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SBAN’s in-person conference is back! Join us in the Washington, D.C., metro area November 12-14, 2025, to strategize about how to foster resilient small businesses and remain resilient in our anti-displacement work.

Biography:Jana VanderGoot is a registered architect who works at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and resilient urbanism. Her work focuses on the ways that buildings act as extensions of urban ecological networks, specifically where this applies to vegetated landscapes and the problem of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

The story originally appeared in Maryland Today. Written by John Tucker.

BiographyJesse Saginor is a nationally recognized scholar and practitioner at the intersection of real estate development, land use policy, and the built environment.

Biography:Maggie Haslam is an award-winning writer with over 25 years of experience in communications, marketing and publicity.

Sluggish new housing construction in Maryland is driving up prices and contributing to residents' inability to achieve the American dream of homeownership, according to a new University of Maryland study.

Road ruts, broken pieces of pottery and metal fragments long-buried along the north side of the University of Maryland’s campus may offer new clues about the land’s history, and the enslaved people who lived and worked there, through ongoing archeological research led by the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation’s Historic Preservation Program.

Biography:Stefan Woehlke is an assistant clinical professor in the Historic Preservation Program. His work focuses on community heritage empowerment by centering descendant communities in heritage projects. He is trained as a historical archaeologist that focuses on Cultural Landscape analysis using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

The overgrown lot in the small town of North Brentwood, Md. is easy to miss for the thousands of commuters who pass it daily on Rhode Island Avenue heading to and from Washington, D.C. But just under its weedy surface lies a remarkable story waiting to be unearthed—one told through amber glass and 19th century nails, peculiar metal and old coins.

This story appeared on the School of Public Health website. Written by Allison Leigh Eatough.

Biography:Clara Irazábal is the Director of the Urban Studies and Planning Program (URSP) at the University of Maryland (UMD), where she researches and teaches about the interactions of culture, politics, and placemaking and their impact on community development and socio-spatial justice.

Biography:A seasoned architect specializing in public design, Georgeanne Matthews’ portfolio comprises the institutional architecture that fortifies a community’s identity and sense of place: libraries, cultural centers, campus master plans and K-12 design.