Katherine Green, AICP

APA Sacramento Valley Section 2021 Emerging Planner Award

Rincon Consultants, Inc.’s Katherine (Katie) Green, AICP has recently received a 2021 Emerging Planner Award from the APA Sacramento Valley Section! This award celebrates emerging planners who have shown exemplary and continuous commitment and service to the Sacramento Valley Section, planning profession, and planning practice.

Katie is an AICP-certified environmental planner with seven years of experience in the planning field. A dedicated environmental professional with demonstrated expertise in environmental impact analysis and planning. As a project manager, she performs environmental analysis and manages a wide variety of projects throughout the northern California area and the state of California, with a focus on mixed-use development, CEQA streamlining, affordable housing projects, and environmental review for long-range planning documents including General Plans, Housing Elements, and Regional Transportation Plans/Sustainable Communities Strategies.

Katie has been involved with APA since 2018, when she participated in the PLAN program and served as an awards juror before joining the PLAN Steering Committee (SC) and serving as 2020 Awards Process Lead. In 2020, she was appointed Chair of the SC, facilitating each group session and SC meeting and provides program oversight from pre-program publicity and recruitment, through application review, mentor/mentee matching, orientation, program kickoff, and throughout the program year.

Congratulations, Katie!

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