Dan Kwasnowski is the planning director for the Syracuse-Onondaga County Planning Agency or SOCPA, a combined city/county planning agency. He lives in the Village of Marcellus, New York, with his wife Karen and two children, Jonah and Colden. Kwasnowski is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and has been working as a planner in varying applications for 21 years including as a town planner/director for eight years, a private consulting planner and entrepreneur for six years, a river restoration specialist, a hydropower regulatory and environmental specialist, and as the executive director of a land trust in Lake Placid. He is an avid mountain and road cyclist with volunteer experience planning, designing, and building a variety of mountain bike and multiuse trails and trail systems.