Fellows Biographies

Phyllis Myers

President, State Resource Strategies.  Former  Senior Manager, World Wildlife Fund, Land and Heritage programs.  Senior Associate, The Conservation Foundation.  Director, Initiative and Referendum Institute ballot initiative project.  Adviser, EPA environmental education innovation grants program.  Co-creator and Editor, GreenSense reports on state, local, and private conservation finance.  Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts.   Steering Committee, International Conference on Heritage Conservation, Jerusalem, Israel. US Delegate, OSCE Conference on human dimension issues, Warsaw, Poland and ECE meeting on urban and regional planning, Krakow, Poland.  Senior Editor, CITY Magazine.  Senior staff, Rockefeller Task Force on Land Use and Urban Growth.

Author, Direct Democracy and Land Use: Eminent Domain and Big Box Development (USC Law School), Growth at the Ballot Box (Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Center), State Parks in a New Era (Conservation Foundation), Towards a New Generation of Environmental Advocates (National Parks and Conservation Association), . Co-Author, Democracy in Development (Environmental Law Institute). Co-Author, National Parks for a New Generation (Conservation Foundation). Contributor, Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation and Land Conservation through Public/ Private Partnerships (Lincoln Institute
of Land Policy).  Author, Aging in Place in Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods.  Co-Author, Neighborhood Conservation:  Lessons from Three Cities.  Editor, Urban Conservation and Federally Assisted Economic Development.

Served on boards of the Initiative and Referendum Institute, Committee of 100 on the Federal City, American Planning Association, World Monuments Fund, Friends of Peirce Mill, and National Coalition of Heritage Areas.