Jaime FearerAPA Health Equity & Planning Interest Group ChairJaime is currently Assistant Director of Planning for the City of Greenbelt, Maryland, where she and her team work to operationalize an equity framework through creativity, collaboration, and thoughtful planning. Previously, Jaime worked with DC Health's Office of Health Equity to incorporate a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach across the District of Columbia. She also served as Deputy Director of California Walks and founder of their Walk San Jose program. Jaime is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), and has served on a number of advisory committees and boards focused on land use, transportation, and equity. She currently volunteers as Chair of the American Planning Association Health Equity & Planning Interest Group; Trustee with the Washington, DC, chapter of the Awesome Foundation; and Secretary of the Board for the Wheatley Education Campus School Community Organization (SCO). |
Miguel Angel VazquezPHEAL Steering Committee ChairMiguel A. Vazquez, FAICP, is an award-winning planner with 20+ years of experience in the public, private, and military sectors. As a planning and health integration expert at RUHS-Public Health, Miguel partners with diverse stakeholders to advance planning's impact on health. His recognitions include the 2018 American Planning Association (APA) President's Award, the 2020 APA California Distinguished Contribution Award, and the 2021 Dale Prize from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He was inducted in 2024 into the AICP College of Fellows, the highest honor the American Institute of Certified Planners bestows upon a member. Miguel holds a bachelor's in Urban Studies and Planning from California State University, Northridge, and is pursuing a Master's in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University as a Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow. |
Belinda C. ChiuPublic Health Equity and Leadership Project ManagerBelinda C. Chiu, MSPH is a native New Yorker who brings a decade of experience managing programs that advance public health, social and environmental justice. She has been formally trained in qualitative research, equitable engagement and facilitation strategies, and has a passion for collaborating across sectors to build climate resilience through community-led solutions. Belinda has designed interventions and programs both domestically and in Latin America and Southeast Asia, and is excited to bring her project management expertise to PHEAL. |
Alena FirestonePHEAL Social MediaAlena Firestone (she/her) is a recent graduate student who is passionate about community engagement and planning for more accessible and equitable urban areas. She completed her masters from the University College London (UCL) at the Bartlett School of Planning, receiving a MSc International City Planning with a focus in Urban Transformation in Historic Cities. She wrote her masters dissertation on the value of intangible heritage preservation for community development efforts in North Philadelphia. She hopes to continue her work in community development, engagement, and heritage preservation moving forward and has been grateful to PHEAL for providing the opportunity to be a part of an ongoing effort to change the nature of urban planning. She joined PHEAL in Fall 2020 as a student member of the steering committee, and began in Fall 2024 as a PHEAL social media manager.
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Mehri MohebbiPHEAL Advisor & Founding MemberMehri is an accomplished urban planning professional specializing in sustainable planning, environmental justice, and inclusive workforce development in green development and climate resiliency. With over 15 years of experience, she has led initiatives across the U.S., Middle East, and Europe, including establishing the first nationwide Transportation Equity Program. Mehri actively engages stakeholders to address key issues in sustainable planning and workforce development. Her professional contributions have been recognized with several awards, such as the WTS Helene M. Overly Award. Mehri is the inaugural member of the PHEAL steering committee and serves on the TRB International Coordinating Council.
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Mallory Rukhsana رخسانہ NezamPHEAL Advisor & Founding MemberMallory Rukhsana Nezam is a cultural strategist who loves cities and believes that we have the tools to make them more just and joyful. Through her cross-sector practice, Justice + Joy, she integrates community development, art and cultural methods and urban planning to build new modes of creative, interdisciplinary collaboration to de-silo cities. She is also a co-founder of the Cross-sector Artists in Residence Lab (CAIR Lab) building a community of practice around artists-in-residence in government. She holds a Master of Design from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and numerous fellowships. She seeks to be in every room she’s not supposed to be in. |
Triveece PeneltonPHEAL Advisor & Founding MemberTriveece Penelton, AICP, NOMA, leads community engagement and long-range planning services at Vireo. She is also the creator of the Digicate® software application for community engagement. Triveece is an Inaugural Steering Committee Member of Planning for Health Equity, Advocacy & Leadership (PHEAL) and an alumna of the Racial Equity Institute. Her work has won national and state awards for engagement, communications, and planning along with a NOMA NAACP Seed Award for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) in Design. Triveece has over 20 years of experience. During 2022, she founded Penelton Interactive to provide JEDI consulting and professional development services. |
Christiane QuintansPHEAL Graphic CommunicationsChristiane is an Urban Planner with a passion for promoting health into over a decade of planning experience working with numerous community stakeholders, entities, and municipalities on different policy documents and general/comprehensive & specific area/master plans. She possesses a diverse set of technical administration and visual communication skills in her work managing GIS databases, providing research and analysis, and creating visual media and infographics for marketing and community outreach. Additionally she has organized and facilitated several planning workshops across Arizona and holds a Masters in Urban & Environment Planning with minors in sustainability, culture studies, and design. |
Kelly RodgersPHEAL Advisor & Founding MemberKelly is a Senior Transportation Planner in the Oregon Department of Transportation's Climate Friendly and Equitable Communities Program. She is also the Owner and Principal of Streetsmart Planning LLC, a consultancy dedicated to integrating climate, health, and equity into transportation. Kelly is the chair of the ITE Standing Committee on Health and Transportation and co-chair of the ITE People-Centered Mobility Great Idea Group. Additionally, she serves on the Transportation and Public Health Standing Committee at the Transportation Research Board. Currently, Kelly is engaged on a National Academies of Science consensus study committee regarding the data, metrics, and methods for evaluating transportation equity. Kelly has a PhD in urban studies, a master's degree in landscape architecture, and an undergraduate degree in urban and regional planning.
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