitator. Cheryl holds
two degrees from Auburn University: a Bachelor of
Architecture and a Bachelor of Arts (Sociology). Her
Master of Architecture degree is from the University
of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana. She is certified by the
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards
and is a member and Fellow of the American Institute of
Architects. In 2010 she received the Thomas Jefferson
Award from the Jefferson County Historical Commission
as well as being named to a Woman of Distinction
Leadership Award by Auburn’s Women’s Resource
Center. In 2011she was presented with the Alabama
Chapter of the American Planning Association’s
Distinguished Leadership Award recognizing her as
a “Friend of Planning.” In 2012 she received one of
Auburn University’s highest awards for Achievement
in Outreach. She is a member of the Rotary Club of
Birmingham which honored her in 2016 with the Spain
Hickman Service Award.
Jason Schreiber
Jason finds innovative solutions to complex mobility
problems, focusing on a balance of private needs and
public benefits. His efficient and cost-effective mobility,
parking, and demand-management solutions build
equity, increase opportunity, and improve community
and environmental resilience. In more than 22 years
as a transportation planner, he’s helped hundreds of
cities, institutions, and developers broaden options
for urban mobility. He’s shown governments from
Boston to Abu Dhabi how to manage parking in
difficult shared environments. He’s helped clients like
Partners Healthcare develop demand-management
programs that get people out of their cars and onto
transit, their feet or bikes. He’s led citywide plans like
Go Boston 2030, that use community-wide goals to
help focus mobility investments in ways that strengthen
neighborhoods’ sense of place, improve public health,
and get travelers where they want to go efficiently and
safely.
Jason and his wife spend their spare moments having
great fun with their kids, usually on another urban
adventure or just having a great time with family and
friends.
Erin Simmons, Sr. Director, Design Assistance
Erin Simmons is Senior Director of Design Assistance
for Communities by Design, a program of the Architects
Foundation. For more than 17 years, Erin has provided
technical assistance to hundreds of communities around
the world, leading democratic planning processes and
training workshops focused on empowering citizens to
create equitable, sustainable, and resilient communities.
Her work has been featured in hundreds of news articles
and publications, and she has spoken extensively as
a subject matter expert on the topics of participatory
planning, sustainability, and community revitalization.
Prior to her work with Communities by Design, Erin
worked as historic preservationist and architectural
historian for an environmental and engineering firm,
where she practiced preservation planning, created
historic district design guidelines, and conducted historic
resource surveys. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree
in History from Florida State University and a Master’s
degree in Historic Preservation from the University of
Georgia. Erin is an Academician of the Academy of
Urbanism in London, UK.
Joel Mills, Dr. Director, Communities by Design
Joel Mills is Senior Director for the Communities
by Design program. Joel’s 28-year career has been
focused on strengthening civic capacity, democratic
processes and civic institutions. This work has helped
millions of people participate in meaningful public
processes, visioning efforts, and community planning
initiatives. In the United States, Joel has provided
