WORKSHOPS AND SPEAKERS

Great Parks, Great Cities: Celebrating 150 Years of Central Park will feature experts and innovators from the United States and abroad. In addition to plenary sessions each weekday morning, there will be four rounds of workshops during the conference: two on Monday, June 23 and two on Tuesday, July 24. To see descriptions of each workshop, click on the links below.

MONDAY, June 23

9:00 – 11:30am: Plenaries

1:00 – 2:30pm: Workshops Round One

3:00 – 4:30pm: Workshops Round Two

TUESDAY, June 24

9:30am – 12:00pm: Plenaries

12:30 – 1:30pm: Lunch Workshops

2:00 – 3:30pm: Workshops Round One

4:00 – 5:30pm: Workshops Round Two

WEDNESDAY, June 25

9:00am – 12:00pm: Plenaries Note: Seating is limited for this session. If you are registering after June 10th, we cannot guarantee a seat.

SPEAKERS

Reverend Calvin Butts, Ph.D., Pastor, Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York, NY

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Director of Garden History & Landscape Studies, Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY

Fran Mainella, Director, National Park Service, Washington, DC

Luis Garden Acosta, President, El Puente, Brooklyn, NY

Regina Peruggi, President, Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY

Steve Coleman, Executive Director, Washington Parks & People

Adrian Benepe, Commissioner, City of New York/Parks & Recreation

Doug Blonsky, Central Park Administrator, Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY

Brian O'Neill, Director of Partners, Golden Gate NRA, San Francisco, CA

Susan Rademacher, President, Assistant Director of Parks, Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Louisville, KY

Tupper Thomas, President, Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn, NY

Gifford Miller, Speaker, New York City Council

Philip Reed, Councilmember, New York City Council

Peter Harnik, Director, Green Cities Initiative, Trust for Public Land, Washington, DC

Jim Mann, Executive Director, Forest Park Forever, St. Louis, MO

Patricia O'Donnell, Principal, Landscapes, Charlotte, NC

Lynden Miller, Co-Chair, Board of Directors, New Yorkers for Parks, New York, NY

Marianne Cramer, Professor of the College of Environment & Design, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

David Burwell, Founder, Rails to Trails Conservancy, Washington, DC

Karen Hobbs, Senior Fellow, Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago, IL

Fred Kent, President, Project for Public Spaces, New York, NY

Kathy Madden, Vice President, Project for Public Spaces, New York, NY

Eunita Rushing, Executive Director, Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, Chicago, IL

Deborah Ann Trimble, Executive Director, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy, Buffalo, NY

Debbie McCown, Executive Director, Piedmont Park Conservancy, Atlanta, GA

Warrie Price, President, The Battery Conservancy, New York, NY

Wilbur McNeil, President, Weequahic Park Association, Newark, NJ

Mary Fox, Vice President of Capital Projects and Planning, Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn, NY

Peter Crumlish, Director, Partnerships for Parks, New York, NY

Bettijean Miller, President, Harlem Gateway Committee, New York, NY

Cynthia Nikitin, Assistant Vice President, Project for Public Spaces, New York, NY

Jonathan Kuhn, Director of Art and Antiquities, City of New York/Parks & Recreation

Matt Arnn, Director, NYC Metropolitan Initiative, USDA Forest Service, New York, NY

Sara Cedar Miller, Central Park Historian, Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY

Abby Ehrlich, Director of Programming, Battery Park City Parks Conservancy, New York, NY

Steve Parkey, Vice President for Development and Marketing, Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn, NY

Neil Calvanese, Vice President for Operations, Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY

David Schuyler, Professor of Humanities, American Studies, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

Siobhan McDermott, President, Strategic Management Consulting, New York, NY

Michael Washburn, President, Washburn Partners, New York, NY

J. Glenn Eugster, Assistant Regional Director, Partnerships, National Park Service, National Capital Region, Washington, DC

Dick Dadey, Executive Director, City Parks Alliance, New York, NY

Dan Campo, Department of City Planning, Philadelphia, PA

Anna Magenta, Forsyth St. Garden Conservancy, Inc., New York, NY

Christian Zimmerman, Assistant Director, Design and Construction, Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn, NY

Terri Carta, Manager of Community Partnerships and Programs, Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY

Joan Reilly, Community Greening Manager, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, Philadelphia, PA

Ellen Kirby, Director, Brooklyn GreenBridge Community Horticulture Program

Joe Cimperman, Councilperson, Cleveland City Council

Bill Berliner, Director of Horticulture, Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY

Alex Brash, Chief Urban Park Ranger, City of New York/Parks & Recreation

Charles Lord, Urban Ecology Institute, Boston College

Tim Tompkins, President, Times Square BID, New York, NY

Jerry Baum, Co-Chair, National Association for Olmsted Parks, Baltimore, MD

Laura Starr, Principle, The Saratoga Associates, New York, NY

Ron Boerke, Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY

Charles McKinney, Riverside Park Administrator, City of New York/Parks & Recreation

Meg Cheever, President, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

Melanie Forman, Vice President for Development, Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY

Joe Pupello, Director, New York Restoration Project

Barbara McTiernan, Senior VP External Affairs Concessions, Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn, NY

Amy Freitag, Deputy Commissioner for Capital Projects, City of New York/Parks & Recreation

Peter Carlo, Senior GIS Specialist, City of New York/Parks & Recreation

Brian Crockford, Director of Information Technology, Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn, NY

Gary Dearborn, Senior Landscape Architect, Central Park Conservancy, New York, NY

Dave Rejeski, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC

Ben Sawyer, Digitalmill, Inc.

Christian DiPalermo, Executive Director, New Yorkers for Parks

Glenn Phillips, Director, Prospect Park Audubon Center, Brooklyn, NY

Arnold Lehman, Director, Brooklyn Museum of Art

Leon Younger, General Partner, Younger & PROS Mgmt Consultants, Indianapolis, IN

Chuck Remington, Director of Education, National Audubon Society, Albany, NY

Sara Hobel, Director, Urban Park Rangers, New York, NY

Colleen Dunning-Murphy, Yale's Urban Resources Initiative, New Haven, CT