Principal & Owner, Gelabert-Sanchez & Associates

Vice President, Strategic Economics

Former Assistant City Manager, City of Charlotte
Principal & Owner, Schumacher Urban Projects, PLLC

President, The Hodgson Company

Former Vice President for Business Development, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation
Executive Director, Design Core Detroit

Former Director, Department of Community and Economic Development, City of Tacoma, Washington
Business Development Executive, MuniServices

Former Mayor of Orlando
Founding Partner - triSect, LLC

Founding Principal, SITIO architecture + urbanism

Director of Planning & Urban Design, Gensler

Deputy Director, Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services Office

Chief, Louisville Forward, Louisville Metro Government, Kentucky

Principal, TND Engineering

President, CHPlanning, Ltd.

Principal, Ward Development Counsel, LLC

Sustainable architecture and urban design consultant

General Manager/CEO, Seattle Public Utilities

Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Dallas Area Rapid Transit

President, Rose & Associates Southeast, Inc.

Partner, Urban Field Studio

President, The Farkas Group, LLC

Managing Partner - Maxwell + Partners, LLC

President - Minich Strategic Services

President & CEO, Economic Development Growth Engine

Executive Director, Portland Development Commission

Assistant City Manager & Community and Economic Development Director, City of Benton Harbor, Michigan

Director, Department of Planning and Permitting, City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii

Strategic Advisor, DJCA

Senior Planner & Urban Designer, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Executive VP & COO of New York City Economic Development Corporation
Samco Properties

Assistant Director of Economic Development / Director of Real Estate Office of Economic Development, City of San José, CA

Director - Office of Planning, District of Columbia

President and CEO, Linden Associates, Inc.

Resilience Team Lead, Municipality of Anchorage, AK

Director of Urban Experience, MIG

Equity Indicators Project Manager, Office of the Mayor - City of St. Louis, MO

Founder, Smart Incentives

Urban Design and Transportation Practice Builder, Kimley-Horn

Planning Bureau Manager - Department of Development Services, City of Long Beach, CA

City Councilmember, District 8, City and County of Denver

Associate Administrative Analyst - Department of Neighborhood & Business Development, Project Development Division, City of Rochester

Principal, Museum Concepts

Executive Vice President, Development, Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3DCD)

Founder/Director at Colloqate Design

Graham Gund Architect, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Director - Division of Housing and Community Development, City of Memphis, Tennessee

Director, Community Planning and Economic Development Department - City of Minneapolis, MN

Principal Project Coordinator & Manager of Participation Loan Programs - City of Minneapolis, MN

Director - Office of Business Diversity and Compliance, City of Memphis, TN

Co-Director Democracy at Work Institute

Executive Director Democracy at Work Institute - City of Oakland, CA

Associate Director, The ICA Group

Director of Lending, Washington Area Community Investment Fund (WACIF)

Economic Analyst, Budget & Tax Center, North Carolina Justice Center - City of Raleigh, NC

US EPA Office of Sustainable Communities

Managing Director City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii

President & CEO, Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce

Director, Office of Planning and Development, Memphis & Shelby County, Tennessee

Managing Director of Development, The Peebles Corporation

Principal Planner, Bay Area Rapid Transit

Volte - Change Strategist
Executive Director, Ponyride cowork space

Director, Mayor's Economic Mobility Lab - City of Boston, MA
Policy Research Fellow, Mayor's Office of Policy - City of Boston, MA

Staff Analyst/Senior Administrative Associate, City of Houston, TX

Director of Urban Programs, National Main Street Center

City Councilmember, City of Richmond, VA

Chief Operating Officer - Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City

State and Local Policy Director - Enterprise Community Partners

Director of Community Development, Casa Familiar

Director, West Denver Renaissance Collaborative, Denver Housing Authority

Senior Vice President, Midway Companies

Director, Transportation Department, City of Charlotte, North Carolina

Former Director, Houston Planning and Development Department

Senior Fellow for Urban Design, Regional Plan Association

Development Director, Continuum Partners, LLC

Economic Development Manager, Office of Economic and Workforce Development, City of Oakland, California

Chief Resilience Officer, Resilience and Community Services, City of Louisville, KY

Chief of Staff - Mayor’s Office, City of Austin, TX

Former Deputy City Manager, City of Long Beach, CA
Assistant City Manager, City Manager’s Office, City of Sacramento, CA

Chief Program Officer, Neighborhood Development Center (NDC)

Senior Planner, Livable Streets San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) - City of San Francisco, CA

Deputy Director Federal City Council (FC2)

Principal - Salazar Architect Inc.

