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Nora Beck joined the staff of CNU in December 2005 to lend executive support to John Norquist and assistance to CNU’s planning, policy, and design initiatives. While completing her graduate degree in urban planning at the University of Michigan (MUP, 2005), she focused on environmental planning techniques and developed a brownfield redevelopment strategy for Flint, Michigan. Nora received her BS in Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. Between her undergraduate and graduate studies, she followed her growing interest in the relationship between urbanism and environmental science and moved to Portland, Oregon, to observe and experience the region’s planning policies first hand. Serving as a watershed stewardship coordinator for the City of Portland through the Americorps program, she developed an interest in urban water resource management that she explored in planning school and continues to pursue. After hours, she is an avid reader, knitter, and urban explorer.