Pete is a proven leader in complex multidisciplinary organizations who can leverage over 37 years of executive experience to help organizations and individuals succeed in a changing environment. As Executive Director of Laurel Hill Cemetery, he led management and strategic direction of a combination of for-profit and non-profit historic cemeteries, funeral home, and historic landmark sites with 50 employees and reporting to 4 Boards of Directors. From 2007 - 2009 he was Senior Vice President, Financial Development for YMCA of Philadelphia where he was responsible for development of the first major capital campaign in recent years and for rebuilding the Annual Campaign with new full-time fundraising staff and new systems and procedures for the 10-branch system. Achieved the first multi-million capital grants of $3 million and $1 million for the new Ambler branch YMCA. Set records for Annual Campaign with $2 million. As CEO of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia from 1993 to 2006, Pete was responsible for leadership and strategic direction of all programs, services, operations, and fundraising of the Philadelphia Zoo, with over 200 full-time employees, 200 seasonal employees, 600 volunteers and a 30-member Board of Directors. The Zoo is one of the largest paid visitor attractions in the region with over 1.2 million visitors and a membership base of over 60,000 households and an annual operating budget of $25 million. Prior to the Zoo post, Pete was Commissioner for the Streets Department of the City of Philadelphia where he oversaw the Department’s Sanitation and Engineering Divisions, totaling over 2,800 employees with an Operating Budget of $186 million and Capital Budget of $83 million. Lastly, as Executive Director of the Fairmount Park Commission of Philadelphia from 1980-88 Pete was responsible for policy, programs, planning, design, and maintenance for Philadelphia’s 8700-acre park system and street trees. The Operating Budget for 1988 was $12 million with over 400 employees and a Capital Budget of $4 million. Pete holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from San Jose University and a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Minnesota.

David worked in public television and radio for over thirty years, at WNET in New York, at WHYY in Philadelphia, and since 2000 as an independent consultant, specializing in strategic planning, and helping stations adapt to rapidly changing technical and economic environments. Throughout his career he has found ways to make public media more relevant and accessible to viewers and listeners through innovative production, broadcasting, fundraising and planning techniques. Since leaving WHYY in late 2000, he has consulted with foundations and public broadcasting entities, and non-profits in the Philadelphia area. His focus has been on strategic and business planning. His broadcasting clients have included the Ford Foundation, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Public Radio International (PRI), Marketplace Productions, and nearly two dozen stations across the country. In 2002-3 he served as CPB’s Interim Vice President for System and Station Development. In the Philadelphia region, through Compass (Compassphilly.org) and the Arts and Business Council, he has worked with PAFA, La Comunidad Hispana, Commonwealth Youth Choirs, and the Upper Darby Arts and Education Foundation, for which he was awarded the Arts and Business Council’s Volunteer of the Year Award in 2014. He is on the Harvard Business School Club of Philadelphia team that choses local non-profit CEOs to go to the School’s Strategic Perspectives on Non-Profit Management sessions each year.

Aaron is currently an Associate Professor of Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently teaches three core courses in Penn's Preservation Program: Documentation (HSPV 600), Site Analysis (HSPV 601), and American Architecture (HSPV 521). His seminars, generally taught in the spring, have focused on broad aspects of the American cultural landscape, from commercial architecture, to cemeteries and suburbs, to cartography and the idea of landscape itself. His publications and papers have addressed such diverse topics as the 'rural' cemetery movement in Philadelphia, the formation of Charlottesville, Virginia's park system, and the architecture of early electric utilities. He has taught at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture and received long-term fellowships from the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Winterthur Museum. Wunsch is also an active preservationist. He has served as vice president of Virginia's Preservation Piedmont, written numerous reports for the Historic American Buildings Survey, and been employed by that agency, the Cambridge [Mass.] Historical Commission, and the Massachusetts Historical Commission. His efforts on behalf of Charlottesville's James D. Nimmo House were recognized in Preservation Virginia's Outstanding Domestic Project Award for 2008.

