Sandra Lee Pinel, AICP and Ph.D.
Curriculum Vita
Research and Teaching Interests
Local and regional land use planning, indigenous and community culture in planning theory and methods; cultural landscapes, multi-jurisdictional governance; limits to participatory and collaborative planning; conflict management; community economic development; epistemologies in planning cultural resource management; ethnographic research methods, social impact and contextualized case study research.
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Academic Training
2007 Ph.D. Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Minor in Anthropology and in Latin American Studies. Dissertation title: Co-management of Cultural Landscapes: Collaborating to Compete at Mt. Pulag National Park, the Philippines. Case study of boundary conflicts sustained by overlapping indigenous rights, decentralization, and co-management laws with comparative international analysis regarding indigenous rights and protection areas management in order to untangle World Heritage site and co-management assumptions and deepen collaborative spatial planning theory.
1979 MS Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
MS thesis, Tradition as innovation in Rural Development Planning, integrated social network analysis into planning methodology to critique three cases.
1974 BA Anthropology, Cum Laude, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
2000 and 2001 Institute for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Hamline University, St. Paul, MN.
American Institute of Certified Planners, AICP 1993 to present
Professional Continuing Education: Section 106 Historic Preservation Act; Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Wisconsin, 2 credits on Technology and Assessments for Teaching and Learning, plus program workshops. American Institute of Certified Planners courses at national conferences and continuing education and post-graduate courses through, Metropolitan Council, University of New Mexico and State of New Mexico in project management, fund accounting, computer programs, strategic planning, conflict resolution, and financial analysis.
Languages: Spanish and intermediate Quichua (Ecuadorian Quechua) and Filipino (Tagalog)
Positions Held
2007 to present. Assistant Professor of Sustainable Community Design and Bioregional Planning, University of Idaho, Moscow: Teaching, outreach, research, and curriculum design for a new multi-disciplinary and inter-college initiative funded by the University president to demonstrate learning and applied research through community engagement with Idaho communities facing growth pressures and changing amenity-based and tourist economies.
2005, Guest Faculty, School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Philippines, Diliman.
2004, Lecturer - Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1996 to 2002, Senior Planner, Sector Representative and River Team Co-lead - Metropolitan Council, St. Paul, Minnesota: One of four senior staff responsible for the planning assistance and compliance review process and negotiation with 190 local governments in this 3500-employee regional planning and operating agency. Staff to Council’s rural land use policy committee and lead staff to the inter-departmental river team, responsible for implementing the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area Comprehensive Management Plan with cities and townships, and state agencies.
1992 to 1996, Executive Management Analyst - New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration, Local Government Division, Santa Fe, NM: Responsible to the director for strategic planning, the development and management of the inter-agency infrastructure financing and housing finance groups of state, federal and regional agencies and reviewed legislation. Developed programs to build local planning and implementation capacity and obtained Ford Foundation grant for joint project with regional councils. Drafted strategic plan for department, co-staffed good governance task force, and coordinated department assistance to the New Mexico Association of Regional Councils and the state’s Rural Development Council.
1994-1996 Detail in Washington, D.C. U.S. Detail from October 1994 to March 1996 as Policy Analyst to the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Washington D.C. and Strategy Manager – for the Streamlined Planning Initiative, National Rural Development Partnership Office, USDA.
1991 Planner and Communications Officer - New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs, Santa Fe, NM. Responsible for writing complex policy analysis on tribal sovereignty and state relations for state agencies and the Legislature. Produced three journals on these issues.
1982 to 1986 Director of Social and Economic Development - Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos, Bernalillo, NM. Planning and development director, strategic planning with inter-tribal planning committee and supervision of six local staff. Obtained and managed an annual budget of $250,000 in state and federal funds, and managed consultant contracts. For the five member tribes, provided planning and economic development assistance, business training, agricultural marketing, credit union financing and training for tribal planning staff, now serving as tribal administrators.
1986-1990 Self- Employed Planner - Cochiti Lake, NM.
