Claes will give a kind of classification talk. He comes from a Rotary family. His father was a dedicated  Rotarian. Claes will survey key points in his life and professional career, discuss interesting people he has met, and describe surprising, rather exciting events along the way.

Marina Khoury is an expert in sustainable urban redevelopment, master planning, and form-based codes. A partner at DPZ CoDesign, she has led its Washington D.C. office since 2007. A licensed architect fluent in several languages, she has worked on projects worldwide, including pioneering resilient urbanism codes. Khoury co-led the development of the Miami21 code, the first form-based code in the U.S., and serves on the Expert Committee of the UNEP-GFHS International Green Model City Initiative. She is active in civic groups like the Congress for the New Urbanism and Smart Growth America’s Form-Based Code Institute, where she served as Chair.

Anna Tirat-Gefen is an immigrant from Ukraine, a full-time working mother of five children, a wife, and a rocket scientist. Anna also helps match students with host families for an international high school student exchange program.
Anna’s hobbies include catching up on sleep, taking walks, cooking, reading and writing.  Anna is also a published designer of crochet patterns, and yet unpublished poet. Another hobby gives Anna a big recognition. This hobby is the comedy.

Anna lives, works and performs at many Comedy Clubs in the Greater Washington DC area. One of very successful performance is Comedy as a Second Language.