Design: FY 2009 Grants Panelists

Access to Artistic Excellence, Panel A June 5-6, 2008 Jamais Cascio (Layperson)  Scenario Strategist Open the Future Concord, CA Roger Cummings  Artistic Director and Co-Founder Juxtaposition Arts Minneapolis, MN Barbara Faga  Executive Vice President and Principal EDAW Miami Beach, FL Geraldine Forbes Isais Professor & Director, Architecture Program University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM William Gilchrist  Director, Department of Planning, Engineering, and Permits Birmingham City Hall Birmingham, AL Trisha Miller  Deputy Director, Green Communities Enterprise Community Partners Washington, DC Burt Pinnock  Architect BAM Richmond, VA Access to Artistic Excellence, Panel B June 6, 2008 Sam Black (Layperson)  Senior Counsel Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, L.L.P. Washington, DC Roger Cummings  Artistic Director and Founder Juxtaposition Arts Minneapolis, MN Barbara Faga  Executive Vice President and Principal EDAW Miami Beach, FL Geraldine Forbes Isais Professor & Director  Architecture Program University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM Trisha Miller  Deputy Director, Green Communities Enterprise Community Partners Columbia, MD Burt Pinnock  Architect BAM Richmond, VA

Access to Artistic Excellence, Panel A  December 8-9, 2008

Adrienne B. Biesemeyer (Layperson) Licensed Professional Counselor  Executive Director Anir Foundation  Alderson, WV

Dianne Harris Director, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Professor of Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Art History,     and History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL

William M. Harris, Sr.  Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor Emeritus  Massachusetts Institute of Technology Evans, GA

Stephen Luoni Director and Steven L. Anderson Chair of Architecture and Urban     Studies University of Arkansas Community Design Center  Fayetteville, AR

Cara McCarty Curatorial Director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design  Museum Smithsonian Institution New York, NY

Josephine Ramirez Vice President, Programming and Planning The Music Center, Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County Los Angeles, CA

Jorge Rigau FAIA, Owner, Jorge Rigau Arquitectos Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico San Juan, PR

Access to Artistic Excellence, Panel B  December 9, 2008

Adrienne B. Biesemeyer (Layperson) Licensed Professional Counselor  Executive Director Anir Foundation  Alderson, WV

Dianne Harris Director, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Professor of Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Art History,     and History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL

William M. Harris, Sr.  Martin Luther King, Jr. Visiting Professor Emeritus  Massachusetts Institute of Technology Evans, GA

Josephine Ramirez Vice President, Programming and Planning The Music Center, Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County Los Angeles, CA

Jorge Rigau FAIA, Owner, Jorge Rigau Arquitectos Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico San Juan, PR

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act May 20, 2009

Sam Black (Layperson) Senior Counsel Squire, Sanders & Dempsey Law Firm Washington, DC Geraldine Forbes Isais Professor, Director of Architecture Program University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM Dianne Harris Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Architecture University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL William R. Harris, Sr. Principal Harris Planning & Associates Evans, GA William Williams Associate Professor of Architecture University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Application Readers  (Reader who did not also serve as panelist) M. Josephine Ramirez  Vice President, Programming & Planning  Music Center at Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County  Los Angeles, CA