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 Partner, Davis Brody Bond, LLC
Recognized internationally as one of the United States’ leading architects and educators, Mr. Bond has designed many award-winning buildings, including the Bolgatanga Library in Ghana, the Birmingham Civil Rights Museum; and The Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Mr. Bond helped establish the Architects Renewal Committee of Harlem (ARCH), one of the early community design centers that developed during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He co-founded Bond Ryder and Associates which quickly became one of the leading African-American architecture firms in New York and the East Coast. Mr. Bond continues his involvement with the Harlem community with his work on the restoration and expansion of the Apollo Theater and the 125th Street cultural area, the Columbia University Health Sciences Audubon Research and Technology Park, and the Strivers Gardens Condominium Complex. Mr. Bond served as a New York City Planning Commissioner from 1980 to 1986 before merging his firm with Davis Brody Bond in 1990. Mr. Bond taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture and Planning for sixteen years, with four years as Chair. He was Dean of the School of Architecture and Environmental Studies at City College of New York. Mr. Bond recently completed the expansion of the Harvard Club of New York and is currently directing the firm’s role as the Associate Architect for the World Trade Center Site Memorial. Mr. Bond received a BA Honors and MArch from Harvard University.
 Vice Chair of the Board
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville
Ms. Conboy is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville and also serves as Chair of the HFHGC Resource Development Committee and the Sunrise Park Planning Committee. Ms. Conboy and the Resource Development Committee proposed the idea of buying and redeveloping trailer parks to create medium density mixed-income developments and to prevent the displacement of trailer park residents that often occurs when trailer parks are sold. Ms. Conboy and her committee also created the annual Roof Over Every Child pledge event and the Homes for Humanity Society, a multi-year giving society, and encouraged the creation of a successful store that encourages the re-use of building materials that otherwise might go to the landfill. Ms. Conboy is a “hands on” board member who continues to volunteer in the office and to work with families, in addition to serving on the board. In addition to volunteering for Habitat, she volunteers as a court appointed special advocate for children through Piedmont CASA. Ms. Conboy was co-founder of Families of Children Under Stress (FOCUS) in Atlanta. She also was a founding board member of the Oakland Foundation, which supports a school for young people with learning disabilities.
 Principal, Estudio Teddy Cruz
Estudio Teddy Cruz was established in 1993. The work of Mr. Cruz and his associates dwells at the border between San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico, inspiring a practice and pedagogy that emerges out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production. He has taught and lectured in various universities in the US and Latin America and is currently an Associate Professor in the school of architecture at Woodbury University in San Diego. Mr. Cruz has received awards for projects on both sides of the border including a San Diego AIA Honor Award, two PA Awards from Architecture magazine, the Architectural League of New York Young Architects Forum Award and the ACSA Robert Taylor Teaching Award. This year, he received the 2004-05 James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize, sponsored by the CCA in Montreal, the Van Alen Institute, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1991, Mr. Cruz received the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture, becoming a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Mr. Cruz has been involved in many civic and cultural advocacy groups at a local, national and international level. His work has been published in various architectural journals and newspapers, including Global Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Architecture Record, Casas International, Thresholds MIT, The San Diego Union, The Los Angeles Times,PraxisMagazine and Princeton Architecture press’ City Limits. It has also been exhibited locally, nationally and internationally, most recently in the exhibition “Urban Diagnostics,” commemorating the 25 th anniversary of the Centro Cultural de Tijuana.
 Resident, Sunrise Trailer Court
Born and raised in the Belmont neighborhood of Charlottesville, Virginia, Marion Chapman Dudley has been a Sunrise Trailer Court resident for 25 years. When Ms. Dudley was born at Martha Jefferson Hospital, her parents brought her home to her grandparents' house on Monticello Avenue. A year later, the young family moved to their own home on Tufton Avenue where they raised their daughter and her two brothers. When her father passed away in 1958, Ms. Dudley credits the sense of security she and her brothers felt to the love and support of friends and neighbors in the close-knit community. After graduation from Charlottesville's Lane High School in 1968, Ms. Dudley worked at K Mart. She married in early 1970 and raised her own family in the Belmont neighborhood. Renting homes over a ten-year period, she and her husband purchased their mobile home in 1980. Ms. Dudley describes the community today as tree lined streets with well kept lawns, filled with children's laughter. She finds the people are caring and kind, more like family members. Ms. Dudley particularly appreciates the older homes in the Belmont area as they are reminiscent of a long ago era that was the foundation of Charlottesville.
