Jason Flax
Summer 2009

Jason Flax is an undergraduate student from the Tyler School of Art and is completing his Bachelor of Architecture in pursuit of professional architectural practice. Jason’s interests in architectural design involve topics regarding graphic and web design, food security in urban conditions, sustainable urban agriculture, and architectural interventions in dense urban environments. Before joining the Center for Sustainable Communities, Jason has worked as an assistant project designer for architecture and lighting design firms in the Philadelphia area over the last few years.

Sujin Park
Spring 2008 - Spring 2009

Sujin Park joined the CSC research team in spring 2008. Her responsibilities included building a GIS database based on the assessment of the spatial relationship between hunger insecurity and the distribution of hunger relief services in the Delaware Valley region. She has a B.A. in Forestry from Chonbuk National University, South Korea and a M.S. in Community and Regional Planning from Temple University. Her interests include environmental planning, urban forest management planning, international community revitalization planning, and smart growth.

Nina Morris
Spring 2009

Nina Morris received two Bachelor of Arts degrees in Spanish and Religious Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University. Nina worked with Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation on developing and initiating a comprehensive green plan for the redevelopment of Philadelphia Navy Yard. The plan included developing a recycling program and a closed-system bikeshare. She worked on various research projects at the Center.

Anna Boisnic’s work at CSC included the profiling of regional stormwater best management practices for the Temple-Villanova Sustainable Stormwater Initiative website. During her two years as a research assistant, she has also aided the department with developing data for studies related to municipal codes and housing, and has been teacher assistant for Professor William Cohen’s course “People, Places, and the Environment.” Anna developed a sustainable community plan for a village in southwestern Ecuador for her final Master’s project. Anna has her B.A. in French from the University of Mary Washington in Virginia.   

Mari Radford
Fall 2007 - Fall 2008

Mari completed her masters degree from the Department of Community and Regional Planning at Temple University in December 08. She was a research assistant studying innovative land use regulations that help create livable communities supportive of active lifestyles. She has a BS in History from Willamette University (Salem, OR) and served overseas with the US Department of State as a Community Liaison Officer, Assistant General Services Officer and Coordinator for the US Liaison Office in Mogadishu, Somalia. Mari is interested in community development and emergency planning.  She is currently working as an Emergency Management Coordinator at URS Corp.

Alice Walters
Fall 2007 - Fall 2008

Alice Walters completed her masters degree from the Department of Community and Regional Planning at Temple University in December 08. She was a research assistant studying community hunger relief food access network and stormwater best management practices. She graduated from Penn State University in 1999 with a degree in Environmental Resource Management. After spending time in China in summer 08, she gained new interest in helping developing countries to make policy and planning decisions that encourage environmental sensitivity and sustainability. She is currently working as an environmental planner at Bucks County Planning Commission.

Ms Andreea Ambrus graduated from the Department of Community and Regional Planning at Temple University in August 08. She worked as volunteer intern for the CSC from fall 2005 to spring 2006, and then she joined the research team as a research assistant. Her responsibilities included creating GIS maps and data, data processing, and data analysis. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Geography from Babes-Bolyai University, Romania. Her interests are 3D Modeling, ArcGIS, (with its extensions Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst), transportation planning and environmental planning. She is currently working as a Community Health GIS Specialist at Lehigh Valley Hospital.   

Straso Jovanovski
Fall 2006 - Summer 2008

Mr. Jovanovski graduated from the Department of Community and Regional Planning at Temple University in August 08. He came from Republic of Macedonia, and was a transfer student from Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, TN. There he completed B.B.A. degree with CIS concentration and was enrolled for one year in the MBA program. His fields of interests are environmental planning and community development.  

Ms Lan Jiang has graduated from the Department of Community and Regional Planning at Temple University in 2007. As a research assistant of the Center, Ms. Jiang has been involved in Philadelphia Community Food Access Study and Upper Dublin Environmental Resources Inventory Study. Before that she worked as a GIS intern at The Reinvestment Fund in summer 2006. She has a B.S. in Landscape Architecture from Nanjing Forestry University, China. She is now working full-time as a GIS Analyst at Toole Design Group, located in DC Metro Area.  

Dennis Dalbey
Summer 2005 - Summer 2006

Mr. Dalbey is a graduate student in the Community and Regional Planning department at Temple University Ambler. He joined the CSC research team in Summer 2005 as a GIS Intern. Mr. Dalbey has a M.A. in Political Science from East Stroudsburg University, a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Kutztown University and a GIS certification from Penn State. His interests include Cartography, ArcGIS, and ArcView extensions, including spatial analysis and 3D analysis.

At present Mr. Dalbey works as a Geodemographer at Marketing Systems Group. He pulls demographic data sets for clients through a variety of demographic data service providers (ie. the census) using the software MapInfo and ArcGIS.

Wesley Ratko
Summer 2005 - Fall 2005

Mr. Ratko is a graduate student in the Community and Regional Planning department at Temple University Ambler. He joined the CSC research team in 2005 as a research assistant, creating and digitizing GIS maps, data processing and analysis. He has completed a planning internship at Castle Valley Consultants (New Britain, PA) and is currently working on his master's thesis. His objective is to pursue a Ph.D. in transportation planning with a focus on interagency cooperative policy.

Frank Fata
Spring 2003 - Spring 2003

Frank Fata, a graduate from the Department of Landscape Architecture at Temple University Ambler, worked as a GIS intern for the CSC from February 2003 to Fall 2003. His responsibilities included converting AutoCAD files into GIS format and digitizing. His interests include AutoCAD, engineering, and golf course design.