§ Comprehensive and strategic plans for Nambe and Sandia Pueblos and Southern Paiute tribe, and the Tohono O’odham tribe and Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico.
§ Institute of Cultural Affairs.
§ Seventh Generation Fund.
§ New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs: Produce The Source, a policy publication and analyze state policy for impact on 22 tribes.
Honors and Awards
Gill-Chin Lim Award for Student Travel to the ACSP Conference 2006.
Research Affiliate and Lecturer. 2005-2006, University of the Philippines.
UP, Diliman School of Urban and Regional Planning and National Center for Local and Regional Governance, College of Public Administration, and Cordillera Studies Center, UP Baguio, Philippines.
David L. Boren Fellow, National Security Education Program. 2002-2005.
Title: Devolution of Government Planning and Indigenous Participation in the Philippines. Tagalog language study and dissertation research.
Foreign Language Area Studies, (FLAS) U.S. Department of Education through the Center for Southeast Asian Studies for Tagalog (2003-2004) and Center for Latin American, Iberian, and Caribbean Studies (LACIS) for Quechua (2002-2003, 2004), UW Madison.
Tinker-Native Grant through LACIS. 2004-2005. Title: Indigenous Participation in Protected Area Plans – Process or Institutions? For five weeks of field work in Peru and Ecuador to examine decentralized approaches to protected area management and indigenous participation.
Sachar International Institute, Brandeis University 1973. Folk Medicine in Peru, undergraduate field work in Peru.
Professional Affiliations
§ American Institute of Certified Planners.
§ American Planning Association.
§ Society for Applied Anthropology.
§ Brandeis University Alumni Admissions Council since.
Personal Interests
Publications
- Pinel, Sandra Lee. 2007. Culture and Cash – How Two New Mexico Indian Pueblos Combined Culture and Development. Alternatives: Local, Global, Political. January-March 2007 issue.
- ___. 2007. Planning Partnerships for Indigenous Cultural Landscapes – Conditions for Conflict or Cooperation at Mt. Pulag, the Philippines. International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability. Online Issue III.
- ___. Collaborating to Compete at Mt. Pulag National Park, the Philippines. Planning Theory and Practice (accepted with revisions January 2008).
- ___. The Contrast Between National Park Service and UNESCO Cultural Landscape Concepts: Issues of Application (Submitted for review to CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship, February 2008.
- ___. Mediating Land Uses for an American Heritage River: The Implementation of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area Plan with the Metropolitan Council (Submitted for review to the Journal of the American Planning Association, March 2008).
- Pinel, Sandra and Michael Evans. Fuzzy concepts and Strict Interpretations: Institutional challenges for U.S. Co-management of Cultural Landscapes. Presented at 2008 ISSRM International Meetings, Burlington VT for submission to Society and Natural Resources.
- Pinel, Sandra and Michael Evans. 1994. Tribal Sovereignty and the Control of Knowledge. In Tom Greaves (ed.) Intellectual Property Rights, a Sourcebook. Oklahoma City: Society for Applied Anthropology.
- ___. 1994. Social Impact Assessment Sensitizes Planning. In Frank So, (ed.) Planning and Community Equity. Chicago: American Planning Association.
- ___. 1988. Stopping the Flood of Damages from Cochiti Dam. Cultural Survival Quarterly. 12(2): 25-28.
Non-refereed
- Pinel, Sandra. 1998. Mississippi National River and Recreation Area – a regional responsibility. Council Directions: St. Paul, MN: Metropolitan Council.
- ___. 1991. A Community Planning Approach to Resource Protection and Development. The Western Planner special issue on Cultural Diversity. 13(3): 15-18.
- ___. 1990. Zia Pueblo’s Man of Many Hats. New Mexico Magazine. March 1990: 56-62, Santa Fe.