Ross is the Executive Director of Glen Foerd on the Delaware, an historic site in Philadelphia featuring and 18-acre arboretum, 1850 Italianate mansion, extensive collections of art and artifacts, and robust public outreach that runs the gamut from artists-in-residency programs, to kayaking and environmental programs, to children’s programs. He is the former Director of Barnes-de Mazia Education and Outreach Programs at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia as well as former Gallery Director for the Barnes when they were in Merion Station. For eight years he was the Executive Director of the Violette de Mazia Foundation whose mission was to teach aesthetics and art appreciation. Mr. Mitchell started his career as a painter and studied at the Barnes Foundation with Violette de Mazia. He has also worked as Executive Director of Historic Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia where he repositioned the cemetery as a heritage tourism destination and Senior Associate for VIART Corporation, a Manhattan based art-consulting firm. He serves on the Program Committee of the Barnes Foundation and is a board member of the Lower Merion Historical Society. His past volunteer service includes serving as President of the Philadelphia Sketch Club and Commissioner on the Lower Merion Historical Commission.

Yvonne has substantial and varied experience as a lawyer, financial underwriter, real estate developer and rental property manager, public administrator, community/economic development planner, and community-based organization director. Her current focus is real estate law, mixed use commercial/residential development and economic development projects. Haskins initiated and represented the Germantown community as the lawyer handling a major zoning challenge in Philadelphia that, among other things, exposed corruption involving “spot zoning” as an illegal practice to avoid obtaining variances for development. From that experience, she initiated a process that resulted in the creation of Germantown United Community Development Corporation, whose mission is to revitalize and bring improvements to the commercial corridors in the Germantown community. She also initiated visioning and strategic planning to develop supportive housing and post release services for reuniting female criminal offenders with their children in foster care.

Ms. Haskins’ expertise in financial packaging is derived from her employment experience with Fannie Mae where she completed sourcing, underwriting and closings on investments in affordable housing and mixed use neighborhood development and new construction over a multi-state area. As a Senior Manager and Underwriter, in years 2001-2007, Ms. Haskins successfully invested over $300 million, with major investments in the Harlem and Brooklyn areas of New York City, urban areas of New Jersey and upstate New York (e.g., cities of Buffalo, Syracuse). Haskins led the nation and received awards in developing investments as equity and in partnership with major banks on construction loan participation. Her investments proved to be sound with construction being on time and within budget, culminating in full occupancy before completion.

Prior to this assignment, in 1998, Ms. Haskins was appointed Project Manager of Fannie Mae’s Neighborhood Project Initiative in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania, working directly with President Judith Rodin on a community rebuilding project that invested over $5 million in the University City neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA. The Project generated a comprehensive revitalization outcome for that community, including the development of a top-rated neighborhood public school, affordable rental housing, reduction of crime rates by more than 50%, clean streets, and a revitalized commercial corridor.

As an attorney, Ms. Haskins practiced in one of Philadelphia’s largest law firms (Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll), specializing in corporate, commercial and complex real estate matters, including municipal finance; acquisitions/leasing; zoning and land use; business formation; neighborhood development planning; economic development, and creative financial packaging. Ms. Haskins is especially talented and skilled in matters involving community revitalization, including the assemblage of land, site control/development review, landlord/tenant matters and zoning/land use concerns. Her representation of major banks in connection with construction loans involved many complex and large-scale developments in the Philadelphia Metropolitan area (e.g., shopping centers; power centers; housing construction and office towers). Ms. Haskins is married and resides in Philadelphia, PA.

Tom is currently Senior Advisor, Philadelphia Office, for US Advisors. Tom brings over 35 years of experience in revitalizing America’s cities, playing roles ranging from local non-profit community development to private, at-risk real estate development.

Drawing on this experience, U3A relies on Tom to provide leadership of and support for all aspects of planning, development and stewardship of complex urban development initiatives. A passionate student of American urban geography and history since his childhood, he feels fortunate to be working in a time of ascendancy of prospects for America’s cities. The grey decades of decline seem to be over and U3A is playing a central role in maintaining upward momentum.

He began his career In New York City in the late 1980s where he helped in the redevelopment of Carnegie Hall and its real estate holdings as well as in housing for the City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Later, in New Jersey in the 1990s, he was a founding member of the team that created Newark’s NJ Performing Arts Center, which today is among the nation’s most diverse and successful cultural centers. Tom also played a central role in development and execution of the University of Pennsylvania’s path-breaking anchor development, where he led its real estate and community development efforts. Starting the mid 2000, he led his own advisory practice as well as completed over $50 million in housing, hotel and other real estate projects for his own account. In 2012, he merged his advisory private with U3. He is also President of U3 Ventures, a private real estate development company that focuses of neighborhood development in West Philadelphia. Tom holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota and a master’s degree from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. He lives in West Philadelphia and is active in numerous local arts and civic initiatives. Most importantly, he is the lucky father of two, grown children, Max and Beth.