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The Jane Jacobs Medal Jury -- 2007
George Campbell, Jr. (Jury Co-Chair)
George Campbell Jr. is a physicist and President of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. Campbell has held management positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories and faculty appointments at Syracuse University and Nkumbi International College in Zambia. He has served as President and CEO of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. and as a member of Governor Spitzer’s Transition Advisory Group on Higher Education.
Agnes Gund (Jury Co-Chair)
Agnes Gund served as President of the Museum of Modern Art from 1991 through 2002. A prominent philanthropist and arts leader, Ms. Gund was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton in 1997. She is Chair of the Mayor’s Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission and the founder of the Studio in a School Association which brings professional artists into New York City’s public schools as art teachers.
Bill Aguado
Bill Aguado is the Executive Director of the Bronx Council on the Arts. He served on Governor Spitzer’s Policy Transition Team for Arts, Culture and Revitalization. The Bronx Council on the Arts is a 2006 recipient of the Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture and is the leading arts service organization working to promote the arts in the Bronx.
Barry Bergdoll
Barry Bergdoll is the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art and professor of architectural history in the department of Art History and Archeology at Columbia University. His interests center on modern architectural history, cultural history, city planning and the intersections of architecture and new technologies.
W. Paul Farmer
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Paul Farmer is Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Certified Planners. He is the former Director of the Minneapolis Department of City Planning and received the Design Excellence Award from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1980.
Rosalie Genevro
Rosalie Genevro is executive director of the Architectural League of New York. Founded in 1881, the Architectural League is dedicated to the presentation of ideas in contemporary architecture, urbanism, and design. During her tenure Ms. Genevro has added international initiatives to the League’s programming and intensified the League’s focus on design and city-building issues in New York City.
Paul Goldberger
Paul Goldberger is the former architecture critic for the New York Times and is currently the Architecture Critic for The New Yorker and holds The Joseph Urban Chair in design and Architecture at The New School. He has also been the Dean of the Parsons School of Design. An award winning writer, he is the author of numerous books, including The City Observed: New York and Above New York, and the recent UP FROM ZERO: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York.
Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer
Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer is the Executive Director of the Queens Council on the Arts, an organization that was the recipient of the Municipal Art Society's Certificate of Merit and the Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture. Her children's book, Rabbit Mooncakes, was published by Little, Brown & Company. She currently serves on the board of Tony Bennett's Exploring the Arts Foundation.
John T. Reddick
John Reddick is the Associate Vice President of Education & Programming at the Central Park Conservancy. A graduate of the Yale University, he has worked in preservation, parks, public art and community design projects in Harlem, Prospect Park Brooklyn and with the Abyssinian Development Corporation.
David Rockefeller, Jr.
David Rockefeller, Jr. is a philanthropist and an active participant in nonprofit and environmental issues. He is the former President of the Rockefeller Family Fund and is a trustee of the The Museum of Modern Art, The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and The Rockefeller Foundation.
Ronald Shiffman
Ron Shiffman is a Professor of Urban Planning at the Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning and Environment. He is the co-founder and director emeritus of the Pratt Center for Community Development. An expert on community-based planning and sustainable development, Shiffman is a former New York City Planning Commissioner.
Marilyn J. Taylor
Marilyn Taylor is the Partner-in-Charge of Urban Design and Planning at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM). An architect and urban designer, she is also the chair of the Urban Land Institute. The winner of numerous awards, including Crain’s list of Most Influential Women in New York, she is the first woman to be elected Chairman of SOM. Ms. Taylor currently serves on the boards of Association for a Better New York, the Downtown Alliance, The Penn Institute for Urban Research, The Regional Plan Association and the Forum for Urban Design