National Trust for Historic Preservation
Partners Executive Retreat 2013
May 19 – 25 | Detroit | Michigan
Rightsizing Participant Bios | Wednesday May 22
Daniel Kinkead | Executive Director, Detroit Future City
Dan Kinkead has recently been named the executive director for Detroit Future City (DFC), a
comprehensive strategic framework to guide decision-making and investment in Detroit. Dan will
lead a dynamic team of urban experts to fulfill continued civic engagement, execute regulatory
changes, and implement pilot projects throughout the city.
Most recently Dan was design principal with Hamilton Anderson Associates (HAA), leading the
design studio for architecture and urban design, and driving the land-use and neighborhoods
research and planning for DFC. Dan's work with HAA has included projects such as a new
language arts building for Michigan State University, master plans for the Children's Center and
Pewabic Pottery, and the redesign and renovation of the Flint Mass Transit Authority's
downtown commuter hub.
Prior to working with HAA, Dan was an urban designer with Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLP in
New York, where he worked on large scale innovation district designs for continental Europe
and China. Dan was also the primary design collaborator with Renzo Piano Building Workshop
to create the Columbia University master plan for West Harlem.
Dan is a registered architect and his work has been published in a range of national and
international media, including Architect, The Plan, and Architectural Record. Dan graduated
from Harvard University with a Master of Architecture in Urban Design, and from the University
of Kentucky with a Bachelor of Architecture. Dan lives in Detroit with his family.
Brian V. Hurttienne, AIA LEED AP | Executive Director, The Villages Community
Development Corporation (Moderating)
Brian holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Lawrence Technological University, and is a
registered historic architect with the State of Michigan. He has worked in Detroit for almost 30
years at various architectural firms, as an instructor at Wayne State University, and with his own
architecture firm, BVH Architecture, for nine years. His career has led him to projects such as
the Kales Building, Carlton Condominiums, Grinnell Place Lofts, and the North Corktown
Houses, among various restaurants and community projects. Brian has been involved in
community nonprofits throughout his educational and professional career, as well as the exhibit,
“Considering Architecture,” at MOCAD, the Sustainable Design Assessment Team, and the AIAUPC’s triple symposium effort, “Detroit by Design,” that dealt with urban centers, urban
agriculture, and transportation. As executive director of The Villages Community
Development Corporation, Brian has immersed himself in community planning, marrying his
various experiences. He has lived in Corktown for more than 16 years and is an architecture
bike tour leader through Wheelhouse Detroit.
Janese Chapman | City Planner/Historic Preservation, City of Detroit Historic Designation
Advisory Board
Janese Chapman is a city planner/historic preservationist with the Detroit’s City Council Historic
Designation Advisory Board. As a historic preservationist, she irresponsible for the designation
of local historic districts in accordance with local legislation, as well as for assisting local groups
with state and national register nominations.. Janese serves as the city’s coordinator of the
State of Michigan Certified Local Government (CLG) Grant Program. She has helped to secure
a number of grants for several local historic resources including a new roof for the Belle Isle
Aquarium, the rehabilitation of the Minoru Yamasaki Reflecting Pool (Wayne State University),
and new national register nomination for Belle Isle Park and Detroit’s historic Eastern Market.
Other projects include the “Old Schools New Uses: Re-Inventing Vacant School Buildings and
Sites in Detroit for Innovative Redevelopment,” adaptive use of Detroit public schools; and
Detroit mid-century modernism tours.
Janese has served as coordinator of several projects, including the establishment of educational
programs that have broadened the awareness of historic preservation in the Detroit public
schools. Janese helped organize and served as chairperson of the first annual statewide
symposium to focus on preservation in the African American community.
For ten years, Janese represented the state of Michigan as an advisor to the National Trust for
Historic Preservation. She has also served on the executive committees of the Michigan Historic
Preservation Network, Oral History Association, Black Historic Sites Committee, State of
Michigan Underground Railroad Committee, and the Society of Architectural Historian Planning
Committee for the 2012 Detroit Conference. Currently, she serves as a member of the State of
Michigan Review Board for Historic Preservation.
Wendy Lewis Jackson | Senior Program Officer, Community Development, Detroit,
Kresge Foundation | Detroit Future City Team
As senior program officer for the Community Development and Detroit programs, Wendy Lewis
Jackson advances the Kresge Foundation’s efforts to revitalize Detroit and strengthen the social
and economic fabric of other large U.S. cities. Through grant making, the foundation supports
organizations that work to provide economic opportunity for low-income people and to address
the needs of vulnerable children and families.
Prior to joining Kresge in 2008, Wendy was a program director for Children and Family
Initiatives and executive director for education initiatives at the Grand Rapids Community
Foundation in Grand Rapids, Mich. She taught at Grand Valley State University in Allendale,
Mich., and has co-authored and assisted in the publication of several reports and publications
that address community needs and problem solving.
Wendy is an American Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United
States; the Association of Black Foundation Executives named her an Emerging Leader in
2008. Wendy earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and communications from the
University of Michigan. She also holds a master’s degree in social work from U-M, with a
concentration in community organization and social policy and planning.
Juanita R. Jones, PMP, LEED AP | Assistant Director for Operations, Detroit Land Bank
Authority
Juanita R. Jones, PMP, LEED AP, is the assistant director of operations for the Detroit Land
Bank Authority (DLBA). Juanita came to the land bank after intensive work as a HUD subconsultant for the City of Detroit on the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP). Since
joining the DLBA in 2011, Juanita has developed, designed, and implemented a program and
project plan for the expenditure of more than $22 million in direct NSP funding to the DLBA.
Under this program, the DLBA acquired 157 properties, the majority of which are historic assets,
and took on the renovation of 30 properties. Sixteen of those rehabilitated were substantial gut
rehabilitations of historic assets in one of the country's largest and oldest single historic districts,
the Boston Edison Historic District. Under Juanita's leadership and tenacity the DLBA received
the coveted 2013 Governor's Award in Historic Preservation for its work under the NSP
program.
Dean Hay | Green Infrastructure Director, The Greening of Detroit
Dean Hay is the director of green infrastructure at the Greening of Detroit where he is actively
working to find new uses for the city’s vacant land and brownfield sites and to develop largescale natural eco-systems. Dean was originally introduced to the Greening’s work when he first
volunteered for the organization in 1996 at a tree planting. He would later serve two terms on
the board of commissioners before becoming the director of green infrastructure.
Dean is passionate about improving and protecting natural resources in communities throughout
southeast Michigan, as well as providing forest and resource management planning on public
and private land. Dean received a Masters of Landscape Architecture from University of
Michigan, is an International Society of Arboriculture certified arborist, a municipal specialist,
and consulting municipal arborist.
Dean currently serves on the Michigan Urban and Community Forestry Council working to
advance the conservation and maintenance of urban forests throughout Michigan. He also
serves on the board of Moross Greenway Project, a nonprofit organization established to
develop a natural landscape along Moross Road, an entry gateway along the eastern boundary
of Detroit.