Tom Knoche
Tom Knoche holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lehigh Univ. and a Master of Regional Planning from Univ. of N. Carolina. Working as an urban practitioner/ teacher/ community organizer, Knoche has provided technical assistance to many grassroots community organizations committed to social change, especially with housing and community planning. He has won many awards including the Community Merit Award from the Camden Housing and Community Development Corp. and the Hans Gobel Award from the Concerned Citizens of North Camden.
Knoche began his career in urban planning in Baltimore at the Baltimore City Dept of Planning in 1975. Assigned to the planning section his work included: programming highway capital improvements; parking studies; regional transit needs studies; and site plan reviews. In 1984, Tom Knoche joined the Rutgers Univ. Staff as a part-time lecturer teaching such classes as Power and Decision Making, Basic Methods of Urban Planning, and Urban Ecology and Planning. Currently, outside of Rutgers, Tom is Co-Coordinator for Leavenhouse (a non-profit, all volunteer organization) which serves a prepared meal once/day, manages 22 SRO units of permanent housing for homeless people, and is involved in a number of neighborhood and social justice issues. From 1991-93, Tom worked with residents in in the North Camden neighborhood to create a neighborhood plan, and he now works part-time with Save Our Waterfront, the community non-profit responsible for plan implementation.
