Veronica Davis is the Founder of Black Women Bike and Nspiregreen. She has spent much of her life advocating for transportation options, especially when it comes to people of color. While the conversation about biking is so often led by upper middle class white folks, Veronica is bringing a new and valuable perspective. Through, Nspiregreen […]

Amanda Eaken is the Director for Transportation & Climate in Healthy People and Thriving Communities Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Her career is focused on figuring our how we can build sustainable cities. She wants to figure out how we can build communities that meet the needs of today without sacrificing our able to […]

Aaron Renn is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and writes daily as on the Urbanophile. He is interested in all that goes into creating stronger cities. He truly understands the complexity and interconnected nature of our communities. In this podcast, he shares what goes into branding a city and how to […]

In this special episode, we are joined by Diane Mulcahy, Author of The Gig Economy. Additionally, Sam Steidle and Lynda McNutt Foster join us in the studio to dig into the “gig economy” more fully. Over the course of podcast, we dig into what the future of work looks like and how we can adjust. It […]

Madhavi Reddy works on Community Development Advocates of Detroit’s place-based initiatives supporting neighborhoods to develop a shared vision for their future. She is also a Detroit Revitalization Fellow. She has done some incredible things empowering Detroit residents to take control of their communities. Further, she has some great wisdom to share about how to engage […]

Maureen Brondyke is the Executive Director of New City Arts in Charlottesville, VA. She has been responsible for building and growing this vibrant arts organization since 2010. In that time, she has done tremendous work to change what the art community looks like in Charlottesville. Her works provides a vision for how other communities might […]

Steven Pedigo is the Director of the NYU Schack Institute Urban Lab and an acknowledged expert on how to build cities that work. His work spans many of the sectors that inform the placemaking and city building conversations. While thinking primarily about economic and real estate development, he is very interested in how all of these […]

Michelle Senayah is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Laneway Project. Laneways, or alleyways, are often underutilized spaces in our cities. Michelle’s work is focused on how to expand how we think about these underutilized spaces. They have had some great success in turning laneways into mixed use spaces. Her unique set of expertise […]

Julian Chambliss is a Professor of History at Rollins College where he explores real and imagined cities. His varied work covers a number of really interesting topics, including urban history and comic book impacts on our culture. Much of his expertise is focused on how African-Americans experience cities and communities. Our conversation ranged across a […]

Eric Jaffe is the Editorial Director at Sidewalk Labs. He has been writing and thinking about cities for years now. Through his work with Sidewalk Labs, an Alphabet company, he is exploring a new perspective on how we can build better cities. They are undertaking a massive experiment with Toronto and continue looking for ways […]