David Berniker, LEED AP, AICP, Assoc. AIA

Urban Designer, Planner

Connecting people, places and policy is David’s defining focus. With an eye toward sustainability and climate resilience, he aspires to create inclusive communities, environments, and economies that are safe, healthy, and accessible to all people. For David, it is about storytelling - strategizing, developing, and communicating possibilities. David enjoys working iteratively with stakeholders—neighborhood groups, municipalities, and private groups—in a manner that aligns with the community's history and vision.

Taylor Berberich, MS

Urban Designer, Graphics Specialist

Taylor is an urban designer who focuses on creating walkable, inviting urban spaces, regulatory analysis, and graphics production for projects and outreach. Taylor has worked in both the private and public sectors on a broad range of projects including state parks, educational facilities, city planning and urban design. Her love for urban spaces emerged from frustration with cities and feeling lost among cars and traffic. The ability to shape the urban fabric into vibrant spaces for all users is what propels her work. Taylor has worked in varied locales such as the United Kingdom, Southcentral Alaska and the Aleutians, the Pacific Northwest and the Inland Northwest.

Kevin Howard

Urban Designer, Planner

Kevin Howard is a community planner and urban designer with an interdisciplinary professional and academic background. Kevin is a Founding Principal of Urbinden Design Lab, a city planning, urban design, and public policy firm focused on leveraging cross-disciplinary collaboration to build more sustainable and equitable places. In his work, research, and advocacy, Kevin focuses on promoting abundant and equitable housing, human-oriented and resilient places, sustainability through land use planning and infrastructure systems, regulatory transparency, and the democratization of city building.

Elizabeth Nelson

Project Manager, Production Assistant

Elizabeth is a design-curious generalist focused on project implementation and code and policy analysis. As deputy project manager the office relies on Elizabeth to oversee the myriad details of a project, making sure everything comes in on time and on budget. Prior to joining Urbsworks Elizabeth worked in nonprofit and public agencies where she helped improve programs to better serve communities through outreach and engagement. She has a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan with a focus on housing and community development.

Joseph Readdy

Urban Designer

Joseph has 40-years of experience in the planning, design, and implementation of projects of all scales from the individual building, to the neighborhood, district, village, town, and city. Large scale projects include: regional plans, city plans, urban design, and campus master plans in a variety of contexts, from downtowns, main streets and transit-oriented development. He is able to synthesize complex land use, transportation network, street and building design into cohesive concepts for implementation. He brings strong graphic skills and illustration skills, from hand-sketching to computerized 3-D visualization.