SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
5:30 - 6:00 p.m.        Check-in
6:00 - 6:45 p.m.        2013 Distinguished Alumni Award Ceremony
6:45 - 7:30 p.m.        Talk by Robert Hammond
7:30 - 9:30 p.m.        Reception and Entertainment

2013 Distinguished Alumni Award
CED celebrates the accomplishments of its extraordinary alumni annually with the Distinguished Alumni Award. These alumni have garnered diverse achievements that profoundly impact a variety of disciplines. Recipients of the 2012 Distinguished Alumni Award include: William H. Fain, Jr., FAIA (B.A. Architecture, 1968), Partner and Director of Urban Design and Planning at Johnson Fain; Shelley R. Poticha (M.C.P., 1986), Director for the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and John L. Wong (B.A. Landscape Architecture, 1974), Managing Principal and Chairman of SWA Group.


Robert Hammond
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Friends of the High Line

Robert Hammond is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Friends of the High Line, the nonprofit conservancy that manages the High Line, a public park built atop an abandoned elevated rail line on the west side of Manhattan.

Robert co-founded Friends of the High Line with Joshua David in 1999. Together, they worked with the City of New York to save the High Line from demolition. Friends of the High Line has raised over $170 million in public and private funding and manages the park in partnership with New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation.

Before the High Line, Robert helped to start several businesses and consulted with nonprofit organizations. In 2010, Robert was awarded a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome as well as the Rockefeller Foundation's Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism. He is a self-taught artist and served as an ex-officio member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Board of Trustees. Robert graduated from Princeton University in 1993.