Toni Griffin

传：Toni Griffin Director of Community Development City of Newark Newark, NJ Toni L. Griffin has built a twenty-year career in both the public and private sectors, combining the practice of architecture and urban design with the execution of innovative, large-scale, mixed-use urban redevelopment projects and citywide and neighborhood planning strategies. In June 2007, Ms Griffin became the newly appointed Director of Community Development for the City of Newark, New Jersey, responsible for creating a centralized division of planning and urban design. Prior to Newark, Ms. Griffin spent seven years in Washington, D.C., as Vice President and Director of Design for the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation from 2005 to 2006 and Deputy Planning Director for the D.C. Office of Planning from 2000 to 2005. In these public sector roles, Ms. Griffin oversaw large-scale redevelopment planning for the downtown, waterfront and commercial corridors, as well as the management of a comprehensive citywide neighborhood planning initiative. She also managed the master planning and development transaction for a mixed-use district around the new Washington National's ballpark, and influenced the design of major development and public realm projects along the Anacostia waterfront. Ms. Griffin began her career as an architect with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP in Chicago, where she became an Associate Partner involved in architecture and urban design projects including commercial developments in London, Barcelona, Sydney and Beijing; and urban redevelopment strategies for downtown Detroit and Chicago. Ms. Griffin received a Bachelor's of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame and a yearlong appointment as a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Her professional interests and experience have allowed her to serve on the Board of Directors of several non-profit civic and cultural organizations and lecture at various universities and conferences in the U.S. and Canada. Ms. Griffin is also currently an Adjunct Associate professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, teaching urban planning option studios and seminars on neighborhood planning and development. (June 09)