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Page 10 The Skanner May 18, 2016 News Joyce Braden Harris, Danielle Arigoni, Courtney Griesel Honored by UO for Public Service Story by A&AA Communications J oyce Braden Harris, Danielle Ari- goni, and Courtney Griesel are the winners of the 2016 awards for pub- lic service conferred annually by the UO Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management and the depart- ment’s advisory council. The awards ceremony will take place Thursday in the Ford Alumni Center Guistina Ball- room on the University of Oregon cam- pus, 1720 E. 13th Avenue, Eugene. The awards ceremony will begin at 3 p.m. with a showcase of student work followed by the recognition and awards beginning at 3:30 p.m. Jeff Towery, as- sistant city manager in Springfield, Oregon, will be master of ceremonies. A&AA Interim Dean Brook Muller and PPPM Department Head Richard Margerum will provide welcoming re- marks. A post-program reception from 4:30- 5:45 p.m. will follow and includes dis- plays of graduate projects. In addition to these awards, the De- partmental Service Student Awards and the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award will be presented. The PPPM Advisory Council was established in the mid-1990s. It is com- posed of 12 to twenty members. Joyce Braden Harris Outstanding Service to Oregon Joyce Braden Harris is an educator, speaker, writer, workshop trainer, fa- cilitator, community activist, and advo- cate for justice and fairness. She is the manager of community engagement in the Executive Office at Education Northwest. Previously, Harris served as director of the Region X Equity As- sistance Center (EAC) for twenty-one years, providing training and technical assistance on race, gender, and nation- al origin in the Pacific Northwest, Ha- Joyce Braden Harris Danielle Arigoni waii, and the Pacific Islands. At age 19, Harris cofounded a private school in Portland that she considers one of her most rewarding experienc- es. She has taught science clubs at the Oregon Museum of Science and Indus- try, creative writing to talented and gifted students, and wrote a baseline essay on African American traditions in language arts for Portland Public Schools. She continues to work with school districts, agencies, and commu- nity organizations on equity issues and compliance with federal civil rights laws. She recently began to provide training on culturally responsive men- toring. She serves as co-chair of an advisory committee on Oregon House Bill 2016, focused on an African American/Black student success plan, and is on the Ear- ly Learning Division’s equity subcom- mittee. She was recently appointed to serve on Oregon’s Every Student Suc- ceeds Act statewide advisory commit- tee. Harris is the recipient of many awards recognizing more than forty-five years of volunteer work, including the 2014 Drum Major for Justice Award, the Woman of Excellence Award in Edu- cation and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award. Courtney Griesel An avid collector of books and mem- orabilia that document the history and culture of people of African descent, her personal library contains more than 8,000 books. Harris has a bachelor of arts in American Studies from Reed College, a bachelor of science in ele- mentary education from Oregon State University, a master’s degree in edu- cational administration from Portland State University, and has completed doctoral coursework at Oregon State University. Danielle Arigoni, BS ’91 Distinguished Alumna Danielle Arigoni has been a leader in key federal efforts to expand invest- ment in sustainability and resilience for nearly two decades. She serves as acting director for the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Economic Resilience, which recently awarded $1 billion to states and locali- ties to pilot resilient disaster recovery strategies considering climate risk. She serves as staff lead on the White House Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience and for HUD Secretary Ju- lian Castro’s Climate Council. Arigoni has served as a central fig- ure in the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a joint effort of HUD, the Department of Transportation, and the Environmental Protection Agency that coordinates federal investments and policies to support more integrat- ed, community-driven local land use and decision-making. For more than a decade at EPA, Arigoni led efforts to better integrate affordable housing into the smart growth movement, and helped to lead the publication of two early seminal publications on smart growth, “Affordable Housing and Smart Growth: Making the Connec- tion” and “Getting to Smart Growth: 100 Policies for Implementation.” She has also worked as a planner in- ternationally, first as a town planner in Murang’a, Kenya, as a US Peace Corps volunteer, and later as strategy team di- rector for USAID’s Urban Programs of- fice. She received EPA’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service in 2013 in recogni- tion of her efforts to advance the Part- nership for Sustainable Communities. Arigoni received a bachelor’s degree in planning, public policy and man- agement from University of Oregon in 1991, and a master’s degree of regional planning from Cornell University in 1997. Courtney Griesel, BS ’06 Distinguished Recent Alumna Courtney GrieselCourtney Griesel has been with the City of Springfield, Oregon, since 2006, focusing on eco- nomic and community development. She received a bachelor’s degree in planning, public policy and manage- ment from UO and a master of orga- nizational leadership from Gonza- ga University. Author of the City of Springfield Downtown Urban Renewal Plan and contributing author of the Glenwood Refinement Plan, she works to manage Springfield’s two urban re- newal areas and city-wide economic development, focusing on business growth, redevelopment, development, and public-private partnerships. She is the designer and manager of the downtown parking program, Springfield enterprise zone manager, and staff to other City-administered business incentive programs. She has tackled a wide range of public policy issues including current work as lead staff to an Oregon Solutions-designat- ed project focused on providing re- sources to mobile home park residents impacted by park closure. Additionally, Griesel provides staff support to the mayor and council, lead- ing efforts focused on the innovative use of secondary timber products and the integration of these efforts and products into current development op- portunities. From 2011 through 2013, she managed a public partnership with the University of Oregon Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) resulting in work on over twenty priority community projects with students, faculty, staff, and an array of community partners and businesses.
