Like many of us, mobility shaped L’erin Jensen’s life, from public transit in middle school to an electric scooter last week. In her new role as co-host of The Movement Podcast, she’ll leverage this life experience and her journalism credentials to advance mobility equity.

As the co-chairs of Boston’s New Urban Mechanics, Nigel Jacob and Kris Carter are connecting the city’s strengths of innovation and creativity to an experimental approach to learning in order to make living and working in Boston better for all its residents.

In a complex world, we have to acknowledge that we are not, as activist Audre Lorde said, living single issue lives, meaning our solutions can’t be one-dimensional either. Ariel Ward and Brytanee Brown of At the Intersections share that the equitable solutions lie at the “epicenter of our complexities.”

During James Rojas’s formal planning education and the beginning of his career, he found that planning tools relied on maps and infrastructure and overlooked the role of memory, creativity, and art, an oversight that excluded people and undermined what truly makes a city unique.

Atlanta’s Center for Civic Innovation once earned the imprimatur of “good trouble” from the late Representative John Lewis. Founder and Executive Director Rohit Malhotra shares the story of the Center and their mission to improve equality and build trust between communities and government.

As the American Public Transportation Association’s policy director, Darnell Grisby understands the unique role that transit can play to increase access to opportunity not only for riders, but also for the next generation of diverse industry leaders.

Throughout Naomi Doerner’s career and community involvement, she has married transportation and mobility justice to not only better understand community needs, but to begin to shift power from dominant structures back to the community and its constituents.

Over the past four years and across 10 cities, Lynn Ross of Spirit for Change Consulting has helped reimagine our public spaces for increased engagement, equity, environmental sustainability and economic development. A key lesson: co-creation is the only way forward.

If we want to overcome systemic racism as well as COVID-19 financial impacts, Tennessee Department of Transportation Multimodal Services Director Suzanne Carlson believes we’ll need not individual leaders, but a network of great leaders communicating and supporting each other.

What happens if you do planning work not from behind a desk, but in front of a community? That’s what self-described street level researcher Charles Brown does, allowing him to hear the voices of the people who are truly the experts in their communities.