John Haffner

John joined Vital Communities as a housing and transportation program manager in 2021, supporting collaborative efforts to address the longstanding housing crises in the Upper Valley and encourage multi-modal transportation options within and between our communities. John has spent the past nine years researching, teaching, facilitating, and engaging community members around issues related to major infrastructure projects. This has taken him to South Africa to work with community activists on access to telecommunications technology as well as to southwestern Ontario to research Indigenous land use perspectives on transportation planning. John looks forward to settling into the Upper Valley with his family where he will continue to hone his pandemic hobbies of woodworking, bread baking, and playing Dungeons & Dragons. “I’m inspired by the everyday work that people do to care for their communities and for each other. I believe that planning for more just communities is a common human goal worth working towards!”