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August 4, 2025
Clinton, Emma

Emma Clinton is an Associate Planner with Envision Utah. Prior to her time with Envision Utah, Emma served as an Associate Project Environmental Planner for SWCA Environmental Consultants in Salt Lake City. While at SWCA, Emma assisted with numerous land use planning efforts, including several large-scale Resource Management Plans in southern Utah. Emma’s background in […]

August 1, 2025
Miller-Jones, Laurel

Laurel joined Envision Utah in 2022 and is intentionally in the early learning space (0-5 years old) where most brain development occurs. She enjoys sharing brain-building essentials with community partners throughout Utah, as well as promoting and empowering the beauty and importance of the caregiver/child relationship and nurturing interactions using early learning principles. Her knowledge […]

July 18, 2025
Rodes, Ben

I am a Landscape Architect based in Salt Lake City, Utah, with 11 years of experience. I am passionate about designing public open spaces and providing access to the outdoors for all. I love to play outside and spend all of my free time outdoors. I was injured in a rock climbing accident 6 years […]

July 18, 2025
Abdollahzadeh Kalantari, Hannaneh

Hannaneh A. Kalantari is a PhD candidate in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, specializing in advanced data-driven transportation modeling and urban planning. Her research focuses on sustainable Transportation, MPOs’ travel demand models, Travel Behavior, Active Transportation, Traffic Safety, and Public Transit First and Last Mile Connectivity including Micromobility […]

July 18, 2025
Thesing, Jessica

Jessica is a policy and economic development leader ensuring responsible program development that optimizes vibrancy, livability, and the economy in downtown Salt Lake City.

July 18, 2025
Thomas, Blake

Blake advises the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Office on impactful projects like the Green Loop, Main Street Promenade, Grand Boulevards, and the Sports, Entertainment, Culture, and Convention District—generational initiatives that reflect our city’s vision for a vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable community. He previously lead the Salt Lake City Community and Neighborhoods Department and worked as […]

July 18, 2025
Holt, Dustin

Dustin Holt is a Co-Founder and Partner of Alpha Development Group, where he focuses on the acquisition, due diligence, and design of development projects. Over the past 15 years, Mr. Holt’s resume includes the acquisition, entitlement, and/or development of more than 6,000+ MF units and 2M+ SF of office, retail, and hospitality. Before founding Alpha, […]

July 18, 2025
Traughber, Lex

Lex Traughber is a Senior Planner with Salt Lake City Corporation. He has over twenty-seven years of experience as a public sector planner in city and county government, with a broad range of skills in current and long-range planning, including historic preservation. He is a graduate of Indiana University with a Master of Urban Planning […]

July 18, 2025
July 18, 2025
Lytle, Sarah

Sarah Lytle, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of Playful Learning Landscapes and a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution with the Center for Universal Education. Sarah has more than a decade of experience in connecting science to practice, working extensively with parents, early learning providers, communities, and policymakers to promote evidence-based interactions with children. Sarah […]

July 18, 2025
Wendell, Corrin

Corrin Wendell, AICP is the Founder and Executive Director of YEP! Youth Engagement Planning, President & Owner of Future Focus Strategies, LLC, Past Chair of APA’s Women & Planning Division, a National and International Keynote Speaker, and a Children’s Book Author of “Ava Tanner, the City Planner.” She is a two-time graduate of The Ohio […]

July 18, 2025
Wenger, Landis

Landis is the regional trail and active transportation coordinator for Cache County. In this role he supports partner cities and other organizations within the valley plan, design, and construct trails and other active transportation facilities. Landis came to this position with a wide background of outdoor recreation employment and environmental planning and design education. He […]

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