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Featured Speaker
Donovan Rypkema
Donovan Rypkema is principal of PlaceEconomics, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate
and economic development-consulting firm. The firm specializes in services to public
and non-profit sector clients who are dealing with downtown and neighborhood
commercial district revitalization and the reuse of historic structures. In 2004
Rypkema established Heritage Strategies International, a new firm created to provide
similar services to world-wide clients. He also teaches a graduate course in
preservation economics at the University ofPennsylvania.
Rypkema began his consulting practice in Rapid City, South Dakota and relocated to
Washington, DC in 1985. He has performed real estate and economic development
consulting services throughout the United States for State and local governments
and non-profit organizations with interests in a broad range of properties, from
National Historic Landmark Structures to Main Street commercial centers. His
specific fields of consultation include: feasibility analyses for real estate
development; training in community-based development; economic revitalization of
downtowns and neighborhood commercial centers; and the rehabilitation of historic
structures.
Prior to 1985, Mr. Rypkema was involved in the direct development and management
of residential, office, retail and National Register properties. He completed
appraisals of over 1500 properties including residences, office and apartment
buildings, farms, ranches and athletic facilities. His background includes teaching
pre-licensing and continuing education courses for real estate professionals.
Today Mr. Rypkema is recognized as an industry leader in the economics of preserving
historic structures. Since 1983 he has provided ongoing consulting services to the
National Trust for Historic Preservation and its National MainStreet Center. He has
undertaken assignments in 49 states and the District of Columbia.
Rypkema was educated at Columbia University where he received a Masters of Science
degree in Historic Preservation. He has lectured widely on economic and preservation
issues relating to rehabilitation, community development and commercial
revitalization. Mr. Rypkema’s short courses and workshops have been delivered to
architects, bankers, developers, preservationists, planners, and downtown managers.
He is author of several publications including Community Initiated Development, The
Economics of Rehabilitation, and the Downtown Real Estate Development Series. His
articles have appeared in the Journal of the American Planning Association,
Architectural Record, The Journal of Commercial Bank Lending, The Responsive
Community, Urban Land, Real Estate Finance, Investment Decisions, Places,
Preservation Forum, Vital Speeches, the Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society
and others. In Washington he has served on the Boards of Directors of North Capital
Neighborhood Development Corporation and the Washington Council of Agencies.
Rypkema has worked with such groups as the Urban Land Institute, the Mayors’
Institute on City Design, the American Planning Association, the International
Downtown Association, International Town and City Centre Conference, the World
Monuments Fund, the Center for Livable Communities and hundreds of other
international, national, statewide and local organizations.
Rypkema worked with the U.S. Army’s Office of Historic Properties creating
strategies for the redevelopment of historic buildings on active Army posts. As
part of this effort he has written a Feasibility Assessment Manual to be used at
the installation level Army-wide.
In recent years Mr. Rypkema has conducted statewide studies of the economic impact
of historic preservation in Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Indiana,New York
and Maryland and a citywide study in Philadelphia.
An updated edition of Rypkema’s book, The Economics of Historic Preservation: A
Community Leader’s Guide, was published by the National Trust for Historic
preservation in 2005 and is widely used by preservationists nationwide. In 2006 the
Russian Center for Heritage Trusteeship translated and published a Russian edition
of the book.
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Mr. Rypkema’s participation at
the 2010 Arizona Historic
Preservation Partnership
Conference is provided
through the generosity of the
Center for Desert Archaeology.
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Featured Speaker
Jon Talton
Jon Talton is a journalist and author living in Seattle. He writes the “On the Economy” column
and Sound Economy blog for the Seattle Times, and is editor and publisher of the blog Rogue Columnist
(www.roguecolumnist.com).
Jon is also the author of seven novels, including the David Mapstone Mysteries, among them Concrete
Desert, Dry Heat and Cactus Heart as well as The Pain Nurse, which kicked off a new series, The
Cincinnati Casebooks. His next novel, Deadline Man, a thriller, will be published in May.
For more than 25 years Jon has covered business and finance, specializing in urban economies, energy,
real estate and economics and public policy. Jon has been a columnist for the Arizona Republic, Charlotte
Observer and Rocky Mountain News, and his columns have appeared in newspapers throughout North America
on the New York Times News Service and other news services.