CEO, Industry City

Campaign Director, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy

Founder, Recast City, LLC

Founding Executive Director, SFMade

Policy Director - Mayor’s Office, City of Sacramento, CA

Manager of Small Business / Creative Economy - Mayor’s Office of Economic & Community Development, City of Nashville, TN

Director of High Capacity Transit, City Manager’s Office
City of Phoenix, AZ

Executive Director - Small Business Resource Center, City of Baltimore, MD

President and CEO – The Enterprise Center

Executive Director, Northeast Ohio Hispanic Business Center

Principal and CEO, Ginkgo Residential LLC.

Director - Planning Department, Office of Community and Economic Development, Municipality of Anchorage

Manager - Mobility and Parking Services, City of Grand Rapids, MI

Project Manager/ Director of Business Development - Moody Nolan, Houston, TX

President of Urban Key Capital Partners, Atlanta, GA

President, The Dishnica Company, LLC

Founder, RW & Associates, LLC

President, Momark Development, LLC

Director - Department of Development Services City of Hartford, Connecticut

Deputy Director of Multi-Modal Transportation, Office of Advance Planning Develop; Louisville, Louisville Forward, Louisville Metro Government, Kentucky

Associate Principal, Community Design + Architecture

Executive Director, The Street Trust

Vice President & Director of Operations, Americas, Building + Places, AECOM

Deputy Chief of Staff for Economic Development, Mayor's Office, City of Omaha

President, Neighborhood Allies

Transit Oriented Development Manager - Office of Planning and Community Development, City of Seattle

Senior Manager for Transit Oriented Communities, Regional Transportation District

Former Acting Chief of Staff – Baltimore Housing

Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, TN

Senior Policy Advisor, Louisville Forward

Vice President, Purpose Built Communities

Director, Transformative Development MassDevelopment

Principal, Prosperity Labs

President, JLP+D

Principal Planner - Planning & Development Services Department, City of Tucson, AZ

Director - Department of Development, City of Columbus, Ohio

Deputy Chief Administrative Officer of Operations, City of Richmond, VA

Director, Rural & Native American Programs, Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.

Partner, Goodmans, LLP

CEO, Urbina Strategies, LLC

Former Senior Planner, Department of Community Development, City of Birmingham
Planner, Giattina Aycock Architecture Studio

Deputy Chief of Staff - Mayor’s Office, City and County of Denver

Founder & Managing Partner of Tideline Partners, San Diego, CA

Vice President, Economic Development and Planning - Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, Inc.

President, Lee Bey Associates

Principal, Downtown Advisory Services

Director of Landscape Architecture, Detroit Collaborative Design Center - University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture

Senior Architect, Luckett & Farley

Chair, Hartford Redevelopment Agency
Partner, Pullman & Comley, LLC

Director, Urban Design Studio, University of Louisville

Executive Director, Department of Planning, Environment and Project Development, Sound Transit

President & CEO, Smart Growth America

Special Projects Manager - City of Littleton, CO
Former Executive Director - Denver Transit Alliance

Project Manager, Triangle Transit

Regional Planning Director, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)

Director - Department of Planning, Engineering & Permits, City of Birmingham

Deputy Commissioner, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency
Former Planning Division Director, City of Minneapolis

Commissioner - Department of Neighborhood and Business Development, City of Rochester, NY

City Engineer & Deputy Director - Department of Public Works, City of Long Beach, CA

Senior Land Use Planner – TOD, Sound Transit

Director of Capital Planning, New York City Housing Authority

Transit-Oriented Development Planning Manager, Sound Transit

Director of Federal Affairs, National Association of Latino Community Asset Builders

