DAVID
BAKER
Vice President, External Affairs
Illinois Institute of Technology
B.A., Stanford University; M.A., Johns Hopkins
University
Since 1995, David Baker has been responsible for
IIT s community development, government relations, and
trusteeship. Previously, as president of The Illinois Coalition,
Mr. Baker was charged with the mission to strengthen Illinois
economy through science and technology. Additionally he has served
as the volunteer Chairman of the Metropolitan Planning Council,
Chicago s most prestigious non-profit planning agency.
Mr. Baker has 30 years experience in the management of non-profit
economic development agencies and associations. He has been an
avid birder for over 40 years, and is a member of both the Chicago
Ornithological Society and the Illinois Ornithological Society.
Randi
Doeker
President, Chicago
Ornithological Society
Founder, Birds & Buildings Forum
B.A., Masters, Public
Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder
After two decades in high technology industries,
Randi Doeker has re-focused her marketing expertise and interest
on the evangelism of bird-safe buildings and structures.
BRUCE
S. FOWLE,
FAIA
Principal and Founder, Fox &
Fowle Architects, PC
B.Arch., Syracuse
University
Bruce Fowle is the
founding principal of Fox & Fowle Architects, a New York
City-based architecture, interior design and planning firm. For
over two decades he has guided his firm to international
recognition for excellence in design and environmental
responsibility. The firm has been honored with numerous awards,
including from city, state and national AIA and the Society of
American Registered Architects.
The firm’s completed projects include the Condé Nast Building and
the Reuters Building in NYC, and the Industrial and Commercial
Bank of China in Shanghai.
As a long time proponent of environmental conservation, Mr. Fowle
helped guide his firm to a leadership position in sustainable
design. Among its achievements are the design of the first green
skyscraper in the country, the first green guidelines for
residential high-rises in New York, and green guidelines for a
number of institutions and regional transportation systems.
JEANNE
GANG, AIA
Principal and Founder, Studio
Gang Architects
Adjunct Associate Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology
B.A., University of Illinois; M. Arch., Harvard
University
LEED Accredited Professional
Jeanne Gang formed Studio Gang in 1997 after
significant experience as a senior designer in Chicago with BHA,
and in Rotterdam with OMA/Rem Koolhaas. Ms. Gang leads the design
teams at the firm and collaborates directly with clients. Her
focus on materials, technology and sustainability is supported
through a mode of working that combines practice, teaching and
research. Her work with Studio Gang has received national and
international awards and recognition.
In April 2004 Ms. Gang and colleague Mark Schendel
were selected through an international design competition to
design the Ford Calumet Environmental Center. Their design,
entitled "Best
Nest," uses nest-making as a metaphor for the team’s approach
to designing the sustainable building. The design uses a nest-like
woven façade to prevent bird collisions with the building.
Ms. Gang is also serves as a Facilitator at
Archeworks, Chicago's alternative design school where students
work in multidisciplinary teams with nonprofit partners to create
design solutions for social concerns.
ELLEN
DINEEN GRIMES
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
College of Architecture and the Arts, University of Illinois at
Chicago
B.A., M.B.A., University of Chicago; M. Arch,
University of Illinois at Chicago
In additional to her university position, Ellen
Grimes is a partner in e-squared, a design firm in Chicago.
She serves as the architectural consultant to the
Chicago Bird Collision
Monitor and Rescue Project.
MARGARET
HELFAND,
FAIA
Principal, Helfand Architecture
New York City
M. Arch., University of California at Berkeley
Margaret Helfand recently completed the new Swarthmore College
Unified Science Center project, which has received kudos for its
striking contemporary design as well as its many sustainable
features including innovative glazing designed to reduce bird
impact. She has
been recognized worldwide for her innovative approach to design of
institutional buildings, interiors, college campuses and product
design. Her work is honored in a monograph published by Monacelli
Press. She was elected to the College of Fellows of the
American Institute of Architects in 1998. She is a recipient of
the 2002 Rome Prize in Architecture. Her firm,
Helfand Architecture,
was founded in 1981.
Ms. Helfand was 2001
President of the AIA New York Chapter and founder of the Center
for Architecture in New York. She is also a founder and initial
Co-Chair of New York New Visions, a coalition of design and
planning organizations advising on the redevelopment of Lower
Manhattan after 9/11.
DANIEL
KLEM, JR.
Professor of Ornithology & Conservation Biology
Muhlenberg College – Allentown PA
B.A, Wilkes College; M.A, Hofstra University;
Ph.D., Southern Illinois University
For over 30 years Dan Klem has studied how and why
birds kill themselves flying into clear and reflective windows,
from tiny panes to entire walls of multistory buildings. A major
goal of his work is to develop a realistic solution to these
unintended tragedies, which he has found to number in the billions
worldwide.
In addition to his research and teaching, Dr. Klem
co-authored A Field Guide to Birds of Armenia.
SUZANNE
E.
MALEC
Deputy Commissioner, Department of the Environment
City of Chicago
B.S, University of Illinois; M.S.C, Northwestern
University
Suzanne Malec is responsible for the Department of
Environment’s Natural Resources and Water Quality Division,
including the Chicago Center for Green Technology and GreenCorps
Chicago, a citywide community greening and landscape industry job
training program. In addition, she is responsible for Mayor
Daley’s Landscape Awards Program and a variety of hands-on
environmental and horticultural educational programs and
publications for Chicagoans of all ages.
