Canadian Institue Of Planners

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Editorial Committee

The Plan Canada Editorial Committee is responsible for encouraging high-quality, timely, relevant, and engaging planning-related content for Plan Canada magazine.
 


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Lyndsay Francis RPP, MCIP

(Co-Chair, 2023)

1st Term: November 2021 - November 2023

Lyndsay is originally from the east coast where they obtained a Bachelor of Community Design with Honours in Urban Design Studies from Dalhousie University. After graduating, they moved west and began their career in the private sector working with several rural and small urban municipalities around the Edmonton Region. Lyndsay now works in the public sector at the City of St. Albert focusing on long-range planning projects.  

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Yasmin Afshar

1st Term: July 2023 - July 2025
 

Sarah Ezzio, RPP

1st Term: December 2022 - December 2024

Sarah is a Registered Professional Planner with experience working in the private and public sectors on a wide range of development projects, planning studies, and long-range planning initiatives across Ontario. She is currently a development review planner with the City of Ottawa and enjoys learning new things.

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Devin Husk 

1st Term: March 2022 - March 2024
 

Rylan Graham PhD, RPP, MCIP

1st Term: December 2022 - December 2024

Rylan Graham is an Assistant Professor in the School of Planning and Sustainability at the University of Northern British Columbia. Rylan’s research focuses on issues related to growth management, intensification, downtown revitalization, and with a particular focus on mid-sized Canadian cities. Rylan has a PhD from the University of Calgary, a Master of Arts, Planning from the University of Waterloo, and a Bachelor of Arts, Geography from the University of Regina. Prior to entering academia, he practiced as a planner in Alberta and Saskatchewan.

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Raymond Kan RPP, MCIP

1st Term: July 2023 - July 2025
 
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Kristy Kilbourne RPP, MCIP

2nd Term: December 2019 - December 2023

Kristy is a passionate Registered Professional Planner with diverse experience in the municipal and non-profit sectors. In addition to serving on Plan Canada's Editorial Committee, Kristy is an active member and volunteer with the Ontario Professional Planners Institute and various other community and professional organizations. She is also the founder/principal of Your Planning Career, an organization that supports career development for planners. Kristy lives in the Greater Toronto Area with her husband and 3 sons.  

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Robyn Rechenmacher RPP, MCIP

1st Term: December 2022 - December 2024

Originally from northern Alberta, Robyn has always considered the prairies home. Robyn is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan Regional & Urban Planning program and has been fortunate enough to have lived and worked in different provinces across Canada in the private, public, and non-profit sectors. She is a Council member of the Saskatchewan Professional Planners Institute. Currently, she provides land use planning and development services and support for rural municipalities in Saskatchewan as the Senior Community Planner at the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, and is an avid volunteer in her community and profession.

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Tatsuyuki Setta RPP, MCIP

1st Term: November 2021 - November 2023

Tatsuyuki is a registered professional planner in Canada, the U.S and Japan and member of the CIP since 2011. He has 20 years of work experience in urban policy, regional transportation planning, downtown revitalization, heritage planning, and zoning administration. Prior to joining the City of Courtenay as the Manager of Community and Sustainability Planning, he worked for the City of Lethbridge and the City of Regina as well as two consulting firms in Japan. He was an editorial member of the Plan Canada Centenary Special Edition between 2016 and 2019. He obtained his master’s degree in urban planning from McGill University and bachelor of law degree from Kansai University in Osaka, Japan. 

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Bhagyashree (Shree) Shinde RPP, MCIP

1st Term: July 2023 - July 2025
 
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Ray Tomalty

2nd Term: December 2019 - December 2023

Ray is Principal of Smart Cities Research, a consultancy in Montreal that specializes in urban sustainability, including growth management, active transportation, green infrastructure, community energy planning, housing affordability, fiscal issues, and urban governance. He is also an Adjunct Professor at McGill University's School of Urban Planning. He has a Ph.D. in urban planning from the University of Waterloo and a Master’s in public administration from Queen’s University in Kingston.

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Ezra Wasser RPP, MCIP

1st Term: July 2023 - July 2025
 

Kyle Whitfield PhD, RPP, MCIP

1st Term: December 2022 - December 2024

Dr. Kyle Whitfield is an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, School of Urban and Regional Planning. Her focus is on community planning; this encompasses planning with older adults both in an urban and rural setting. She is curious about citizen engagement in planning related decision making and methods of qualitative research. She is a RPP and MCIP.