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New Director of Mayors’ Institute on City Design Named
WASHINGTON — The American Architectural Foundation (AAF) is pleased to announce that Jess Wendover will be the new Director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD). She will replace Aaron Koch as Director of MICD, who will pursue graduate studies in city planning at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in the fall.
In addition to graduate degrees from U.C. Berkeley in architecture and city planning and an undergraduate degree from Columbia in architecture, Jess brings extensive experience in the fields of design, public advocacy, and planning. She has served on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association and has been a Fellow of the Women’s Policy Institute at the Women’s Foundation of California. Jess is presently completing a Rose Architectural Fellowship at Urban Ecology, a non-profit organization in San Francisco dedicated to neighborhood revitalization and regional sustainability.
"When faced with needing to replace Aaron Koch, the very effective departing director of the MICD, I was concerned. But at the conclusion of our selection process, I knew that the program would be in excellent hands with Jess Wendover and that she would be able to build on Aaron's accomplishments,” said Ronald E. Bogle, President and CEO of the American Architectural Foundation, “Jess will be an outstanding colleague and I am confident that she will be an outstanding director of MICD."
"I am delighted that we were able to find someone of Jess Wendover's experience and caliber for this position,” stated Jeff B. Speck, Director of Design for the National Endowment for the Arts, “With degrees in both architecture and planning, and work experience in community development, housing, and even city government, she represents in a single person almost all of the myriad topics covered in a typical Mayors' Institute conference."
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