Brenda Wisneski currently serves as the Deputy Community Development Director for the City of Newport Beach, leading the Planning Division. She has over 20 years of professional planning experience. She spent the first nine years of her career in the private sector working for an environmental engineering firm and The Planning Center. Her focus was on air quality analysis and policy development, as well as creating Specific/General Plans and CEQA compliance. She was then led to the coastal cities of Dana Point and San Clemente. Here, she toned her public sector skills which highlighted the need for effective public outreach while developing the Dana Point Town Center Plan and managing the Dana Point and San Clemente General Plan updates. Brenda’s interest is to dispel the “mystery” of local government by making the City of Newport Beach more accessible and transparent through the use of technology, as well as basic quality customer service.

Nate Farnsworth received his Bachelor’s Degree in Planning and Resource Management at Brigham Young University in 2002. He also received his Master’s Degree in Public Administration from BYU in 2004. Nate has previously worked in various planning positions at the cities of Westminster, Costa Mesa and Springville, Utah. He currently works as the Senior Planner for the City of Rancho Santa Margarita, where he is primarily responsible for managing Advanced Planning, GIS and Code Enforcement. Nate also currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Orange County Council of Government’s Technical Advisory Committee.