Are We Preparing Young Planners for Today’s Politics?

Saturday, April 1, 2023

3:30 PM – 4:15 PM CDT

Location: 121A

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Division Endorsement: Planning and the Black Community Division

Moderator and Speaker(s)

DeAndra Navratil, AICP (she/her/hers)

Executive Director
Regional Planning & Coordinating Commission of Greene County, Ohio
Xenia, Ohio

Speaker(s)

PR

Phoenix Robinson (she/her/hers)

Principal Planner
TARCOG
Huntsville, Alabama

As the planning profession becomes more complex, training and preparing students for the planning profession is no easy task. What can we do to adequately prepare the next generation of young professionals as they enter this political climate? A roundtable discusses how mentorship and teaching soft skills and conflict resolution are critically important for tomorrow’s planning leaders.

NPC Peer Reviewers assigned this presentation a learning level of Intermediate. For more on learning-level descriptions, visit our General Information Page.

Learning Objectives:

Teach soft skills and conflict resolution techniques that are vital for promoting and adopting good planning policies and projects.
Mentor students and young professionals as they gain their first exposure to a political atmosphere and set them up for success from the beginning.
Promote self-care, positive mental health practices, and adherence to the AICP Code of Ethics in order to maintain resilience and professional longevity.