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Mara Mintzer is a听co-founder听and current program director听of (GUB), Boulder鈥檚 child- and youth-friendly city initiative, based out of the 精品SM在线影片鈥檚 Community Engagement Design and Research (CEDaR) Center.听 As the director of GUB, Mara helps integrate children and youth voices into Boulder鈥檚 city planning.听 She writes and presents internationally on the topic of engaging young people in planning, including in a 2017 TEDx talk entitled, 鈥淲e let kids design our city鈥攈ere鈥檚 what happened.鈥澨� Prior to GUB, Mara was the director of Belle Haven Community School in California, where she oversaw child and family support services for families on an underresourced school campus.听 She has designed and implemented a wide variety of programs for underrepresented children, families and neighborhoods in New York and California.听 Mara received a听bachelor's degree听in psychology from Brown University and a master's degree听听in organizational psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.听 She speaks Spanish and French and loves to travel and live abroad.

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Publications

Mintzer, M., and Chawla, L. (in press). Turning young people鈥檚 ideas into action: Learning from long-term partnerships for child and youth participation. In J. Loebach, S. Little, A. Cox & P. Eubanks Owens (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Designing Public Spaces for Young People. Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge.

Mintzer, M. (2019, February 9). These were the reasons behind the Wonderland Lake plans. Daily Camera. Retrieved from

City of Boulder. (2018, July 23). Inside Boulder News -听 Growing Up Boulder. Retrieved from

Derr, V., Chawla, L., & Mintzer, M. (2018). Placemaking with Children and Youth鈥�: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities. New York, NY: New Village Press.听Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association 2019 Achievement Award.

Mintzer, M., & Flanders Cushing, D. (2017). Engaging children and adolescents in local decision-making: Growing Up Boulder as a practical model. In K. Bishop & L. Corkery (Eds.), Designing Cities with Children and Young People鈥�: Beyond Playgrounds and Skate Parks. New York, NY: Routledge.

Mintzer, M. (2017, November 11). Mara Mintzer: How kids can help design cities . Retrieved from

Mintzer, M. (2017, July 28). Boulder youth had input on civic area project. Daily Camera. Retrieved from

University of Sheffield: Growing Up Boulder's听听project is featured on the听听website produced by the University of听Sheffield听in the UK;听.

Derr, V., Chawla, L., Mintzer, M., Cushing, D., & Van Vliet, W. (2013). A City for All Citizens: Integrating Children and Youth from Marginalized Populations into City Planning. Buildings, 3(3), 482鈥�505.

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