Time and Place

12:00 to 1:00 pm via Zoom

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The Innovative Cities Lecture Series

“The Implementers: Why Acting with Urgency Can Protect the Future [of our Region] and the Planning Profession” presentation by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, including Executive Director Stephanie Hacker, and Ben McKay, Deputy Director of the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission.

Lecture Summary:

The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission is the official areawide planning agency for the seven counties of Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Walworth, Washington, and Waukesha, and is also the designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for urbanized areas in the Region. Commission staff provide objective information and initiatives to focus attention on key issues of regional consequence. Staff represent a range of technical expertise including land use planning, environmental engineering and science, GIS, public involvement, surveying, and transportation planning and engineering.

BIO:

Stephanie Hacker, AICP, is the Executive Director of the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (Commission), where she works to address problems that transcend the corporate boundaries of Southeastern Wisconsin’s local units of government. Prior to her work at the Commission, she was a Principal Planner for GRAEF. There, she led the Planning and Urban Design Group and later served as a Strategic Planning Leader. Stephanie is passionate about making visually stunning, active, inclusive, and welcoming places; preserving heritage while writing new stories; pursuing triple bottom line sustainability in our communities; and generating value, reinstating native biodiversity, and living healthier lives. Stephanie earned a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from Augustana College.

Benjamin McKay is the Deputy Director of the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (Commission). He has led and facilitated long-range regional, county, and community level planning efforts undertaken by the Commission during the last 19 years, including the Regional Housing Plan and VISION 2050, Southeastern Wisconsin’s long range land use and transportation plan. Ben received a Master of Urban Planning degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2003.

AICP-CM credits will be awarded.

Questions, comments?

All lectures are free and open to planners, students, staff, faculty, and friends of the University. Please contact Blythe Waldbillig, Department of Urban Planning Project Assistant at waldbil5@uwm.edu