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Mikaela L. Engert

Mikaela L. Engert

Bio:

Mikaela L. Engert, originally of Rochester, NY, is the City Planner and Climate Protection Coordinator for Keene, New Hampshire. She received a degree in Liberal Studies from Green Mountain College in 2000 and later went on to the University of Buffalo where she earned a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning in 2004.

She’s currently employed as a city planner for the City of Keene, New Hampshire.

According to Alumni Snapshot page at the Green Mountain College Career Services site she spends most of her time “supporting the Planning Board and various other city committees, such as the Heritage Commission, Bicycle and Pedestrian Committee, and the Cities for Climate Protection Committee.” She reviews planning board applications for proposed development, provides technical assistance in the development of regulations, assists the general public with the development review process and conducts site inspections for compliance of board approvals. The rest of her time “is spent working with ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and our Cities for Climate Protection Committee to monitor, evaluate, and implement our community’s greenhouse gas emission reduction plan.”

According to the page she is “currently assisting the City with the formulation of a new plan that focuses on the community’s ability to improve its long-term preparedness for climate impacts.”

Previously to her position as city planner of Keene she was a community planner at Behan Planning Associates from 2003 to 2006.

Why is she on JailedActivist.info?:

She was the anonymous young woman who issued the complaint against Ian Bernard for the couch on his tenants lawn which eventually resulted in his ongoing incarceration. Fred Parcell on the September 27th, 2008 episode of Talkback described her vaguely (skip to 6:30 in) when Ian claimed he did not believe there was an actual complainant. It wasn’t until Ian’s November 14th trial while in the closed room after his first contempt of court charge that her name was released.

On Monday, November 17th, Ian Bernard on his radio show Free Talk Live confirmed that Mikaela L. Engert was the complainant and her name was announced during the private trial as heard in the clip above.

Interactions with Ian Bernard prior to couch issue:

On August 9th, 2008, a week before Ian Bernard received his first visit from Mr. Carl Patten Jr., Mikaela L. Engert was on the local radio show Talkback to discuss the Keene, NH Visioning Process. During the show Ian called to ask questions on the Visioning Process. After describing the Visioning Process to Ian he says “accomplishing those things would be great as long as we don’t aggress our neighbors. Now you wouldn’t advise aggressing against our neighbors to accomplish those things? Would you?” Mikaela replies: “I wouldn’t advise aggressing against anybody.” Later she says that: “I want to stress this whole thing is really about community dialog and it’s about having conversations with people and it’s not about being aggressive towards anybody.”

Clips of the show can be found here. Ian comes in at about 10:30.

Interactions with Ian Bernard after his release from jail over couch:

On Tuesday, November 18th, Ian published an open letter to Mikaela indicating he had forgiven her. As of the time of posting she has not only failed to respond to the letter but has made no public or private statement regarding the couch situation.

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Quotes:

  • “I’m not really enjoying the tone of this and I’m not going to engage in that.” – Speaking to Sam Dodson of Texas after he confronts her about the inherent violence in the state system.
  • “I wouldn’t advise aggressing against anybody.”
  • “I want to stress this whole thing (Keene, NH Visioning Process) is really about community dialog and it’s about having conversations with people and it’s not about being aggressive towards anybody.”

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