Wayne Feiden is Director of the Center for Resilient Metro-Regions and Lecturer of Practice at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he focuses on assisting communities in placemaking, resilience, downtown revitalization, housing, economic development, transportation, open space preservation, regulatory streamlining, and community engagement. Previously he was Director of Planning and Sustainability for Northampton. He led that city to earn a LEED for Cities GOLD rating and the nation’s first Five-STAR Communities rating for sustainability.

Wayne's publications include five American Planning Association PAS reports: Strategic Planning, Planning Management, Assessing Sustainability, Planning for On-Site and Decentralized Wastewater Treatment, and Performance Guarantees, as well as other peer-reviewed and research papers. Wayne’s Eisenhower Fellowship to Hungary, Fulbright specialists to South Africa and to New Zealand, German Marshall Fund Fellowship to Europe (2015), State Department Fellowship Exchanges to Indonesia and Malaysia, and Bellagio Residency in Italy all focused on planning and resilience. 

Wayne has a BS in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan and a Master of City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina.