Jacinda is all about people, places and connections and specialize in managing projects that result in strong, effective public/private partnerships. Combining years of experience working at the local, state and federal governmental levels with experience helping to launch a successful tech start-up, she bridge gaps and facilitate working relationships resulting in positive productive outcomes for all.
Jonathan Ford is a New Urbanist civil engineer and urban designer, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in six states. Mr. Ford’s planning and design approach is based on the principles of the Charter of the New Urbanism — compact, walkable neighborhood design creates vibrant, lovable places in balance with nature. Dedication to traditional neighborhood design and a devotion to interdisciplinary collaboration led Mr. Ford to found Morris Beacon Design in 2006, where he served as a New Urbanist civil engineering and planning resource until joining the Horsley Witten Group.
Mr. Ford is a Knight Fellow in Community Building at the University of Miami’s School of Architecture, co-founder and past President of CNU New England, and on the faculty of the Form Based Codes Institute. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Ecological Landscape Alliance and Blackstone Parks Conservancy.
Mr. Ford’s projects have won numerous local and national planning and design awards, including a CNU Charter Award Honorable Mention, the CNU New England Award of Excellence, the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence Silver Medal, and Boston Society of Landscape Architects Honor Award.
Ken Livingston is an urban planner focusing on providing mobility options to create more livable communities. He is a Principal at FHI Studio a planning and design firm. He has worked on projects throughout the Northeast with a focus on bicycle and pedestrian planning. Ken’s recent projects include Connecticut’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan and the Norwalk (CT) Pedestrian and Bikeway Plan. Additionally, Ken brings a strong understanding of community connectivity planning including pedestrian wayfinding, analysis of parking demand, zoning regulations for parking and form-based code zoning.
Ken has also served as Treasurer to Bike Walk Connecticut and serves on the Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee for the Town of West Hartford, CT. He is an avid runner and bicyclist and recently completed his first 50-mile trail ultramarathon.
Matthew Lawlor is an attorney with Robinson & Cole in the firm's Boston office and a member of the Real Estate Practice Group, where he focuses his practice on representing lenders, municipal authorities and agencies, developers, nonprofits, municipalities, and commercial landlords and tenants in matters involving affordable housing, transit-oriented and mixed-use development, commercial real estate development and leasing, and land use and planning law. His experience includes obtaining permits and land use entitlements for developers of large-scale, mixed-use projects, as well as drafting new land use regulatory provisions, including form-based codes, for municipalities. Mr. Lawlor regularly advises a national real estate organization on land use initiatives and trends across the country and serves as a faculty member at continuing education seminars. He frequently presents at planning and real estate industry conferences on the related topics of land use regulation, New Urbanism, and smart growth.
Mr. Lawlor works extensively with the firm's representation of the Congress for the New Urbanism New England Chapter as the organization's pro-bono counsel. Before attending law school, he worked for Comsis Corporation in Silver Spring, Maryland, as a consulting transportation planner for local and state governments. Mr. Lawlor achieved CNU-Accredited status in 2009 from the Congress for the New Urbanism.
Will McCollum, R.A. is an architect and urbanist dedicated to creating walkable, prosperous, and enduring communities. For over a decade, WIll worked alongside renowned urbanist Lew Oliver to shape meaningful communities across the United States. As a project manager at LOI, Will bridged the design and development teams of notable projects like Trilith, a mixed-use development south of Atlanta, and Burton, a pedestrian-focused residential town in the Appalachian foothills. His leadership with Trilith helped the project earn many prestigious awards, including a CNU Charter Award and multiple NAHB “Best in American Living” Awards.
In 2023, Will founded Citymakers Collective, an educational nonprofit based in Cambridge, MA, that equips the next generation of designers and developers to build more human-centric places. His work bridges design and development, integrating lessons from history and tradition with the practical realities of today’s market. Will is committed to shaping places that inspire connection, foster civic pride, and carry forward the best of our shared heritage into the future.