Ms. Malec is the author of City Trees: The City
of Chicago’s Guide to Urban Tree Care, a 36-page booklet on
urban forestry principles, maintenance and resource information.
Prior to joining the Chicago Department of Environment, she was
Urban Forestry Manager for Openlands Project, a Chicago-based
non-profit organization, where she focused on urban forestry
policy, technical assistance and education programs, and started
TreeKeepers, a citizen foresters training program. Additionally
she worked as a Horticulturalist at James Martin Associates, a
landscape architecture and contracting firm.
She is currently pursuing her PhD in Communication
Studies at Northwestern University.
ALBERT
MANVILLE
Wildlife Biologist, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Arlington, VA
B.S, Alleghany College; M.S, University of
Wisconsin, Stevens Point; Ph.D., Michigan State University
Al Manville is the US Fish & Wildlife Service’s
national lead on issues related to bird mortality both from
structures and from fishery impacts. He is chair of the
Communication Tower Working Group, the Wind Turbine Siting Working
Group, The Avian Power Line Interaction Committee Service Steering
Committee, and represents the Service on the Wildlife Workgroup of
the National Wind Coordinating Committee and on the Avian Power
Line Interaction Committee. In 1999, Dr. Manville received
the Conservation Service Award from the Secretary of the Interior
for bird conservation efforts with the electric utility industry.
Dr. Manville has testified over 35 times in
Congress and at other governmental bodies and conducted numerous
research efforts globally. He has published more than 110
professional and popular papers and chapters, and given more than
110 invited presentations. He has served on the Editorial
Advisory Board of the Nature Conservancy Magazine, was the
wildlife consultant for the Walt Disney/Touchstone production of
the movie White Fang, and has conducted hundreds of radio
and television interviews and been extensively quoted in the print
media.
He has held faculty positions at Michigan State
University, George Mason University and he currently is an Adjunct
Professor for Johns Hopkins University.
MEGHANN
MAVES,
Allied Member, ASID
Intern,
Chicago Center for Green Technology
Associate Designer,
Marc t. Nielsen
Interiors - Valparaiso, Indiana
B.F.A., The Illinois Institute of Art at Chicago
In addition to her interior design activities,
Meghann Maves is currently developing educational programming for
the Chicago Department of Environment at the Chicago Center for
Green Technology. She will discuss a variety of designs she has
developed to ensure that CCGT is safe for birds.
Executive Director, New York
City Audubon
M.F.A., Poetry, Columbia
University; B.A., Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross
E. J. McAdams is the Executive
Director of New York City Audubon, a grassroots organization
whose mission is to protect and conserve New York City’s wild
birds and their habitat, while improving the quality of life for
all New Yorkers. Through its Project Safe Flight, founded
by Rebekah Creshkoff, NYC Audubon has worked tirelessly to
reduce bird collisions in the city.
Mr. McAdams is also a writer
who has published poetry in The Paris Review and other
journals, as well as essays on urban nature in the web-journal
Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood and other print journals.
MICHAEL
MESURE
Founder and Executive Director, Fatal Light Awareness Program
(FLAP) - Toronto
In 1993 Michael Mesure and a group of volunteers
formed the Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP), a volunteer
driven not-for-profit in Toronto whose goal is to provide safe
passage for migratory birds through urban areas. In 1996
Michael left his business running an art gallery and antique store
to dedicate his time full-time to FLAP.
DONNA
ROBERTSON
Associate Professor and Dean, College of Architecture
Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago
Partner and Cofounder, Robertson McAnulty Architects
B.A., Stanford University; M. Arch.,
University of Virginia
Donna Robertson lectures and writes on issues
confronting education and practice today, with special interest in
new developments in building and urbanism. Prior to joining IIT in
1996, she directed the architecture program at Barnard College,
and was the dean of the Tulane University School of Architecture.
Dean Robertson served as the managing advisor to
the 2004 competition held by the Chicago Department of the
Environment and State of Illinois to design the Ford Calumet
Environmental Center.
DOUGLAS
STOTZ
Conservation Ecologist, Environmental and Conservation Programs
Field Museum of Natural History – Chicago
B.A., University of Arizona; Ph.D.,
University of Chicago
Doug Stotz has been at the field museum since
1994. His research interests focus on diversity patterns,
biogeography, ecology, and conservation of birds. He has taken
part in several Rapid Biological Inventories in Peru, Bolivia and
Cuba and is part of the Illinois Rapid Assessment Program. He is
co-author of Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation
(University of Chicago Press, 1996). In Illinois his research
focus has been studying migration and breeding birds along the
Chicago lakefront, in the Lake Calumet area, Palos and Midewin.
In 2002 Dr. Stotz and his Field Museum colleague
Dr. David Willard made international news with the release of
their research into bird collisions at the McCormick Place
convention center: it was demonstrated that turning out building
lights reduced bird kills by 83 percent.
STEVE
SULLIVAN
Manager, Scientific Collections
Chicago Academy of Sciences
B.S., Brigham Young University
Prior to joining the Peggy Notebaert Nature
Museum, Steve Sullivan worked in conservation and wildlife biology
with the US Fish and Wildlife Service and several other museums.
He is a member of the Chicago Herpetological Society. Mr.
Sullivan is involved in the current project to make the museum's
building more bird-friendly.
