Ann Whitham

Ann
Whitham

  • Making communities greener, healthier, better designed places to live
  • Transportation and Community Planner
  • 27
  • Charlottesville, Virginia

Ann received a masters of Urban and Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia in 2007 and currently works for the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission in Charlottesville, Virginia. She has spent the past 6 years working for land conservation groups in Virginia and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, teaching place-based environmental education and generally trying to figure out how we can create healthy communities where people want to live because of ample open space access, economic opportunities, transit choices and affordable housing. Local food, sustianable economic development, transportation planning and land conservation are a few of her planning areas of interest and expertise.