Ana Gelabert-Sanchez
Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, AICP, principal of the planning and design consulting firm Gelabert-Sanchez and Associates, has over 25 years experience in the planning field.
As planning director for the city of Miami from 1998 to 2010 she led the Miami 21 rezoning initiative and adoption of a form-based zoning citywide code. Miami 21 won numerous awards, including the American Planning Association National Planning Excellence Award for Best Practice in 2011. Gelabert-Sanchez holds bachelor degrees in architecture and fine arts from RISD and a master’s in landscape architecture from Harvard. She was named Top Public Official of the year for 2010 by Governing magazine and received the CNU Groves Award on Leadership and Vision in 2011. She is a faculty advisor to the Daniel Rose Center for Public Leadership Fellowship and a design critic at the Harvard GSD.