10 Years of One Omaha: Milestones That Matter
Over the past decade, One Omaha has empowered neighborhoods, trained over 1,000 leaders, and supported 50 transformative community...
Robert Laroco has been a City Planner with the City of Omaha Planning Department since 2017. He works in environmental and resilience planning in the Long-Range Division and leads a team as Project Manager for the development of the City’s Climate Action and Resiliency Plan. Prior to this he served for many years as the City’s Floodplain Manager and Planning Board Administrator. Robert began his career as a City Planner on staff in Rapid City, South Dakota, where his commitment to environmental action was reinforced over seven years of working and living in the Black Hills. Before his time in the Hills, Robert was a graduate Fellow at the University of Iowa, where he earned his Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning. Robert met his wife Laraine as an undergrad in Sioux City, Iowa. They have two daughters, Winifred and Sylvia. When not pursuing transformational environmental action, Robert is typically found escorting the girls to soccer events.
Lynsey is an Omaha native with family roots in the North Omaha/Florence area. She had a rewarding, 18-year career at PayPal where she was able to learn and expand her skills in product and portfolio management. She most recently managed strategic planning operations for the company, where she brought collaboration, trust and transparency to the planning process. Her desire to be more connected to the purpose and mission in her work led her to leave PayPal in 2021 and go all-in on city planning. She is currently completing her Masters in Community & Regional Planning at UNL and has a graduate certificate in Public Management from UNO. In November of 2023 she joined the City of Omaha's Planning Department as one of 3 City Planners tasked with delivering a new Comprehensive Plan to Omaha.
Kene Okigbo, ASLA is a licensed Landscape Architect in RDG Planning & Design’s Urban Design & Planning Studio. He graduated from North Dakota State University, earning his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture and Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design. He considers design of the public realm a responsibility that is equally heavy and awesome and he values the lessons shared by his industry peers. Kene imagines new mediums through which innovative voices in landscape architecture can be amplified and is fascinated by emerging project typologies that can offer solutions to pervasive global and societal issues. He and his work have been recognized with numerous awards and he is a frequent speaker at universities and conferences across the country.
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