Jon served as business editor for several newspapers, including the Dayton Daily News, Rocky Mountain
News, Cincinnati Enquirer and Charlotte Observer. At Dayton, he was part of a team that was a finalist
for the Pulitzer Prize in Public Service, for the nation’s first computer-assisted report on worker
safety. In Charlotte, the business section was honored as one of the nation’s best by the Society of
American Business Editors and Writers. Among the stories he has covered are the landmark Texaco-Pennzoil
trial; the collapse of energy prices in the 1980s; the troubles of General Motors and the American auto
industry; the big bank mergers of the ‘90s, and America’s downtown renaissance. He was a Knight Western
Fellow in Journalism at the University of Southern California and a community fellow at the Morrison
Institute at Arizona State University.
Before journalism, he worked for four years as an ambulance medic in the inner city of Phoenix. He also
was an instructor in theater at Southeastern Oklahoma State University.
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Featured Speaker
Renée Bahl
Since June of 2009, Renée Bahl has served as the Executive Director of the Arizona State Parks Board. In prior
years, Bahl served as Director of San Diego County Parks and Recreation, where she directed the rebuild and
stabilization of 15,000 acres of parkland and 21 facilities after the 2003 Cedar and Paradise wildfires. During
her time in this position, she acquired more than 8,000 acres with 60% funded through grants since fiscal year 2003.
She also expanded the department and services to the public through completion and opening of a number of new parks.
Prior to her time with San Diego County Parks and Recreation, Bahl served as Assistant Director of Arizona State Parks
from March 1996-May 2002. She led $32 million in annual grant awards and more than $60 million in annual preservation,
recreation and acquisition projects with state and federal dollars. She managed the statewide non-motorized trail and
off-highway vehicle programs, land conservation program, State Historic Preservation Office and statewide planning.
She was instrumental in the design of the Land Conservation Acquisition program. Before that, she was a fiscal analyst
with the Joint Legislative Budget Committee for the Arizona State Legislature.
Bahl received her Master of Public Administration in Policy Analysis/Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management
from Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from
Emory University in Atlanta.
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Featured Speaker
Terry Goddard
Throughout his career, Terry Goddard has fought to improve the lives of Arizonans -- a commitment he continues as the
State's top law enforcement officer. Since first taking the oath as Attorney General in 2003, Terry has focused on protecting Arizona families:
Fighting cyber crime, especially identity theft and Internet crimes against children... Suing drug manufacturers and
predatory lenders for illegal and unfair business practices...Pursuing consumer fraud lawsuits, which have returned
millions of dollars toArizona consumers and forced significant changes in business practices... Leading the fight against
methamphetamine and helping achieve a dramatic reduction in statewide meth use... Working to reduce crime and taking
action against illegal trafficking in drugs, arms, money and human beings... Working to protect Arizona's environment,
gaining a record $12 million environmental damage settlement against a land developer...Going after car dealers and
other companies that use deceptive advertising.
Terry's 30-year legal career began when he was hired by the Arizona Attorney General's Office as a white-collar
crime prosecutor. He was elected Mayor of Phoenix four times, leading the City from 1984 to 1990. During those
years, Phoenix made significant strides in expanding and modernizing law enforcement and setting up nationally-recognized
programs in economic development, the arts and historic preservation. He was elected President of the National League
of Cities in 1989 and named "Municipal Leader of the Year" by City and County Magazine.
From 1995 to 2002, Terry served as Arizona Director for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
In 2000, he was elected to the board of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District, which manages the Central Arizona Project.
Terry is an Arizona native, born and raised in Tucson. His father, Sam Goddard, served as Arizona's Governor in the
1960s. Terry received his law degree from Arizona State University. He served an active duty tour in the Navy and retired
as a Commander after 27 years in the Naval Reserves. He and his wife Monica have a young son.
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Guest Speaker
Philip D. Allsopp, RIBA, FRSA, Founder/Principal, Transpolis Global, LLC
Phil is co-founder of Transpolis Global, LLC, a hybrid management and design consulting firm devoted
to improving urban and rural policy and the habitats under which communities, cultures, commerce, the
arts and sciences are able to thrive. Transpolis Global works with clients as both a catalyst for
action as well as an applied research entity through its formal linkages to key universities. The name
Transpolis encompasses two ideas; ‘Trans’ as in Transdisciplinary to cross and converge traditional
disciplines operating in relative isolation, and 'Polis' as in city-state, and the notion of citizenship.