- 1987: Tribal Filipinos: Grasping Democratic Space Under Aquino. Daybreak. Quezon City, Philippines, and 1987, “A Democratic Space”. Alternative. 1(2): 39-43, Quezon City, Philippines
- see professional reports and studies
Presented Before Professional Meetings
Roundtable Organizer and co-chair, Co-management Between U.S. Federal Land Management Agencies and Indian Tribes? Does the concept fit? International Association for Society and Natural Resources Annual Conference, June 2008, Burlington, VT.
Local Redevelopment in the Twin Cities Mississippi National River: Regional Planning as Intergovernmental Mediation. Presented to ACSP 2007 Annual meeting Regional Planning Track, Milwaukee, WI.
Partnership Planning for Indigenous Cultural Landscapes. Presented at ISSRN Annual Meeting, June 2007, Vancouver, B.C. and 2007 ACSP Conference, Fort Worth Texas.
Philippine Rice Terraces World Heritage Area Cultural Landscape: Culture, Conservation and Contradictions. Presented at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute Student Conference, July 2003, Madison, Wisconsin.
Twin Cities Regional Growth Management. Presented to the American Planning Association National Planning Conference, Partnerships in Regional Planning session, April 13-17, 2002, Chicago.
The Twin Cities Metropolitan Council – the Challenges of Implementing Smart Growth”, presented at the Urban and Regional Planning in the 21st Century, session Smart Growth: State Approaches session, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Department of Urban and Regional Planning, September 28-29, 2001, Madison, WI.
Appropriate Development Planning: Lessons Learned with Two Pueblos, presented with Peter Pino, Pueblo of Zia at Who Owns America? III: Minority Land and Community Security. Land Tenure Center, University of Wisconsin, June 6-9, 2001, Madison, Wisconsin.
Fiscal Costs of Growth From Rural Agricultural to Suburban Environments, session of three speakers from Metropolitan Council, University of Minnesota Design Center and Scott County, MN, organized for and chaired at the Joint International Summit on Rural and Community Development, July 22-25, Duluth, MN.
River Corridor Planning, Making the Connections. Presented to the 25th Annual Minnesota State Planning Conference with Susan Overson, NPS, Lynn Moratzska, Dakota County, and Carolyn Braun, City of Anoka, September 25, 1997, Rochester, MN.
Mississippi National River and Recreation Area – Local Plans and National Policy. Presented to Citizens for a Better Environment with Mike Maddell, National Park Service, Minneapolis, MN. Other presentations to Friends of the Mississippi quarterly meetings 1997-2000.
Streamlined Planning Initiative of the National Rural Development Partnership. Presented at the American Planning Association National Conference, April 1996, Orlando, Florida.
Streamlined Planning, Rural Development and Smart Growth sessions at National Rural Development Conference, 1996 and 1995, Gainsville, FL and Washington D.C.
Planning Initiatives in Process at the Local Government Division of DFA, New Mexico. Presented at the Southwest Land Use Institute, June 2, 1994, Albuquerque, NM.
Putting Community First: Assessing the Impact of Government Programs on Rural Communities. Presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, March 10-14, 1993, San Antonio, TX.
Planning with Cultural Diversity. Presented to and panel chaired for the American Planning Association Annual Meeting, April 1993, Chicago.
Tribal Sovereignty and the Control of Knowledge. Presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Intellectual Property Rights invited session, December 6, 1992, San Francisco, with second author Michael J. Evans.
Tribal Planning and Culturally Appropriate Planning. Six sessions organized and chaired at the American Planning Association Southwest Regional and National Leadership Meeting, September 1992, Santa Fe, NM.
Anthropological Methods for Regional Planners. A workshop co-conducted with Jeffrey Schlotter, for the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, March 1992, Memphis, TN.
A Community Planning Approach to Resource Protection and Development. Presented to the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, March 25-29, 1992, Memphis, TN; paper first presented to Natural Resource Development on Indian Lands, Planning for Success, American Bar Association Section of Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Committee on Native American Natural Resource Law and Indian Law Section, State Bar of New Mexico, February 21-22, Albuquerque, NM. Assisted by Richard Pecos, Pueblo de Cochiti and Peter Pino, Zia Pueblo.