 Director of Construction & Environmental Resources
Habitat for Humanity International
Mr. Eastwood's department at Habitat for Humanity International helps international and US Habitat affiliates build quality houses at the lowest possible cost. The department specializes in providing information and training on a variety of construction issues such as construction management and methods, building materials, energy efficiency, healthy indoor air quality, house design and accessibility. Nevil also currently holds an interim position of Senior Vice President of Program, supervising headquarter based Habitat programs. He has been with Habitat since 1992. Before filling his current Director position, Nevil worked with many affiliates throughout the United States, and the world as a construction supervisor. This included helping affiliates prepare for, and stage, "blitz builds" including the annual Jimmy Carter Work Project. Before Habitat he operated his own construction company in his native land, New Zealand.
 Principal, Koning Eizenberg Architecture
Ms. Eizenberg's belief that design excellence can be achieved in restricted budget and socially-oriented projects has been a driving force at Koning Eizenberg Architecture. The success of the firm's projects nationally and internationally has helped refocus architects' attention on these issues. Ms. Eizenberg is the Thomas Jefferson Professor for 2005 at the University of Virginia. As design principal, she has led the design effort for the Avalon Hotel, PS#1 Elementary School Expansion, Plummer Park Community Center, Virginia Avenue Park Expansion, Electric ArtBlock, the Simone Hotel, Sepulveda Gym, the Ken Edwards Center for Community Services, and 5th Street Housing in Santa Monica. Current projects include the Herb Alpert Educational Village, Oakwood Elementary School, Rad Sunset Lofts, and a community park for the City of Santa Monica. KEA has also won two national competitions under Ms. Eizenberg's design direction: Chicago Public School Northside and the Pittsburgh Children's Museum that opened in November 2004. She has won numerous awards in the past 20 years, including the Savings by Design Energy Efficiency Integration Award, Westside Urban Forum Prize, AIA California Council Honor Award for PS #1 Elementary School and the AIA California Council Merit Award for 5th Street Affordable Family Housing. She is licensed as an Architect in California and Australia, and holds degrees in Architecture from the University of Melbourne, Australia and the University of California, Los Angeles.
 Board Member, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville
Mr. Grigg is a registered architect in the State of Virginia and has served on the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville since July 2004. For more than 20 years as partner in the firm of Daggett & Grigg Architects, Mr. Grigg has managed, designed and served as project architect on numerous building projects in the public and private sector. His design flexibility; background and interest in development; and his entrepreneurial approach has allowed his career to span a variety of building types, including medical, institutional, commercial and residential. His expertise in project planning and conceptual design, from site issues to integration of plan components, along with his ability to capture appropriate building imagery‚ has become a hallmark of Daggett & Grigg’s work. Mr. Grigg is noted for his contextual approach to design and for creating buildings that enhance their local environments. The firm was given a design award from the James River Chapter of the AIA for Queen Charlotte Square, a 90,000sf, $8 million multi-use condominium project, for which Mr. Grigg developed the overall concept and image in its historic Charlottesville Court Square setting.
Charlottesville City Council
Ms. Hamilton is a member of the Charlottesville City Council. Ms. Hamilton has been a resident of Charlottesville since 1994 and is a dedicated community and neighborhood activist. Under her leadership as president of the Rose Hill Neighborhood Association from 2002-2005, the neighborhood worked to upgrade its deteriorating housing stock, protect homeowners from commercial encroachment, and develop partnerships to preserve affordable housing. Her efforts resulted in the Charlottesville Planning Commission naming Rose Hill “Neighborhood of the Year” and Ms. Hamilton “Citizen Planner of the Year.”
Ms. Hamilton has forged a multifaceted career as a writer. Her journalism appears regularly in Black Issues in Higher Education, of which she is the assistant editor. Her scholarly work and essays have appeared in Southern Cultures and BrightLeaf: New Writing of the South, among others. Her poetry has appeared in the Southern Review, Callaloo, Shenandoah, River Styx, and Obsidian III. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia and expects her degree in 2005. In 1995, she received a MFA in poetry from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1980, she received an AB in English from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
 Belmont Neighborhood Association
John Woodriff is a real estate agent with Charlottesville's leading broker McLean Faulconer, Inc. He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia. While his family moved away for a number of years, he returned to complete his high school education at Tandem School. Upon graduation, Mr. Woodriff pursued a BA In Human Studies with a Minor in Economics at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina. Employment opportunities after college took him abroad for a number of years; first with an aquaculture operation in Belize, Central America, then as liaison between local and US staff on a reforestation project in Tanzania, East Africa. Mr. Woodriff purchased a home in the Belmont neighborhood a year ago and is an active member of the Belmont Neighborhood Association. He has expressed concern about changes in the fabric of the community caused by rising real estate values and has stated he would be unable to purchase a home in Belmont today due to the increase in land costs.
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