Ekta Naik

Head of Real Estate Development at SoLa Impact

Nicole Jain

Education Policy Advisor, Children’s Book Author, Film Producer & Public Servant

James Johnson Jr.

Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center

Sara Wahedi

Tech Entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of Ehtesab App

Roberta Brandes Gratz

Award-Winning Journalist, Urban Critic, Lecturer & Author

Christopher W. Quigley

Founder & CEO of Agency Custom, Custom Architectural Design and Fabrication Expert

Iya Dammons

Founder & Executive Director of Baltimore Safe Haven

Ann Sussman

Author, Architect & Researcher

Dario Calmese

Artist, Urbanist, Director & Brand Consultant; First Black Photographer to Shoot a Vanity Fair Cover

Patrick M. Condon

Senior Researcher, Design Center for Sustainable Communities at UBC; Author on Sustainable Communities

Ben Hecht

Former President & CEO of Living Cities

Thomas Abt

Senior Fellow, Council on Criminal Justice; Author of "Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence - and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets"; Former Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School

Cindy Frewen

Sustainable Architect; Urban Designer & Futurist

Dan Wu

Affordable Housing Advocate

Alan Mallach

Author; Senior Fellow at the Center for Community Progress & The National Housing Institute

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Jan Gehl

Founder & Senior Advisor of Gehl Architects; Professor, Architect MAA

Douglas Farr

Architect, Urbanist, Author & Advocate for Sustainable Design Thinking

Brent Toderian

Consulting City Planner & Urbanist; Founder of TODERIAN UrbanWORKS

Amanda Williams

Visual Artist

Mara Mintzer

Co-Founder of Growing Up Boulder

Justin W. Cook

Founding Director of the Center for Complexity at Rhode Island School of Design

Peter Exley

Co-Founder & Play Strategist, Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

David Sills

Professor of Christian Missions and Cultural Anthropology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and President of Reaching & Teaching International Ministries

Lance Hosey

Design Innovator

Walter Hood

Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design at UC Berkeley

Vishaan Chakrabarti

Architect & Author of "A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America"

Molly Wright Steenson

Design Professor, Architecture & Technology Historian; President & CEO of the American Swedish Institute

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Deanna Van Buren

Design Director & Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces

Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Research Psychiatrist; Professor of Urban Policy & Health at The New School

Liz Dozier

Founder & CEO of Youth Equity Platform Chicago Beyond; Star of CNN's Documentary Series "Chicagoland"