School of CED Speaker Series
SCED’s Speaker’s Series takes place monthly in SNHU’s Walker Auditorium located in Robert Frost Hall from noon to 1:45 p.m. These events are "free & open" to the public. Lunch is provided for those in attendance prior to the speaker's presentation. Each session is streamed live at 12:30PM. A campus map is available here.
Rashmi Rangan, Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council
View streamed presentation here
Sam Daley Harris, Results/Microcredit Summit
View streamed presentation here
December 11, 2009
Ilana Preuss, Transportation for America
Ilana is the Outreach Director for the Transportation for America Campaign, a broad, diverse and unprecedented coalition advocating for a national vision for a 21st century transportation system. In this role, Ilana leads the outreach and field organizing for the nationally comprehensive political campaign. She is responsible for recruiting a wide diversity of partners for the campaign to reform national transportation policy, and build constituency support to follow through with the campaign’s legislative strategy. The campaign seeks to build strong advocacy partnerships across the country from urban to rural, from big business to small shop, for every family and individual to ensure that transportation investments build our economy for the future.
The Transportation for America Campaign (T4America) seeks to reform transportation legislation in the coming authorization of 2009 or 2010. T4America works to ensure that transportation investments help us reach our national goals to improve the competitive edge of our cities and towns, strengthen our energy security by reducing our dependence on oil, reduce our transportation impacts on greenhouse gas emissions, and give our households a way out from rising gas prices through more transportation alternatives. T4America recognizes the need to incorporate voices from housing, health, development, equity, environment, labor, rural communities, business, cyclists and other advocates from across the country.
Ilana joined the Transportation for America Campaign after seven years in the smart growth division at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, most recently as director of the acclaimed technical assistance program. In that position, she worked with local officials, development and design practitioners and many others to assist communities in transportation planning, transit-oriented development, downtown and suburban redevelopment, zoning reform and other efforts. As a key player in the division, she co-authored publications such as Density in Your Community, and many strategies for local engagement on smart growth. Throughout her years at EPA, she contributed to numerous publications and events designed to build the knowledge base for smart growth.
Previous to working at EPA, Ilana worked as a Master Plan consultant and at an environmental advocacy NGO in Israel. Ilana received a Masters Degree from the University of Maryland in environmental planning, and a Bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in City Planning.
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