Co-Founder, Civic Enterprise - City of Los Angeles, CA

Chair, Providence Redevelopment Agency; Co-Founder, Markham + DeRentis Associates

Administrator of Economic Opportunity, City of Tampa, Florida

Principal, Vita Nuova

Director, Department of Planning and Development, City of Seattle, Washington

Associate Principal, EE&K/Perkins Eastman

Managing Director, Los Angeles Fund, CitiView

Vice President/ Landscape Architecture Practice Leader (Americas), AECOM

Director, Planning Department, City of Omaha

Deputy Chief of Policy, Mayor's Office, City of Boston

Principal, K. Dixon Architecture, PLLC

Director, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, City of Portland

President & Principal, WCIT Architecture

Director, Department of Metropolitan Development, Indianapolis & Marion County

Principal & Owner, Corneil Collaborative

Assistant Director - Department of Public Works, City of Tacoma, WA

City Council Member, Place 1 City of Austin, Texas

Former Director, Urban Ventures Group
Assistant Vice President for Community Relations and Economic Development, Temple University

Partner, Project^ Ecological Development

Former Deputy Executive Director, Downtown DC Business Improvement District

Director, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Department

Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Ventures

Assistant City Manager, City of Sacramento, California

Vice President & TOD National Practice Leader, AECOM

Economic Development Manager, Louisville Forward

Executive Director, Nashville Career Advancement Center

Economic Investment Manager - Economic Development Department, City of Sacramento, CA

Assistant Director, Planning & Development Department - City of Phoenix, AZ

Assistant Professor of Housing and Community Development - 
School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology

Principal/President Spinnaker Real Estate Partners

CEO - Community Allies

Executive Director, Riata Center for Entrepreneurship, the Norman C. Stevenson Chair in School of Entrepreneurship and International Entrepreneurship Chair - Oklahoma State University (OSU)

Principal Planner, Kittelson & Associates

Former Mayor of Pittsburgh
Senior Resident Fellow for Urban Development, Urban Land Institute

Managing Partner, HR&A Advisors, Inc.

Director, Department of City Planning, City of Pittsburgh

Director, Department of Neighborhoods, City of Seattle

Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation

Deputy Neighborhood Engagement Director - Neighborhood Services Department, City of Phoenix, AZ

Consultant, City of Sacramento, CA

Assistant Director - Economic Development Department, City of Austin, TX

Executive Director, Charles Village Community Benefits District (CVCBD)
Former Economic Development Officer, Baltimore Development Corporation
Retail and Main Streets Coordinator, Baltimore Development Corporation - City of Baltimore, MD

President - Anderson Strategic Advisors, LLC

President & Managing Member - Goodwin Management Group, LLC
Project Executive & COO - Ventra Group, LLC

Director Urban Business Initiatives, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC)

Director Entrepreneurial Assistance and Development Center (EDAC), Morgan State University

Economic Development Manager - Economic Development Department, City of Sacramento, CA

President and CEO, Baltimore Development Corporation

Deputy Economic Development Director - Community & Economic Development Department, City of Phoenix, AZ

Council Member, City of Austin, TX

Co-founder ScaleUp Partners, LLC - Central Point, Oregon

CEO, INTERISE

Vice President Research and Analytics. Fourth Economy

Program and Membership Director, Urban Manufacturing Alliance (UMA)

Local Initiatives Organizer, Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI)

President & CEO, Downtown Grand Rapids, Inc.

Assistant Director - Department of Planning, Building & Code Enforcement, City of San José, CA

Director - Department of Housing and Community Development, District of Columbia

Former Community and Diversity Affairs Manager, Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh
Program Officer, Equitable Development, The Heinz Endowments

Director, Urban Resilience, Urban Land Institute

Chicago Program Director, Trust for Public Land

Partner, Okamoto Saijo Architecture

Former Director, Office of Neighborhood Investment, City of Oakland, California
Director, Brokerage Services, Cushman & Wakefield

Commercial Corridor Manager - Department of City Development, City of Milwaukee, WI

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Manager, Neighborhood & Business Services, Economic Development Division, City of Charlotte, NC