Phil served as President and CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, headquartered at Taliesin West,
Arizona from 2006 through June of 2009. He was responsible for restructuring the Foundation from
governance (new bylaws and articles of incorporation) through operations and the development of new
relationships with academia, arts and culture organizations, government and business. One of several
collaborations Phil developed during his tenure was with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The
jointly curated, produced and designed exhibition entitled “Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward”,
broke all of the Guggenheim’s previous attendance records during exhibition’s three-month run at
the Guggenheim in New York. The Exhibition traveled to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao in October
where it will be running through February 14th, 2010.
Phil holds a D.Arch with First Class Honors from Kingston University London, is a Chartered Member
of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and also serves as Vice President of the Board of
Trustees for the RIBA-USA and is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London. With
support from a Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Scholarship, Phil earned a Master of Science
degree in health services planning and design from Columbia University, New York, after which
he served in the US Government as a Public Health Service Fellow assigned to the Office of the
Surgeon General and also the Health Care FInancing Administration. Phil has held practice
leadership roles with major management consulting firms serving the health care industry
internationally including A.T. Kearney, Electronic Data Systems Corporation, Axios Data Analysis
Systems Corporation, Apogee Informatics, Inc., and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).
Phil is also Treasurer of Local First Arizona Foundation, a US non-profit organization devoted to developing
local commerce by shifting consumer spending and attitudes toward local talent, business arts and culture.
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Guest Speaker
Kaisa Barthuli
Kaisa Barthuli has worked with the National Park Service since 1990 in cultural resource management. Her
experience includes historic and archeological site preservation, survey, documentation, and data management.
She currently serves as the Acting Program Manager of the National Park Service, Route 66 Corridor
Preservation Program. In this role she works with individuals, nonprofit organizations, and government
agencies to administer technical assistance, clearinghouse information, and cost-share grants for the
preservation of the most significant and representative historic Route 66 resources from Chicago to Santa Monica.
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Guest Speaker
Philip Beere
Recognized by The Phoenix Business Journal as one of the Valley’s Green Pioneers, Philip Beere is a champion of
sustainability and an expert in green remodeling. He was born inKobe, Japan and spent his childhood in Barcelona,
Spain before his family settled in Napa,CA. His undergraduate degree is from University of California, Santa Barbara;
he also earned a Masters of Real Estate Development from Arizona State University’s WP Carey School of Business.
Beere's Green Street completed the first Gold LEED certified single family remodel in the United States and the first
NAHB Emerald-certified remodel in the United States; both houses serve as the company’s prototype for redevelopment of
the urban core, retrofitting structures to LEED and NAHB green rating systems, and creating walkable neighborhoods.
Additionally, Green Street is and official USGBC education provider, and is in charge of the green building curriculum
for universities, and for green building professionals.
Beere’s professional affiliations include Urban Land Institute, Phoenix Workforce Connection Board Member, NAHB,
Chairman of YouthBuild Advisor Group, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, and ASU's Master of Real Estate Development
Alumni Association. He has presented green building seminars to Arizona’s Native American Communities, the National
Solar Home Tours, Arizona State University, Scottsdale Green Building seminars, Greenbuild 2009, ASID chapters, the
American Institute of Architects, the International Builders Show, and the NAHB Green Conference as the spokesperson
for the National Green Building Standard.
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Guest Speaker
Ava Bromberg
Ava Bromberg's research and professional practice focus on creative local economies, public and social
goods, community-driven planning and responsible development. She is working to reinvent strip malls
as neighborhood nodes for living local economies where people can shop, learn, work and socialize. Ava
is a co-founder of Mess Hall, a storefront experimental cultural center in Chicago, co-organizer of
the Just Space(s) exhibition and symposium series, and co-editor of the book Belltown Paradise / Making
Their Own Plans. She has a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from UCLA where she is a doctoral candidate.
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Guest Speaker
Dr. Bev Browning
As Director of the Grant Writing Training Foundation, Bev Browning has assisted clients and workshop participants
throughout the United States in receiving grant awards of more than $200 million. She is the author of Grant Writing
for Dummies and over 30 other grant-related publications. Bev is a member of AAGP and is an online instructor
for www.ed2go.com.
