APA International Division Executive Board

Chair

Jing Zhang, AICP

jingzhangaicp@gmail.com

Jing is a transportation planner at Morgantown Monongalia MPO, WV, where he manages the MPO's travel demand model, transportation improvement program, and transportation studies. Jing previously worked for the New York City DOT and the City of Anderson, SC.

Immediate Past Chair

Michael Kolber, AICP, PP

makolber@gmail.com

Michael Kolber is a senior planner for the City of Trenton, NJ. He worked for the NJ Departments of Environmental Protection and Community Affairs and served overseas as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Burkina Faso and as a Monitoring Specialist for the International Rescue Committee in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Vice-Chair at Large

Lyndsey Deaton, RA, PMP, LEED AP BD+C

lyndseyuo@gmail.com

Educated as an architect, planner, and urban researcher, Lyndsey Deaton is principally an urbanist, whose specialty is the study of cities, their public spaces, and their design as modes of social production, reproduction, and resistance.

Vice-Chair of Special Projects

Bruce Stiftel, FAICP, Ph.D.

Bruce Stiftel is Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Institute of Technology. He serves UN-Habitat as chair of the research and knowledge working group of Planners for Climate Action, as co-chair of the University Network Initiative steering committee, and as a member of the steering committee of the World Urban Campaign. He is a member of the editorial boards of International Planning Studies, J. American Planning Association, J. Comparative Urban Law and Policy, Planning Theory, and Town Planning Review. Stiftel was president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, editor of the J of Planning Education and Research, and founding chair of the Global Planning Education Association Network.

Vice-Chair of Financial Management

Michelle Tullo, AICP

Michelle is the Housing Justice Director in the City of Hudson, NY. She serves as the Director of the Hudson Housing Trust Fund and is a co-founder of Trillium Housing Trust. Previously Michelle worked in transportation and land use planning in New Orleans, LA and across the Gulf South. 

Vice-chair for Communications

Susannah Davidson

Susannah is a Community Planner with the US Army Corps of Engineers. In that role, she studies waste management topics including compost and recycling.

Student Representative

Carter Williams

Bio information to be updated