Steven Bingler is the founder and President of Concordia, a planning and architectural design firm based in New Orleans and Pasadena. Steven has undertaken projects focused principally on the planning and design of environments for living and learning. He served as a special consultant to the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education for policy related to the design of schools as centers of the community. Steven is the author of Schools As Centers of Community: A Citizen’s Guide for Planning and Design, and Concordia was a partner in the research and publication of Dollars and Sense: The Cost Effectiveness of Small Schools. His “Nexus” concept has been applied to rebuilding New Orleans’s public schools as hubs for community revival.