John Parr was a Principal and co-founder of Civic Results. John also served as Senior Counsel of the Alliance for Regional Stewardship, for which he was the founding President/CEO, a national network of practitioners from the public, private and nonprofit sectors that are using metropolitan or rural regional approaches for community problem solving. Previously, John served as President of the National Civic League (NCL), the Director of the Center for Public-Private Sector Cooperation and as the Transition Director for Mayor Federico Peña of the City and County of Denver. John was also Director of the Colorado Front Range Project, a public-private long range planning effort on growth issues in Colorado's 200-mile urban corridor started by Governor Richard D. Lamm. John served as a special assistant to Governor Lamm and directed the field organization of the campaign to elect Lamm governor of Colorado. John also served on the founding staff of Common Cause's first state chapter, Colorado Common Cause. John was a Lecturer in the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado. He also taught in programs at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of Denver. John had a J.D. from the University of Denver, College of Law and a B.A. in Political Science, Purdue University.

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