Team & Advisory Board

We’re a collective of professional urbanists, architects, professors, and planners who believe in building beautiful, sustainable places where we all can come alive and thrive.

Will McCollum

PRESIDENT, EXEC BOARD

  • Will is a registered architect who has been working alongside celebrated urbanist Lew Oliver since 2015 to create meaningful and beautiful communities across the United States. He currently serves as Vice President for CNU Atlanta.

Julie Wedig

EXEC BOARD

  • Bio coming soon :)

Team & Exec Board

Liz Treadwell

FUNDRAISING, EXEC BOARD

  • Liz married her sales background and communications education with her love of design to coordinate projects, curate marketing content, and lead exterior finishes for the internationally acclaimed town planning and design firm Lew Oliver Inc. Liz's passion for the built environment and citizen empowerment grows daily.

Katherine O'Neil

OPERATIONS, EXEC BOARD

  • Katherine, the founder of Builtfully, is a designer with a master's degree in urban design and city planning who is passionate about creating beautifully built environments that connect people with places. She currently serves on the Beverly Main Streets Design Committee and chairs the Beverly Creative Connection, co-starting a community event series.

Matthew Marshall

EXEC BOARD

  • Matthew is co-founder and CBO at New Story, an affordable housing developer in LATAM and passionate about traditional neighborhood development in his backyard.

Kathleen Ustas

EXEC BOARD

  • Kathleen holds a finance degree from Northeastern University and has gained valuable experience as a real estate analyst on a fix & flip and development team in Massachusetts. She is an active member of the board for the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art New England Chapter and is the founder of the New Vitruvians. Kathleen is passionate about promoting beautiful and lasting design in the built environment.

Advisory Board

  • Ann Sussman, RA

    ADVISORY BOARD

    President, the Human Architecture & Planning Institute, Inc.; Author, Cognitive Architecture; Instructor, Boston Architectural College

  • Lew Oliver

    ADVISORY BOARD

    Founder of Lew Oliver Inc, Town Planner at Trilith, and Member of the Urban Guild

  • Ashleigh Walton

    ADVISORY BOARD

    Architect at Urban Design Associates, Board Member of CNU, and Member of the Urban Guild

  • Ruben Hanssen

    ADVISORY BOARD

    Founder of The Aesthetic City and on the board of the Let's Build a Beautiful City summer school

  • María Sánchez

    ADVISORY BOARD

    Founder & Director of Estudio Urbano; Advisory Council, University of Notre Dame

  • Austin Tunnell

    ADVISORY BOARD

    Founder of Building Culture and the Building Culture Podcast

  • Christine Franck

    ADVISORY BOARD

    Founder of Christine Huckins Frank Architect llc and Chairwoman of INTBAU USA

  • Michael Mehaffy

    ADVISORY BOARD

    Founder of Structura Naturalis and Executive Director of the International Making Cities Livable conference

  • Tiffany Owens Reed

    ADVISORY BOARD

    Founder of Cities Decoded and host of The Bottom-Up Revolution, a Strong Towns podcast

  • Paul Murrain

    ADVISORY BOARD

    Founder of Paul Murrain Urban Design and former Sr. Design Director of the Kings's Foundation

Summer Studio 25

Join us for Summer Studio 25 — a two-week program led by world-class planners, architects, and urbanists. Through a mixture of hands-on education, engaging lectures, and city walks, you’ll learn the core principles of urban planning and architecture.