Planning high-profile events of different sizes and formats has given Shared Vision staff unique experience in tailoring each event to help public clients achieve their goals for effective community involvement.

Signe Rich is the Executive Director of Shared Vision, a non-profit organization that specializes in public engagement processes involving visioning and community outreach on major issues facing the Albuquerque metropolitan area. She accomplishes this mission through an extensive network of volunteer support from the community.

As a director of Albuquerque city government planning and redevelopment programs for many years, she has extensive experience in citizen involvement processes in which it is necessary to balance different interests and value the interests of the broader community. In these roles she has been results-oriented and has formed several public-private partnerships to accomplish community goals. She prepared a city-county comprehensive plan, many neighborhood sector plans and downtown revitalization strategies. She initiated redevelopment of a major mixed use hotel-office-retail complex in downtown Albuquerque and obtained a $13 million Urban Development Action Grant (UDAG). She initiated and managed the Nob Hill Main Street program resulting in that area's commercial revitalization, and organized capacity building for several local community development corporations. She initiated a goals and objectives process for City departments tied to performance measurements and accountability

She was the recipient of a HUD fellowship for Intergovernmental Management and spent two years in Washington, D.C. developing national urban policy and negotiating public private partnerships for communities across the country in the UDAG program. She served two elected board terms on the national Council for Urban Economic Development (CUED) in Washington, D.C.

She has authored many reports and published articles on urban development issues. She has traveled widely and in addition to Washington, has lived in major cities throughout the country including Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Chicago. She has a Masters degree (M.A.) in Humanities from The University of Chicago and a Masters Degree (M.P.A.) in Urban Studies/ Public Administration from the University of Southern California, Washington Public Affairs Center.