January 22, 2026
12:00PM - 1:30PM CST

APA Emerging Planners Network Webinar: From Classroom to Career: Navigating Planning Internships

Ready to turn planning studies into real-world experience? Join a panel of speakers organization through APA national on maximizing your internship journey. Hear from a planner who hires interns, a graduate who turned an internship into a job, and an academic who connects students to opportunities—plus tips on standing out, networking, and launching your planning career.

This webinar is FREE!

Date: January 22, 2026

Time: 12:00 - 1:30 CST

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Panelists

Niru Gaire is a Transportation Planner at NV5, where her work primarily focuses on developing and supporting master transportation plans, along with transportation studies supporting the NEPA process, traffic impact assessments, freight analysis, and transportation network analysis, using GIS and data-driven approaches. Before transitioning into planning, she worked for over two years as a licensed architect, which gave her a strong foundation in land use, urban form, and how design decisions shape mobility. She holds a Master's degree in Community and Regional Planning from Iowa State University, along with a graduate certificate in Geographic Information Systems. She brings together design thinking and technical analysis to help shape transportation systems that are sustainable, equitable, and meaningfully serve communities.

Mitch Glass is a lecturer in the Departments of Landscape Architecture and City and Regional Planning at Cornell. He teaches graduate and undergraduate studios and workshops that focus on the regeneration of urban neighborhoods in Rust Belt cities through community-based planning, green infrastructure strategies, and neighborhood visioning. Mitch is Director of the tRUST-lab, a research and action-oriented platform at Cornell that assists governmental agencies in Cleveland, OH, with brownfield revitalization. Mitch has also been the program coordinator for the Keithley Fellowship program since 2020, placing over 50 Cornell students in the City of Cleveland and non-profit organizations focused on planning, design, and vacant land re-use. Mitch is the Faculty Advisor for the ULI Hines Student Urban Design Competition, a Faculty Fellow with the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, an Engaged Cornell Faculty Fellow, and was a member and Chair of the City of Ithaca's Planning and Development Board from 2018 to 2024.

George M. Kramer, AICP, is the President of Inspire Placemaking Collective, Inc., an interdisciplinary firm of Planners, Designers, and Landscape Architects with offices in Boston, Durham, Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa, and Miami. George holds a Master's degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Florida. Strategy and implementation are at the forefront of George's approach to planning. He has a keen understanding of technical, administrative, and political issues and specializes in the successful execution of complex projects. George is committed to an interdisciplinary approach to Placemaking that emphasizes collaboration across professional disciplines to deliver innovation and value to clients.