Members

John Bennett (Director of Student Media)

Bennett has served as director of student media at SCAD since 2000 and originally joined the college in 1993. He holds a master of science degree in higher education student affairs from Florida State University and a master of arts degree in historic preservation from SCAD. Bennett was recently accepted into the public administration doctoral program at Valdosta State University. He serves on the citizens advisory committee of the Chatham Urban Transportation Study, is a cofounder of the Savannah Bicycle Campaign and is acting chair of Pedestrian Advocates of the Coastal Empire. Bennett is also involved with the Coastal Georgia Greenway, the Savannah Development and Renewal Authority’s Mobility Taskforce and Preserving Savannah Neighborhoods.

Scott Boylston (GRDS)
Deborah Brooks (INDS)
Robert Fee (DMGT)
Peter Fossick (IDUS)
Daniel Levine (staff-chair)
Christine Miller (DMGT)
LaRaine Montgomery (ARCH)

LaRaine Papa Montgomery (ARCH)
LaRaine Papa Montgomery earned her M. Architecture Degree from the College of Design at North Carolina State University in 1989, along with a minor in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During her graduate years, she studied with Professor Rob Krier at the Technische Universitat in Vienna, Austria, focusing on Urban Design and Development.

She has taught at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at the Savannah College of Art and Design Architecture Department since 1995. She has been LEED accredited since 2005, and has served as a founding member of the Savannah Chapter of the USGBC, serving as Secretary for a two-year term, and now serving on the Advisory Board. She has offered public workshops in the summer at the Chatham County Library system, teaching children of all ages how to recycle, how to make paper, how to create pinwheels out of aluminum cans, and other events designed to educate on sustainable lifestyles. Since 2005, she has led her architecture design studios on community outreach programs in the Gulf Coast community of Pass Christian, Mississippi, where the students have both designed and built structures for families devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Prior to teaching, she worked in architecture firms both in the States and abroad. As a member of the international design team for Suter + Suter, an international architecture and planning firm, she traveled and lived in European cities while working on commercial projects.

Her interests include interdisciplinary design opportunities; sustainable design projects of all scales; the challenges of the 21st century resulting from the end of oil; and community service to people in need.

Verena Paepcke (IDUS, chair)
Pamela Wiley (FIBR)
Jeann Lambin (HIPR)
Todd Luger (e-Learning)
Erika Huebner (Communications Manager Physical Resources and Design Group)