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California's Crisis as a Design Problem
Karen Fiss, Ph.D., Karen Fiss, PhD, is an associate professor of Design and Visual & Critical Studies at California College of the Arts. Her most recent book is Grand Illusion: The Third Reich, the Paris Exposition, and the Cultural Seduction of France, published by the University of Chicago Press (2009). She may be reached at kfiss@cca.edu.
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Does Legislation Really Matter?
Mark Christian, Hon. AIACC, is the Director of Legislative Affairs for the AIA California Council, a position he has held since 1999. Mark is responsible for monitoring the CA State Legislature, identifying bills of interest to the profession. He may be reached at mchristian@aiacc.org.

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Places to Play: Environmental Justice and the Distribution of Urban Parks and Recreation in Los Angeles
Jennier Wolch, Ph.D., is Dean of the College of Environmental Design and William W. Wurster Professor of city & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. She was previously Professor of Geography and Urban Planning and Founding Director of the Center for Sustainable Cities at the University of Southern California. She may be reach at wolch@berkeley.edu.

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Housing and Social Sustainability: a Conversation with Same Davis, FAIA
Grace Kang, SE, LEED AP, is a structural engineering principal at forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc., a San Francisco-based structural engineeringn firm focused on improving the safety and sustainability of the built environment. She is a professional affiliate of the AIA. She may be reached at g.kang@forell.com.

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Architects in Transportation
Noam Maitless, AIA, LEED AP, is a principal of Maitless+Associates, an architecture and planning studio in Los Angeles. He also writes about architecture and design for Esquire Magazine. He may be reached at noam@maitless.com.

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The High Speed Rail Debate: Architects as Scale Bridgers
Tim Culvahouse, FAIA, is editor of arcCA and principal of Culvahouse Consulting in Berkeley. He may be reached at tim@culvahouse.net.

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Water: Reordering the Paradigm
Kenneth Caldwell is a Bay Area writer and commincations consultant and a frequent contributor to arcCA. On his blog, designfaith.blogspot.com, he explores the modernist faith that architecture can be of service and improve human lives. He may reached at kenneth@kennethcaldwell.com.

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Water is Energy
Pauline Souza, AIA, LEED AP, is associate partner and director of green services at WRNS Studio in San Francisco. She is a contributing member of the National AIA Committee on the Environment Communications Committee, as well as a board member and green schools advocate for the U.S. Green Building Council's Northern California Chapter. She may reached at psouza@wrnsstudio.com.

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Water: Reordering the Paradigm
Practicing architecture since 1984 and sustainable design since 2003. Loren K. Aiton, LEED AP, is Manager of Sustainable Design with Taylor Teter Partnership in Fresno. He is a founding member and current President of the USGBC Central California Chapter. He may reached at loren.aiton@taylorteter.com.

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. . .and Counting
David Meckel, FAIA, is Director of Research & Planning for the California College of the Arts (CCA), in San Francisco. He may be reached at dmeckel@cca.edu

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