Senior Policy Advisor for Livable Communities and his lead staff person for transportation issues. She also worked for two years as a high school teacher at the International School of Minnesota. Joint Development in the Next Century. Katya Ricketts, Payne Avenue Mainstreet Katya Ricketts is a graduate of the Humphrey Planning program and directs the Payne Avenue Mainstreet program that invigorates the commercial street through physical improvements, marketing, and redevelopment. Johnson has parlayed his Humphrey planning education into work for a Minneapolis developer, the Lander Group, a firm that prides itself on being no ordinary vanilla-flavored developer.
Residential projects get their value because they re set in a great neighborhood.
The intent is to give some of that back, too. Those contacts were invaluable, he says. Every job I ve had was directly or indirectly because of contacts I made at the Humphrey. The other great thing is the other students, says Johnson. It s such a frighteningly talented group of people.