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Guest Speaker
James Monroe (Jim) Conkle
Since 2002 Jim Conkle has worked full time on the preservation, restoration,
and promotion of Route 66. He has become a major spokesperson for Route 66
and has worked with state, national, and international associations as well
as tour operators and government agencies. He has built a large network of
supporters through presentations to service clubs and national conferences
and he has lobbied for the road on regional and national levels. Jim
has been a driving force behind several awards received by Hampton
Inn/Hilton Hotels during the recent past. Thanks to Jim's sales and
marketing expertise the hospitality giant was the recipient of the 2003
Public Relations Society of America's Silver Anvil; 2004 Smithsonian Award
for Preservation, and 2006 Presidential Preserve America Award. Founder,
CEO and Chairman of the Board of Preservation of Historic Roads and
Corridors, Jim has served as consultant to the Electric Vehicle Industry,
Palm Springs Follies, San Bernardino Convention and Visitor's Bureau
Rendezvous, Bureau of Land management, and National Park Services. He is the
Publisher, General Manager and Editor of the Route 66 Pulse newspaper, the
voice of the Route 66 Alliance. While working for the Automobile Club of
Southern California, Jim took part in the opening of a new Route 66
museum in Victorville, CA. He has served on the museum's board of
directors since 1997. His interest in and work on behalf of the
preservation of Route 66 grew from that local effort to
marketing regional and national events along the road, including the 66
Caravan in 2003. Jim has worked with Michael Wallis since 2004 as co-chair of the Will Rogers
Award ceremony and annual banquet. When it became apparent that a newspaper
was needed to cover news along the whole stretch of the highway from
Illinois to California, Jim stepped in as general manager, eventually
becoming editor and publisher of the Route 66 Pulse. Jim' has worked
with Senator Diane Feinstein, San Bernardino Convention and
Visitor's Bureau, Bureau of Land Management and National Park Services on
projects critical to the preservation of Route 66. He is a member of
National Trust for Historic Preservation and Historic Roads.
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Guest Speaker
Dr. Bill Doelle
William H. Doelle received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1980. He is currently President of
Desert Archaeology, Inc. and President and CEO of the nonprofit Center for Desert Archaeology. His research
interests are the large-scale demographic and cultural changes of the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest
from A.D. 1200 to 1700. Preservation of archaeological sites and sharing research results with the public are
his other professional priorities.
He served terms on the boards of two national professional organizations: the Archaeology Division of the
American Anthropological Association and the Society for American Archaeology. He serves currently as Treasurer
of the Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance, as Treasurer of the Naco Heritage Alliance, and is Vice President of
the Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation.
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Guest Speaker
Sean Evans
Sean Evans is an archivist at Cline Library, Special Collections and Archives, Northern Arizona University. Sean
has been the Government Documents Librarian, and a Reference Librarian during his career at NAU that began in 1981. Sean
holds a graduate degree in History and Political Science from NAU and a Masters Degree in Information Research
and Library Science from theUniversity of Arizona. Sean will speak about the preservation of Route 66 through
archival activities, and how that material can be made available to audiences beyond the archive or library via
digitization. He will also speak about the evolution of Route 66 writing, and what effect primary source material
has played in that process. The presentation includes images of the evolution of Route 66 in Arizona, and archival
and intellectual preservation activities.
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Guest Speaker
Sharlene S. Fouser, Byway Leader
Historic Route 66 All-American Road - Arizona
Sharlene Fouser’s desire to leave big city life and business behind led her to Flagstaff in 1995 where she
opened a successful coffee shop/café on Flagstaff’s Eastside. After selling the business in 2001, Sharlene’s
hopes to return to her marketing roots, combined with her goal to be more involved with her community, led her
to accept the position of Visitor Service’s Manager for the City of Flagstaff. Literally working on Route 66
gave Sharlene an appreciation of what the Route means to world-wide travelers. Following the designation of
Route 66 as a National Scenic Byway in 2006, Sharlene joined the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona to
establish Arizona’s Route 66 Scenic Byway Program. The program has helped several communities receive historic
preservation grants, and was successful in getting Arizona’s stretch of Route 66 designated as an All-American Road in 2009.
