Libby Tart is excited to join the E3 team as a senior environmental planner with a background in non-profit management, and grassroots organizing, and over 18 years of local government planning experience. She is a certified planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and holds a certificate of completion in the Foundations in Public Participation from the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2).  

She was originally onboarded with the Commerce City Planning Division in September 2022 and began work on development review projects ranging from affordable housing to large industrial recycling centers. Before C3, she was a senior long-range planner for four years at Adams County working on the 2020 Comprehensive Plan update and serving on task forces for the Hazard Mitigation Plan, Parks, Recreation, Open Space and Cultural Arts Master Plan, Sustainable Adams County 2030 Plan, and Transportation Master Plan. She was also an Adams County staff liaison to the District Plan Commission, or the partnership between the City of Brighton and Adams County to preserve farmland in the Historic Splendid Valley region. 

She also worked with the Cities of Longmont and Aurora. Her work at the City of Aurora involved development review and code updates on sustainability items involving electric vehicles, solar and wind energy. She served as a local government contact on the Sustainable Buildings Council of Colorado, Project FEVER (Fostering Electric Vehicle Expansion in the Rockies), LiveWell HEAL (Healthy Eating, Active Living) Communities, the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute (RMLUI) beta version of the Sustainable Community Development Code, and internally on a committee with Aurora Water to foster community garden opportunities within the city. 

Libby graduated with a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) and a Masters in Public Administration with concentrations in Environmental Policy and Non-Profit Management from the University of Colorado – Denver and with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Environmental Ethics Certificate from the University of Georgia – Athens. Before her work in urban planning, she was a grassroots campaign organizer for the Colorado Springs/Pueblo region Yes on Amendment 24 campaign (2000) and as a staffer with the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Sierra Club. Her volunteer work has ranged from being a Denver co-chair with the RMC Sierra Club to board member with the American Planning Association’s Colorado Chapter (2013-2018), a Task Force Member on the Plan4Health Grant, and a current board member for The Land, a UMC affiliated wild church involving food, faith, and urban farming. 

Olivia Quagliani is a recent graduate from the University of Utah where she received her degree in Sociology and Environmental Sustainability, emphasis in Land Conservation and Management. She also studied at Utah State University’s extension campus where she earned her certificate in Sustainable Supply Chain Management. She has volunteer experience with Tree Utah where she planted trees and studied the viability and growth of trees in the study. She previously worked for a ski school company, Flaik, as a Sustainability Services Intern where she focused on achieving B Corp Certification and Carbon Neutrality for the company. She also worked for a native landscape company, YardFarmer Co., doing research on which species would thrive in her client’s ecosystem. She is excited to be a part of the E3 team!