Rachel Flynn is the Deputy City Manager of Greeley, Colorado overseeing several departments:  Planning, Building, Public Works, Transportation, Economic Development, Code Compliance, and Water & Sewer.    

Prior to moving to Colorado, Rachel worked for Fairfax County, Virginia (Deputy County Executive), Google (Director of Planning), Lennar/FivePoint Communities (Vice President), Oakland, California (Director of Planning & Building), Otak International (Director of Planning in the Abu Dhabi, UAE office), Richmond, Virginia (Director of Community Development), and Lynchburg, Virginia (Director of Community Development).  She practiced architecture for over twelve years with Cannon Design in New York, Boston, Toronto, and Washington, D.C.

She has been honored with numerous awards from civic and professional organizations for successful master plans, downtown revitalization, historic preservation, zoning reform, housing policies, environmental initiatives, and innovative technology programs. 

Rachel is a licensed architect and holds degrees from Harvard University and Catholic University.

Julia Laue is Principal Architect & Bureau Manager for the Bureau of Architecture (BOA) for San Francisco’s Department of Public Works where her focus is excellence in Project Delivery and Design for the City's great Civic Projects. Her 28-year overall career prior to BOA ranged from multi-family housing, urban mix-use projects, healthcare, to hospitality. In 2013 she left the private sector to join BOA, where she oversees an architectural staff of 68+ to deliver hundreds of building & renovation projects for a diverse range of communities and neighborhoods. BOA’s projects range from Branch Libraries, Fire Stations, Auditoriums, Community & Rec Centers, Homeless Shelters & Alternative Housing, Hospital & Healthcare Clinics. Julia’s goal has always been to inspire cultural and strategic change, raising the bar in design and technical execution on all the projects and organizations she works with. Project delivery through great design and excellence in execution is Julia’s passion.

Rona G. Rothenberg, FAIA, has led major capital programs in government and industry for the past 29 years. Her contributions in industry include key project and program roles for building programs of Stanford University, Kaiser, and Allianz AG North America. For the past 15 years she has been a founding team member of the historic State of California $7B courthouse building program and as the capital program manager for Alameda County, one of the largest counties in California. She has worked on and delivered over 100 institutional buildings in her long career. Rona is an expert on institutional project and program delivery and has lectured and written widely on this subject.

A long-term resident of the Bay Area, Rona is also a singer, artist, craftwoman, baker, gardener and dog-lover. She has been married to a Vietnam-Era U.S. Navy Veteran for 37 years and is a proud mother and mother-in-law of 3 adult children. She has enjoyed being an architect within institutions, improving workplaces and communities, "from the inside out."

Paul Woolford, AIA, IIDA, LEED AP is the Design Principal for HOK San Francisco; responsible for some of HOK’s most complex and creative buildings. He leads an interdisciplinary team comprised of architects, engineers, interior, landscape & product designers, and urban planners.

His designs have been honored with numerous awards including: Research & Development Magazine’s “Laboratory of the Year Award” in 1997; “Regional, State and National AIA Design Excellence Awards” in 2006 for the State Archives and Library of Georgia; the “AIA California Council Design Excellence Award” in 2008 for the Wind Portal at the SF BART Station; and various accolades from the USGBC for LEED Platinum and Gold certified projects.

Paul earned his Bachelor of Architecture at Cornell University with honors in 1983. He has been active in the American Institute of Architects at the state level as an officer, and at the national level, was named an “Outstanding Young Architect of the Year.” He has both chaired and been a juror for numerous AIA design awards. Additionally, Paul has taught design at the University of California, Berkeley; Cornell University; and Savannah College of Art & Design. He lectures around the world on environmental and design issues for organizations including AIA, USGBC, SCUP, MAAM, ULI and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.