Join the PPTF and Connect the Dots, a civic engagement firm from Philadelphia and Dublin, Ireland, in an interactive workshop to share best practices around stakeholder engagement and explore approaches to common challenges in placemaking. Connect the Dots specializes in creative and analytics-based consultation that can help to achieve community-supported projects, mitigate risk, and speed up development timelines.
Come ready to learn, engage, and discuss your ideas about engagement in planning projects and studies.
Join us at the next PPTF meeting on October 29th to participate in this exciting workshop. An agenda can be viewed on the PPTF webpage: https://www.dvrpc.org/Committees/PPTF/.
Speaker Bios:
Marisa Denker, Co-Founder Connect the Dots
Marisa has deep expertise in consultation design, strategic communications, stakeholder management and project management. Previously, she worked at MCO Projects, one of Ireland’s leading project management and strategic design firms where she managed large-scale public and behavioral change projects, designed public consultations and events, and developed communications strategies for clients such as Comcast, Temple University, and Independence Blue Cross.
Kiersten Mailler, Senior Planner at Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Kiersten is trained in architectural and urban design, and has gravitated to public engagement over the last decade. She works as a community and regional planner in the greater Philadelphia area, and has done extensive work in user experience, urban spatial planning, and demographic studies. She has built meaningful relationships with local CDCs and Philadelphia Planning Agencies.
Jasmin Velez, Community Development Project Manager at Impact Services Corporation
Jasmin Velez is an applied anthropologist with a demonstrated history of working in the non-profit sector and with diverse populations.As an almost life-long resident of the Kensington neighborhood and North Philadelphia, she is dedicated to equipping residents with the resources and tools necessary to uplift the community. Much of Jasmin’s work and passion centers on community building and engagement through vacant land stabilization, block beautification projects, and community gardening.
RSVP
By Monday, October 28th via Ticketleap. Seating is limited.
PPTF Application Open Year-Round
Interested in becoming a member of the PPTF? You can apply online at: http://www.dvrpc.org/GetInvolved/PPTFApplication/. Applications are reviewed at the end of each calendar year.
If you have any questions, please contact Shoshana Akins, Public Participation Planner, at 215-238-2817 or [email protected].
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