Participants & Jury | New Amsterdam Bike Slam

Participants

	Michael Flynn Michael Flynn is a senior project manager in the NYC Department of Transportation division of Planning and Sustainability. Recently, he served as project manager for the development of the New York City Street Design Manual, the city's first comprehensive guide to designing safe, efficient, environmentally superior, cost-effective street infrastructure. In his previous role at DOT, Mr. Flynn planned, designed and implemented a wide range of street design projects including pedestrian plazas, bicycle facilities, traffic calming, and safety improvements; helped develop the agency's first comprehensive pedestrian safety initiative; and initiated the city's first systematic pedestrian count program. He will be a guest lecturer at the Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment this fall.
	Ed Janoff Ed Janoff has served as senior project manager in the Division of Planning and Sustainability since 2008. He was a co-author of the Street Design Manual, focusing on the materials and street furniture chapters, and currently is helping to oversee operations of public spaces for the NYC Plaza Program. Possessing a B.A. in Urban Design and Architecture Studies from NYU, Mr. Janoff has a varied background in architecture, urban design, graphic design, and construction. As Streetscape Maintenance Manager for Bryant Park and the 34th Street Partnership, he received 4+ years of training in public space design and management from expert and William H. Whyte disciple Dan Biederman.
	Michael Mandiberg Michael Mandiberg is a Brooklyn based artist, programmer, designer, educator, and bicyclist, known for selling all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg, making perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and creating Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com. His current projects include the co-authored groundbreaking Creative Commons licensed textbook Digital Foundations: an Intro to Media Design that teaches Bauhaus visual principles through design software, HowMuchItCosts.us, a car direction site that incorporates the financial and carbon cost of driving, and Bright Bike, a retro-reflective bicycle treehugger.com praised as “obnoxiously bright.” He is a Senior Fellow at Eyebeam, and an Assistant Professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY.
	Carmen Trudell Carmen Trudell, a licensed architect in both California and New York, is an adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia's GSAPP and an Assistant Professor at New York City College of Technology. She is also a partner in Both Landscape & Architecture, a two-person design firm, and a partner in fluxxlab, an experimental laboratory for innovative energy production. She holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), and a Bachelor of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University.

Jury

	David Lewis David J. Lewis is a founding partner of LTL Architects, a firm which received the 2007 National Design Award for Interior Architecture from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and was selected as one of six American architectural firms featured in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale. Lewis is currently associate professor at Parsons The New School for Design, where he directed the Master of Architecture Program from 2002-2007. In addition to his work at LTL, David has taught at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Ohio State University (Richard Trott Visiting Professor).
	Sergio Palleroni Sergio Palleroni, Co-founder and Director of the BaSiC Initiative, is a Professor and Fellow of the new Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices at Portland State University. He has been a Professor at the University of Texas, Austin and University of Washington, where in 1995 he co-founded the BaSiC Initiative with Professor David Riley to support the service learning work they had been doing with students since the late 1980s in Mexico and Central America. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and design work for underserved communities, including the National Education Awards from the ACSA/AIA (1997), NCARB (2003 and 2006), and the National Design Award from the Smithsonian Institution and the White House in 2005.
	Enrique Peñalosa An accomplished public official, economist and administrator, Enrique Peñalosa completed his three-year term as Mayor of Bogotá, Colombia on December 31, 2000. While mayor, Peñalosa was responsible for numerous radical improvements to the city and its citizens, including the promotion of a city model giving priority to children and public spaces, restricting private car use, and building hundreds of kilometers of sidewalks, bicycle paths, pedestrian streets, greenways, and parks. After organizing a Car-Free Day in 2000, he was awarded the Stockholm Challenge Award and rewarded by a referendum vote endorsing an annual car-free day and the elimination of all cars from streets during rush hours from 2015 onwards.
	Alexandros Washburn Alexandros Washburn is Director of Urban Design for the NYC government's Department of City Planning. He leads a team of urban designers in working on large-scale planning and development initiatives, as well as advising on key urban design and public open space issues citywide. Using his expertise in architecture, landscape architecture and planning, he has participated in the design of the new West Harlem waterfront park and overseen the planning, financing and approvals of Pennsylvania (now Moynihan) Station redevelopment in New York.