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Pete Peterson is Executive Director of Common Sense California (http://www.commonsenseca.org), an organization that promotes and supports citizen engagement throughout the state. Pete recently managed the organization’s 2008 Citizen Engagement Grant Program, which offered $150,000 in grants to over a dozen municipalities, school districts, and civic organizations across the state to support their efforts to involve citizens in important policy decisions. He consults on several of these campaigns. Pete also co-facilitates a training seminar for city/regional leaders entitled, "Leadership through Civic Engagement". Pete is also a Lecturer at Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy, teaching a state and local governance course on citizen engagement. He has written many opinion pieces on civic participation and partisanship, which have appeared in local newspapers and national online journals. Pete earned his Masters in Public Policy (with highest honors) from Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy. He was also a Public Affairs Fellow at The Hoover Institution in 2006.

Mayor of the City of Denham Springs, Louisiana 70726

Design New Haven is an open civic forum, blog and resource on Downtown New Haven, Connecticut. Our mission is to promote dialogue on topics including economic development, architecture and design, transportation, livable streets, history, downtown events, and the Route 34 Corridor.

I am the editor of Connecticut Environmental Headlines, a blog and daily e-mail service of all of today's environmental news headlines in Connecticut.

Andrés Duany is a principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ). DPZ is recognized as a leader of the New Urbanism, a movement that seeks to end suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. In the years since the firm designed Seaside, Florida, in 1980, DPZ has completed plans for close to 300 new towns, regional plans, codes, and community revitalization projects.

Duany is the author of The New Civic Art and Suburban Nation. He is a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Established in 1993 with the mission of reforming urban growth patterns, the Congress has been characterized by The New York Times as "the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years."

Hal Plotkin is a veteran Silicon Valley journalist and commentator, a founding editor of Marketplace on public radio, and the founder of the Center for Media Change, Inc., a Palo Alto-based 501(c)3 non-profit that enables crowd-funding of high-quality journalism.