Andrew Hyder
Project Manager
andrew@urbanecology.org

Andrew joined Urban Ecology as a volunteer in the Summer of 2007. He first helped with outreach, facilitation, cartography, and publication for the East Bay Greenway. After being trained in waste and toxic reduction, he worked as a Green Business Auditor, assisting hundreds of business on the path to becoming certified. He was promoted to Project Manager in 2008, managing the participatory planning and design process of the Roosevelt Schoolyard. Currently he is in charge of the day to day operations of Urban Ecology.

He has facilitated dozens of community design workshops with participants ranging from school children to seniors and business owners. He is interested in sustainable urban design with its relationship to public safety and health, the environment, and the economic opportunities it presents. Andrew is an alumnus of the Urban Studies program at San Francisco State University.

Interns

Melissa Eckerman
Design Intern
melissa@urbanecology.org

Michael Xian Zhang
Design Intern
xzhang@dons.usfca.edu

Joe Joeng
Planning Intern
joe@urbanecology.org

Joe is a planning intern at Urban Ecology assisting with graphic productions, web site design, and technical support. He has assisted with many community design workshops, created several charette excercises, and coded our web based outreach efforts. He is interested in technology and multimedia productions and the way in which they can illustrate social messages. By interning at Urban Ecology he hopes to expand his knowledge of the urban design process.