Jacinda is all about people, places and connections and specialize in managing projects that result in strong, effective public/private partnerships. Combining years of experience working at the local, state and federal governmental levels with experience helping to launch a successful tech start-up, she bridge gaps and facilitate working relationships resulting in positive productive outcomes for all.
Jonathan Ford is a New Urbanist civil engineer and urban designer, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in six states. Mr. Ford’s planning and design approach is based on the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism — compact, walkable neighborhood design creates vibrant, lovable places in balance with nature. Dedication to traditional neighborhood design and a devotion to interdisciplinary collaboration led Mr. Ford to found Morris Beacon Design in 2006, where he served as a New Urbanist civil engineering and planning resource until joining the Horsley Witten Group.
Mr. Ford is a Knight Fellow in Community Building at the University of Miami’s School of Architecture, co-founder and past President of CNU New England, and on the faculty of the Form Based Codes Institute. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Ecological Landscape Alliance and Blackstone Parks Conservancy.
Mr. Ford’s projects have won numerous local and national planning and design awards, including a CNU Charter Award Honorable Mention, the CNU New England Award of Excellence, the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Silver Medal, and Boston Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award.
Ken Livingston is an urban planner focusing on providing mobility options to create more livable communities. He is a Principal at FHI Studio a planning and design firm. He has worked on projects throughout the Northeast with a focus on bicycle and pedestrian planning. Ken’s recent projects include Connecticut’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan and the Norwalk (CT) Pedestrian and Bikeway Plan. Additionally, Ken brings a strong understanding of community connectivity planning including pedestrian wayfinding, analysis of parking demand, zoning regulations for parking and form-based code zoning.
Ken has also served as Treasurer to Bike Walk Connecticut and serves on the Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee for the Town of West Hartford, CT. He is an avid runner and bicyclist and recently completed his first 50-mile trail ultramarathon.
Matthew Lawlor is an attorney with Robinson & Cole in the firm's Boston office and a member of the Real Estate Practice Group, where he focuses his practice on representing lenders, municipal authorities and agencies, developers, nonprofits, municipalities, and commercial landlords and tenants in matters involving affordable housing, transit-oriented and mixed-use development, commercial real estate development and leasing, and land use and planning law. His experience includes obtaining permits and land use entitlements for developers of large-scale, mixed-use projects, as well as drafting new land use regulatory provisions, including form-based codes, for municipalities. Mr. Lawlor regularly advises a national real estate organization on land use initiatives and trends across the country and serves as a faculty member at continuing education seminars. He frequently presents at planning and real estate industry conferences on the related topics of land use regulation, New Urbanism, and smart growth.
Mr. Lawlor works extensively with the firm's representation of the Congress for the New Urbanism New England Chapter as the organization's pro-bono counsel. Before attending law school, he worked for Comsis Corporation in Silver Spring, Maryland, as a consulting transportation planner for local and state governments. Mr. Lawlor achieved CNU-Accredited status in 2009 from the Congress for the New Urbanism.
Born and raised in New Delhi, India, Zoya Puri is an architect, landscape architect, and real estate developer. Currently, she serves as the Vice President of Development for Beacon Capital Partners, leading ground-up developments, major repositions, and capital projects across Beacon’s Portfolio. Before joining Beacon, Zoya was a Senior Development Manager at Wynn Design & Development and managed new development opportunities for Wynn Resorts in both domestic and international markets.
Zoya is a strong advocate for the transformative power of public spaces, urban infill development, and the Oxford comma. She is also a Co-Chair of ULI New England’s Real Estate Technology Council. Zoya holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Sushant School of Art and Architecture, a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an M.S. in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Claire is a designer, researcher, and founder passionate about advocating for the role of design in fostering the best place New England can be. She holds a Masters Degree in Architecture and currently works in international science and technology diplomacy. As a founder, she advocated for the role of cooperative design, development, and ownership as a catalyst for building not only equity but meaningful belonging in urban spaces. As a researcher and design strategy consultant, she has worked across industries and across private, government, and non-profit sectors to help organizations use design to align more closely with their mission, stakeholders, and communities. In her free time, you can find her practicing flower arrangement, playing with synthesizers, or on a picnic!
Suneeth is a real estate development professional with over a decade of experience on domestic and international projects of varying scales and complexities. Suneeth brings professional experience complemented by leadership roles in community organizations focused on participatory planning, community design and affordable housing development.
Areas of expertise include:
• Affordable Housing
• Development Finance
• Development Management
• Development Permitting
• Off-site Building Fabrication