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Ms. Kessler is Chief Strategic Officer and Senior Master Planner with The Urban Collaborative (UC). She served in the U.S. Air Force as a Civil Engineer officer on active duty for eight years, and retired from the Air Force Reserves after 12 more years. She has over 30 years of military planning experience. As an assistant professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology teaching architecture, planning, and combat engineering, Tricia began participating in Air Force planning assistance teams, creating Area Development Plans (ADPs) worldwide. She has been a part of the UC since its inception in 2006.

Throughout her planning career, she has been a planner, facilitator, or project manager on over 80 planning charrettes worldwide. She managed a five-year effort at Fort Hood that resulted in a new Vision Plan, 11 Area Development Plans, Area Development and Execution Plans, and Sustainability Component Plans, reuse plans for the Carl Darnall Army Medical Center and Post Exchange, and a new Memorial Park Master Plan. Projects for all four military branches and municipal efforts have led to expertise in sustainable planning, form-based coding, force protection, and airfield operational planning issue. She earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame and completed Squadron Officer School at Maxwell Air Force Base. Her projects have won over 25 planning and design awards.

Dr. Mark L. Gillem is the Principal of The Urban Collaborative LLC, an interdisciplinary planning and urban design firm that has prepared master plans for military bases in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He is also a Full Professor in the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Departments at the University of Oregon, where he is also the Director of the Urban Design Lab.

Dr. Gillem has extensive experience in sustainable military planning. He has completed plans at a range of scales for all branches of the U.S. military; from real property master plans to small area development plans at over 100 military installations worldwide. His designs, form-based codes, and collaborative processes are setting a new standard for military planning. His planning work has received numerous awards from the Federal Planning Division of the American Planning Association, including the following eleven awards in 2019-2020: Outstanding Federal Planning Program Honor Award: IMCOM Lodge Program Definition Reports and DD1391s for Camp Zama Lodge, Camp Humphreys Lodge (with EJES, Transystems), Camp Walker Lodge and Hohenfels Lodge (with Atkins-UC JV) (2020); Outstanding Federal Planning Project Merit Award: NASA Johnson Space Center Real Property Master Plan Update (with RS&H) (2020); Outstanding Area/Site Development Plan Merit Award: Joint Base Langley-Eustis Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Campus (2020); Outstanding Technical Plan or Study Merit Award: Joint Base Langley-Eustis Customer Concept Documents for the Live Mission Operations Capability and 43D Formal Training Unit (FTU) Beddown (2020); Outstanding Federal Planning Project Merit Award: Naval Support Activity Monterey, Installation Development Plan (with Onyx-UC JV) (2019); Outstanding Area/Site Development Plan Merit Award: Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Project Definition Report (with GSRC) (2019); Outstanding Environmental Planning Award Merit Award: Rogue River Regional Master Plan and Integrated Environmental Assessment (2019); Outstanding Collaborative Planning Project Honor Award: Mid-Columbia River Regional Master Plan and Integrated Environmental Assessment (2019); Outstanding Collaborative Planning Project Citation Award: Selfridge Air National Guard Base – Eisenhower Center’s Veteran Care Transition Center Section 106 Report (2019).

Dr. Gillem is a primary instructor for introductory and advanced master planning courses for the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Air Force. The courses he co-teaches for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers were recognized by the Federal Planning Division of the American Planning Association as the Outstanding Federal Planning Program of 2010. Dr. Gillem also assists federal agencies with the development of planning policies, including the Army’s Master Planning Regulation (AR210-20) and the DoD’s Unified Facilities Criteria for Installation Master Planning.