Culturally Appropriate Planning Methods. A session chaired and presented at the Western Planner annual conference, July 1991, Lincoln, NB. Paper published in Western Planner 1991.
Heart and Head in Native Planning Partnerships: An Empowerment Strategy. Paper presented and organized panel of Pueblo Indian speakers presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting, April 8, 1989, Santa Fe, NM.
Research Reports
2004. The Historic and Cultural Landscape of Trempealeau Village, Wisconsin. Paper submitted to LA 677 Historic and Cultural Landscapes, Ho Chunk Nation, Village of Trempealeau, Wisconsin State Office of Historic Preservation, and Trempealeau County Board.
1993. Ethnographic Assessment for the Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico. Prepared by Michael J. Evans and Sandra Pinel for the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology under contract with the National Park Service.
1985. Ethnographic appraisal/evaluation of the Five Sandoval Indian Pueblos Blue Corn cooperative development project and farmer decision-making concerning participation and marketing. Supervised by the University of New Mexico Department of Anthropology.
1980. Archaeological impact assessment research assistant to New Mexico State University for EIS for underground cable and phone lines in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico.
Professional Reports
2000. Participatory and Strategic Planning Training for the New Paradigm Rural Development and Education Partners. Turtle Lake, Wisconsin on contract with the Heartland Center for Leadership Development W.K. Kellogg Foundation program.
1995. USDA National Rural Development Partnerships, Washington D.C., Streamlined Planning Initiative Work Group reports and white papers.
§ Streamline federal planning mandates – white paper and six facilitated national meetings
§ Federal mandates working group with Advisory Council on Intergovernmental Relations comments on SB 88, The Local Empowerment and Flexibility Act of 1995.
§ Comments to American Planning Association Smart Growth Initiative
Facilitated team meetings at the National Rural Development Conferences and developed work plans with several issue groups comprised of members from 30 state councils.
1991 - Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico. Comprehensive Land Use Plan.
1988-1990 - Institute for Cultural Affairs West, Phoenix AZ (14 mos. 50%). Funding proposals and five reports of the Native American Leadership Program for Hopi, Navajo, Southern Paiute, Saginaw Chippewa, and Zia Pueblo Indian tribes, Council of Energy Resource Tribes and organizations.
1987-1988 – Ford Foundation Funding Proposal for the Seventh Generation Fund, Senior Program Officer for economic development and cultural preservation.
1988. San Xavier District, Tohono O’odham Nation, Sells AZ. Participatory mapping and land use plan for 15,000-acre O’odham in Mexico Program. San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe proposal for community development to DHHS, ANA.
1987, 1991. New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs. The Source State-Tribal Relations: Charting a New Course. Author and producer of two special issues and 1992 Annual Report to the Legislature.
1986. Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico. Develop and land use plan.
Other Staff Reports
1996 - Proposal for Department of Infrastructure and Transportation Community Development Division, submitted to the Department of Finance and Administration (DFA), State of NM.
1995 - Assistant to the publication, MPO Capacity; Improving the Capacity of Metropolitan Planning Organizations to Help Implement National Transportation Policies. Washington D.C.: US Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Report No. 130.
1994 - State of New Mexico to the Ford Foundation Rural Poverty and Resources Program proposal, $130,000 funded for comprehensive planning with regional councils of government, DFA, Local Government Division (LGD), NM.
1994 - New Mexico Governor’s Task Force on Government Efficiency Report, January 7, 1994. Second staff coordinator and author with Janet Peacock, DFA, NM.
1993 - Local Assistance Handbook, Governor Bruce King and DFA, DFA-LGD, NM. 128 grant and funding programs summarized for local reference.
1993 - New Mexico Infrastructure Coordination Group Report and Recommendations, New Mexico DFA, LGD. Based on a study of other state good government initiatives.
1992 - New Mexico Housing Coordination Group Report and Legislative Recommendations, DFA, LGD.