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Guest Speaker
Kelley Hays-Gilpin
Kelley Hays-Gilpin is Professor of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University and Curator of Anthropology at
the Museum of Northern Arizona. She has published widely on the subjects of Colorado Plateau ceramics and rock art.
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Guest Speaker
Julie Hoff
Julie Hoff is the Map Librarian at the Arizona State Archives. She has also worked in large map collections at
Arizona State University and the University of Kansas. In addition to providing map reference assistance, she
researches name proposals submitted to the Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names.
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Guest Speaker
Dr. Jonathan Mabry
Dr. Jonathan Mabry is the Historic Preservation Officer for the City of Tucson. He manages historic preservation,
archaeological compliance, and heritage-based economic development for the City. He has 30 years of archaeological
experience, including fieldwork in the Middle East, American Midwest, and American Southwest. For the past nine
years he has also worked in historic preservation and heritage resource planning and development in Tucson and
southern Arizona. He has been a Commissioner on the Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission, and a cultural
resources advisor for Pima County's Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. He currently serves on the Governor’s
Archaeological Advisory Council, and is the Board Chairman of the nonprofit Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance.
He is the main author of the Feasibility Study for the proposed Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area in
southern Arizona, and is helping lead the effort to obtain Congressional designation. He regularly gives
professional and public lectures on archaeology, historic preservation, and heritage resource planning and development.
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Guest Speaker
Bill Mackey
Bill Mackey was born in 1969 in Lansing, Michigan. He received degrees from the University of Illinois (BS Architectural
Studies 1991) and the University of Arizona (B.Arch and M.Arch 1994) with a primary focus on the social construction of
space. His art has shown in galleries in Chicago and Tucson, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, the University
of Arizona, and the Tucson-Pima Public Library. His illustrations are in the New Yorker, the Journal of Creative
Geography, SELECT Media, Proximity Magazine and the Lumpen Times. Annually, he produces work for the Version Festival,
a multi-media event held in Chicago. He has practiced architecture since 1995 – designing landscapes, residences,
educational facilities, recreation and community centers, court facilities, historic preservation projects, master
plans, offices, restaurants, and retail space. In 1995, he created Worker, Inc., a company that specializes in
promoting change in the built environment. In 2007, he formed the Neighborhood Residents Resources Ethnography
Studies Unit, a division of Worker, Inc., to understand local physical environments on a scientific level. In 2007,
he co-found the design co*op, a group of designers and architects with the expressed mission that the built environment
should improve the quality of life for all. Since its inception, thedesign co*op, has facilitated sessions with the
general public and school groups addressing issues of density, public space, and public art. He currently lives in
Tucson, Arizona practicing architecture at Rob Paulus Architects. He is the Architect-in-Residence at theMuseum of
Contemporary Art in Tucson and sits on the Plans Review Subcommittee of the Tucson Pima County Historic Commission.
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Guest Speaker
Paho Mann
Paho Mann’s work investigates the physical manifestation of individuality, using both traditional photographic
practices and contemporary digital technology. His work has been included in exhibitions at the Arizona State
University Art Museum (Tempe,AZ), Tucson Museum of Art (Tucson, AZ), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) and the
Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh,PA) among others. Mann’s work is included in the Tucson Museum of Art’s permanent
collection and has been commissioned for public art projects by the city of Phoenix. Mann was born in 1978 on his
parents homestead near Snowflake Arizona. In 1992 he moved with his family to Albuquerque, New Mexico where in 2001
he received a BFA from the University of New Mexico. He received his MFA from Arizona State University in 2007. Currently,
Mann lives and works in Denton Texas, where he is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of North
Texas. For more information, visit www.pahomann.com.
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Guest Speaker
Linda Mayro
Linda Mayro manages the Pima County Office of Cultural Resources and Historic Preservation that provides cultural
resources management, technical and administrative review services in historic preservation compliance, regional
planning, and coordination with local, state, federal, and tribal governments. She also oversees implementation of
the County’s Historic Preservation Bond Program and the cultural resources and ranch conservation efforts of Pima
County’s Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan. In addition, Linda recently concluded a 9 year term as Arizona Advisor
to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and is currently a board member of the Santa Cruz Valley Heritage
Alliance, seeking Congressional designation of Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area in Pima and Santa Cruz counties.
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Guest Speaker
Dr. Rhonda Phillips, AICP, CEcD
Revitalization has been the focus of Rhonda’s work for nearly 25 years in economic and community development.
