Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, DPACSA, NOMA; Lance Jay Brown Architecture + Urban Design, NYC; Co-Founder and Past President, Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization (CSU) and elected 2024-2026 Co-Chair of the Habitat Professional Forum (HPF); Co-Founder of the AIA Design for Risk and Reconstruction Committee; Architect, Urban Designer, Educator, Author, Curator, ACSA Distinguished Professor for Life, Professor Emeritus, and former Chair/Director, the Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY; Recipient of the prestigious AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education; Director, Design Excellence Program, National Endowment for the Arts; Professional Advisor to the WTC Site 9/11 International Memorial Design Competition; DfRR award-winning AIANY Post Sandy Initiative; 2014 President of the AIA New York Chapter; UN HABITAT III Policy Unit 8 Member and Quito Habitat III Presenter; Advisor/Fellow, Forum for Urban Design, Consults, teaches, lectures nationally and internationally. Writings, contributions, edited/co-authored publications include: City for City (2016); Waterproofing New York (2016), The Legacy Project: New Housing New York Best Practices in Affordable, Sustainable, Replicable Housing Design (2015), Urban Design for an Urban Century: Placemaking for People (2010), Urban Design for an Urban Century: Shaping More Livable, Equitable, and Resilient Cities (2014), the award-winning Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space (2012), Learning from Lower Manhattan (2004), the Planning and Design Workbook for Community Participation (Princeton).