Sheldon Sturges, Co-founder and Administrator
Sheldon Sturges has lived in Princeton since the late 1960s and has raised three children here. He is a graduate of Harvard University, a teacher, a publisher and entrepreneur. He served on the management committee of Scholastic. His company, Sturges Publishing, holds patents that help people learn on the cellphone using chatbot technology.
He is a founder of Princeton Future, and has served on the vestry of Trinity Wall Street, as an officer of the Crisis Ministry, Habitat for Humanity of Trenton, and the Princeton Community Democratic Party. He hopes to work to find ways to keep Princeton affordable for all.
Sturges is committed to bringing forward ideas and to listening to each and every citizen of the town. He believes in participatory democracy aiming towards beauty, inclusion, and sustainability.
Evan Anderson
Evan Anderson specializes in environmental, occupational, and public health, with an interest in the influence of community and the built environment as social determinants of health. Evan is a certified industrial hygienist and registered environmental health specialist with a master’s degree in public health.
Emma Brigaud
Emma Brigaud, an artist and designer, is a recent graduate of the College of William & Mary with both a Bachelor of Art in French and Francophone Studies and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing. She has created several installations for Dohm Alley and served on the Steering Committee for the 2023 Princeton Community Master Plan.
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly is a senior lecturer in sociology at Princeton University. Her work at Princeton focuses on international development with an emphasis on immigration, race, ethnicity, and gender. She volunteers with the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the YWCA Princeton. Fernandez-Kelly spent a decade conducting field research with impoverished families in inner-city Baltimore in the 1990s. In “The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State”, she weaves together vivid biographical accounts of residents with an analysis of how they interact with government agencies.
Katherine Kish
Katherine Kish is Executive Director of Einstein’s Alley, an economic development initiative promoting the entrepreneurial ecosystem of NJ which makes New Jersey the destination for technology based business. She is also a strategic marketing and business development consultant, working in the business and non-profit worlds specializing in launching or repositioning products, services, and enterprises.
Kish is a fellow of Lead NJ, was named to the NJ Biz Top 50 Business Women in New Jersey and was honored as Woman of Distinction by the Girl Scouts and Humanitarian of the Year by a chapter of the American Conference on Diversity. She is active in and serves on boards of many civic and philanthropic organizations.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Allegheny College and a master’s degree from Antioch University, with additional graduate work at Williams College and the East West Center at the University of Hawaii.
Anton C. (Tony) Nelessen
Tony Nelessen, Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning, Design, and Visioning Rutgers University, holds a master of architecture degree in Urban Design. He is a professional planner and charter member of the Congress for the New Urbanism. In 2022 he won the Award for Academic Leadership from the Urban Land Institute. He is now a private consultant.
Richard K. Rein
Richard K. Rein, a reporter, writer, and editor, is the author of American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life, which the New York Times praised as “marvelous new biography.” The founding editor and publisher of U.S. 1 newspaper, Rein now edits TAPinto Princeton Community News, a daily digital news provider with an emphasis on covering urban solutions in a suburban setting.
Carlos Rodrigues
Carlos Rodrigues, principal, Design Solutions for a Crowded Planet LLC, is a Princeton-based urban designer, professional planner, writer, and educator. His planning practice represents, or has represented, federal, state, county and local government, the Territory of Macao (now part of China), foundations and other charitable organizations, real estate developers, property owners, religious congregations, neighborhood groups, environmental groups, and civic organizations involved in (re)development and preservation projects of merit.
He is an architect (Dipl. Arch. 1978) and a planner (MCRP Rutgers, 1982) and has taught graduate and undergraduate planning courses and studios at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, in the Landscape Architecture Department at Rutgers and in the Graduate Planning School at Columbia University.
Marina Rubina
Marina Rubina is a registered architect in New Jersey and California and is a LEED accredited professional. She holds master’s degrees in both Architecture and Structural Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Marina is a founding member of the Princeton Progressive Action Group.
Kevin Wilkes