Her book, Concept Marketing for Communities, profiles towns and cities across the U.S. that use innovative
strategies for rebuilding and revitalizing their economies, including arts and other popular culture, corporate
iconicism, and historic preservation approaches. See Praeger/Greenwood Press, at
http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/C6798.aspx). She has been involved in a variety of development activities,
including development and presentation of Artful Business, a forum on arts-based development strategies for
community revitalization that brought together national experts with community leaders. Her most recent book,
Introduction to Community Development, incorporates a variety of strategies and approaches for effective
development processes and outcomes
(http://www.routledge.com/books/An-Introduction-to-Community-Development-isbn978041577385).
As a Fulbright Scholar, she served as the 2006 UK Ulster Policy Fellow, working with communities and organizations
in Northern Ireland to build on historic and cultural assets for community regeneration. Rhonda has worked
in development and planning in all sectors – private, nonprofit, and public and holds dual professional
certifications in both planning and economic development (the AICP from the American Institute of
Certified Planners and the CEcD – Certified Economic Developer from the International Economic
Development Association). Her Ph.D is in City and Regional Planning with an Economic Development
major from the Georgia Institute of Technology; she also holds a M.S. in Economics from Georgia Tech
and a M.S. in Economic Development and B.S. in Geography from the University of Southern Mississippi.
She is the Immediate Past Chair of the Economic Development Division of the American Planning Association
and continues to serve the community development profession as Editor of Community Development: Journal of
the Community Development Society, www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rcod.
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Guest Speaker
Charlene Dwin Vaughn
Charlene Dwin Vaughn, AICP, is an Assistant Director in the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s (ACHP’s)
Office of Federal Agency Programs. She has over thirty years experience in urban planning and historic preservation.
As an Assistant Director, she is responsible for managing staff that coordinate Section 106 reviews for Federal
funding, permits, licenses, and approvals. She is also involved in policy, program, and legislative initiatives,
including the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 and its impact on historic properties. During her
tenure at the ACHP, Ms. Vaughn has improved Federal agency compliance with historic preservation laws through her
efforts in affordable housing, banking, telecommunications, and Federal property management. She is an instructor
for the agency’s introductory and advanced training courses and has developed site specific training for Federal
and State agencies, local governments, and professional, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), the Federal Communication Commission, and Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA).
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies and Masters Degree in Urban Regional Planning from George Washington
University. Since 1993, Ms. Vaughn has been a certified planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).
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Guest Speaker
Dr. Jim Watson
Dr. Watson's research examines health and disease in prehistoric populations through their skeletal remains. He is
specifically interested in understanding prehistoric human adaptations in desert ecosystems and the role local resources
play in the adoption of agriculture and their impact on health. Current projects involve the excavation and analysis
of the earliest farmers in the Sonoran Desert and of incipient agriculturalists in the Atacama Desert, along the
northern coast of Chile.
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Guest Speaker
John Westerlund
John Westerlund served for 26 years as a U. S. Army field artillery officer, retiring as a lieutenant colonel. He has
taught at Northern Arizona University and the Ecole Superieure de Guerre in Paris, France. He returned to graduate
school, completing doctoral studies in American West history at Northern Arizona University in 2001. His book "Arizona's
War Town: Flagstaff, Navajo Ordnance Depot, and World War II" (2003, University of Arizona Press) won several awards to
include recognition for preservation of Southwest culture. He is currently a seasonal interpretive ranger for the
National Park Service in Flagstaff.
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Guest Speaker
LTC Mary Williams-Lynch, Camp Navajo Garrison Commander
LTC Mary Williams-Lynch joins Camp Navajo after spending the past year (2008-2009) in Afghanistan where she served
as a Red Team Member, developing scenarios for the 101st & 82nd Joint Task Force Commanding Generals. She began
her career over 23 years ago rising up the enlisted ranks and gaining her commission through the ROTC program in
South Dakota. LTC Williams-Lynch served for 13 years with the South Dakota Army National Guard before being
assigned to the National Guard Bureau in Washington, DC where she served from 1998-2008. Her final position
before her deployment was serving as an Army Legislative Liaison in the Pentagon from 2003-2008 working with
both the Appropriations and Authorization Defense Committees.
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