SEASIDE Institute™ has announced speakers for the 2025 SEASIDE Prize™. These dynamic individuals will join us February 7-9, 2025, as we honor the career achievements of Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson.
Dolores Hayden
Dolores Hayden is professor emerita of architecture, urbanism, and American studies at Yale University. She is the author of many award-winning books including Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 (Pantheon, 2003), A Field Guide to Sprawl (W.W. Norton, 2004), and Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing, and Family Life (W.W. Norton, 2002).
Devaki Kesh
Devaki Kesh is an architect and urban designer who is passionate about vernacular and local architecture, public space design, conservation, and form-based codes. She is an Associate at Principle, an award-winning planning, urban design, and development firm committed to creating authentic places for human-oriented environments. She received a master’s degree in urban design from Georgia Tech and a bachelor’s degree in architecture from RV College of Architecture.
Marina Khoury
Marina Khoury is an expert in sustainable urban redevelopment, regional and master planning, transit-oriented developments, and form-based codes. Khoury has worked on the design and implementation of projects in the US, Canada, Australia, Europe and the Middle East including ground-breaking new codes around the world that mandate resilient urbanism. Marina serves on the Expert Committee of Global Forum on Human Settlements (UNEP-GFHS) International Green Model City (IGMC) Initiative, under the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Becky Nicolaides
Becky Nicolaides is a historian specializing in American cities, suburbs, and metro areas. She earned her doctorate in American history at Columbia University, then served on the faculties at Arizona State University West and UC San Diego.
She is the author of My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (Chicago 2002), The Suburb Reader (Routledge, 2006/2016), and The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945 (Oxford, January 2024).
Veronica Rivas Plaza
Veronica Rivas Plaza has a background in architecture, urban design, placemaking, and sustainability with over 8 years of experience. She currently works at Street Plans and is focused on the design, plan, and execution of multiple tactical urbanism projects. Some of these include the streetscape improvement plan for the Meatpacking District in New York City and the placemaking efforts to activate open spaces at Lincoln Heights and Richardson Dwellings Housing Projects in Washington, DC.
Galina Tachieva
Galina Tachieva is the managing partner of DPZ CoDESIGN, directing the work of the firm in the US and around the world. With more than 25 years of expertise in sustainable planning, urban redevelopment and form-based codes, she is the author of the “Sprawl Repair Manual”, an award-winning publication by Island Press, which focuses on the retrofit of auto-centric suburban places into complete walkable communities.
Emily Talen
Emily Talen is Professor of Urbanism at the University of Chicago, where she teaches urban design and directs the Urbanism Lab. She holds a PhD in urban geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a master’s in city planning from Ohio State. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Talen has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles and four books (New Urbanism and American Planning, Design for Diversity, Urban Design Reclaimed, and City Rules). Her forthcoming book is titled Neighborhood (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Registration for the weekend is available at seasideinstitute.org. If interested in sponsorship or member opportunities, contact us at admin@seasideinstitute.org.