Senior VP, Norton Scott LLC

Vice President, Research Advisory Services, JLL

Executive Director, Sacramento Area Council of Governments

Manager of Rail Transit Research, Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Principal, Fehr & Peers

Principal, Direct Invest Development, LLC

Vice President, Thomas P. Miller & Associates

Principal, LRK

Principal, Urban Design + Planning, AECOM Buildings + Places

Executive Director, Detroit Collaborative Design Center - University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture

Policy Analyst, Mayor's Office of Economic Development, City of Boston, MA

Deputy Economic Development Director, Economic Development Division - City of Charlotte, NC

Executive Director, Washington Area Community Investment Fund (WACIF)

Founder, Venture Catalyst Consulting

Economic Development Manager - Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Former Neighborhood Business Manager - City of Boston, MA

Founding Partner and Board President, MORTAR

Senior Project Manager, Boston Redevelopment Authority

Chief of Housing & Director, Department of Neighborhood Development, City of Boston

Director, Public Works Department, City of Omaha

CEO, Community Development Corporation of Utah

Lead Planner - Planning & Development Services Department, City of Tucson, AZ

President, CASTO Communities

Senior Design Associate, Alta Planning + Design

Director, LOCUS: Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors, Smart Growth America

Vice President, Public Institutions, JLL

Technical Consultant, Civil Engineering & Hydraulics

Planning Administrator, Department of Metropolitan Development, Indianapolis & Marion County

Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, City of Memphis, Tennessee

Director, Bureau of Transportation, City of Portland

President, Toole Design Group

Deputy Director, Department of Arts & Venues - City & County of Denver, CO

Assistant City Manager, Director of City Planning & Development, City of Kansas City, Missouri

Director of Transportation - Department of Public Works, City and County of Denver

Director, Historic Preservation Design Studio - Moody Nolan

Chief of Staff - Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development, District of Columbia

Managing Director -Economic Development Services, City of Grand Rapids, MI

Director - Office of Community and Economic Development, Municipality of Anchorage

Vice President, Asset Management, Washington REIT

Principal, Studio Completiva

Assistant City Manager, City of Tucson, AZ

Chief Operating Officer - Economic and Community Development, City of Richmond, VA

Director, Planning Division - Department of Community & Neighborhoods, Salt Lake City, UT

President & CEO, Victory Housing, Inc.

Manager, Veterans & Special Needs Housing, National League of Cities

Real Estate Developer/ Economic Development Strategist

Community Planning, Development and Resilience Expert

Principal & Owner, Blue Wall Real Estate

Director - Office of Workforce Development, City of Boston, MA

Deputy Commissioner, Department of City Development, City of Milwaukee, WI

Real Estate Specialist - Department of City Development, City of Milwaukee, WI

Program Director for Leadership Development and Continuing Education - National League of Cites

CEO of Future Economies LLC
Former Director, Economic Development Department - City of Austin, TX

Director, Mayor’s Office of Employment Development - City of Baltimore, MD

Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Tampa Housing Authority

Principal, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates

Principal, Community Land Use + Economics Group, LLC

Deputy Director, Economic Development Department, City of Houston, TX

President & CEO, Los Angeles LDC, Inc. (LDC) - City of Los Angeles, CA

Director of Strategic Planning I Arts & Culture - City of Detroit, MI

Principal, AthenianRazak, LLC

AGA Public Realm Strategists, Yale University

Principal, Morris Architects

Chief Operating Officer & Market Advisor, The Gideon Companies

Business Development & Investment Director, Department of Economic Development - Prince William County

Principal, Truppi Consulting, LLC

Owner, Tully Design Group

Director - Bureau of Planning and Zoning, Department of Neighborhood & Business Development, City of Rochester

Floodplain Administrator - Department of Planning, Engineering & Permits, City of Birmingham

Practice Group Attorney, Greenberg Traurig, LLC

Partner & Senior Vice President, Development, Holladay Properties

Chair, Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Deputy; Director, Heavy Constructors Association of Greater Kansas City

Deputy City Solicitor, City of Providence, Rhode Island

President, Charles A. Long Properties

Senior Advisor, Sun Valley EcoDistrict - Denver Housing Authority