The Highland Crossing Trail was recognized for being a pedestrian and bike-friendly connection between Brighton Town Park and the Genesee Riverway Trail. It provides an active transportation route for short commutes to work and to recreational destinations, all while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and other environmental degradation.

Shawn Dunwoody was recognized for his use of public space to enact placemaking and community care.

Dunwoody is a co-founder of Hinge Neighbors and the integrative artist, designer, and visual consultant of DUNWOODĒ Visual Consulting. A widely-recognized and multi-disciplinary creative force for change, he has been integral in many dynamic Rochester projects, including: painting COVID infographics on sidewalks, "Black Lives Matter" on Court Street, and Composers Crossing at the intersection of Gibbs Street and E Main Street; as well as the Sanitation Station project with Hinge Neighbors, which utilized abandoned Pace kiosks throughout the community for free hand sanitizer units.

The City of Rochester was recognized for Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park's role over the years as a space for community gathering, engagement, and mobilization.

This park has gone through a number of lives in our city. Often ignored in the years after its construction, and not often the site for active programming in the city, the area has now come to new life, both as a site for a variety of programs ranging from concerts to a Winter and Christmas Village, to more recently being reincarnated as a blackboard on which Rochesterians can record their anger and hopes.

Germania Garzon (GG) is an Architectural Designer and dog mom of three beautiful pit-bull pups. She is a big home improvement and graphic design enthusiast, and she loves to sketch and share her creativity outside of work. GG received both her bachelor's in Urban Design & Public Policy and master's in Architecture at the University at Buffalo. She serves on the AIA Rochester Board of Directors as Social Media Director, and hopes to continue being involved in the Rochester design community.

A New York City native with Minnesota roots, Stacey Veolette Waxtan, Owner of Veolette Design, has always loved building a visual brand. A degree in Organizational Studies from the University of Michigan set her on a fast-paced path of television production, graphic design, and finally interior design, where she combines her love of a tight schedule, luxe materials, and construction. Stacey builds joyful, balanced spaces reflective of her client's personality, and she prides herself on designing intuitively, with critical attention to function and flow. Stacey believes great design has the power to help communities thrive, and is grateful to join the CDCR in this time of growth and reinvention.

Mariam Yaqub is a Project Manager with CJS and longtime volunteer with the CDCR. She completed her B.Sc. Arch and M.Arch degrees from Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI during which she was a recipient of two architecture scholarships: AIA Rhode Island and Raj Saksena. Her Graduate Thesis "Open Source Architecture: Redefining Residential Architecture in Islamabad" won the RWU Thesis Award.

As an architect, Mariam appreciates that volunteering with CDCR allows her the unique opportunity to hear what the residents of the city she builds in really want and need from their built environment. She believes the CDCR creates a safe space that allows dialogue and empowers its residents through knowledge and discussions, and that it is essential as a design professional to be engaged in such dialogues to help create a city for its people.