Derek Lombardi Jeopardy Profile: Age, Job, Family, Stats

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Derek Lombardi Jeopardy Contestant Profile

Derek Lombardi is an urban planner based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who serves as Principal Planner in the Office of Smart Growth at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC). He has built a career focused on regional planning, transportation, land use, zoning, community development, sustainability, and economic development. At DVRPC, he helps coordinate planning activities and technical studies across the nine-county Greater Philadelphia region, working to improve transportation systems, land-use efficiency, and smart growth strategies. His work includes developing planning tools, providing technical assistance to local governments, and promoting best practices in community and economic development.

Before joining DVRPC in June 2017, Lombardi gained extensive experience in public planning and community development. He served as a Graduate Assistant with the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development’s Division of Neighborhood Revitalization, where he supported the state’s Sustainable Communities program, facilitated site visits and webinars, evaluated grant applications, drafted action plans for local governments, and contributed to GIS mapping projects. During graduate school at the University of Maryland, he coordinated the Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS), connecting university resources with local government and community needs, while also supporting research on federal sustainable transportation initiatives. He additionally interned with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, assisting with planning documents, zoning code analysis, and sustainability planning.

Earlier in his career, Lombardi spent five years with Teach For America, serving as a Corps Member, Recruitment Associate, and Recruitment Manager. As a teacher, he taught Pre-Algebra and Algebra I in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, working with diverse student populations and leading curriculum development efforts. As a recruiter and manager, he developed national recruitment strategies, managed staff and student representatives, oversaw operations and Salesforce CRM processes, and facilitated training programs. His educational background includes a Master’s Degree in City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning from the University of Maryland College Park, a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from Bucknell University, and a Graduate Certificate in Secondary Mathematics Education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Professionally, Lombardi is certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and has been AICP-certified since 2021. His planning work includes commercial redevelopment, transportation planning, parking policy, municipal master planning, housing strategy, and smart growth initiatives. He co-authored studies such as Exploring the Future of Shopping Malls in Greater Philadelphia and Strategies for Managing Residential Parking in Philadelphia, and contributed to the award-winning Camden Health Element for the City of Camden’s Master Plan. He is also affiliated with the Urban Land Institute’s Philadelphia Housing Council. His skills include community outreach, GIS, data analysis, research, strategy, operations management, logistics, nonprofit management, and Microsoft Office. He speaks German and Spanish and has built a professional network of more than 500 LinkedIn connections while maintaining a significant presence in the Greater Philadelphia planning community.

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