Urban Design Speakers

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

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

Real Estate Developer, Peabody Award-Winning Broadcaster & Urban Revitalization Strategy Consultant; TED Speaker; Author of "Reclaiming Your Community"

Academy Award-winning Production Designer, Art Directors Guild Award Winner, Afrofuturist Cultural Curator

HGTV Host, Real Estate Expert, Award-Winning Broadcaster

Designer, Social Innovator & Urbanist, Founder of Studio O

Director of the Center for Research on Child Wellbeing; William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University; PI, Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

Licensed Contractor & Realtor; Host of HGTV and DIY Network's "Yard Crashers"

Former Mayor, City of Compton

Real Estate Developer; Mayor; US Army Veteran

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

Professor of Sustainable Communities at the University of Virginia & Author

Italian Architect & Engineer; Director of MIT's SENSEable City Lab; Founding Partner of Carlo Ratti Associati

Chief Climate Strategist for the Natural Resource Defense Council

President & Chief Strategy Officer at Therme Group US; Co-Founder & Former Executive Director of Friends of the High Line

CEO & President of Enterprise Community Partners; Former United States Secretary for Housing and Urban Development

Futurist Keynote Speaker & AI Thought Leader

Executive Director of Next River & Author, "How We Show Up"

President & Chief Executive Officer, Community Solutions; Leader in Innovative Strategies to End Homelessness

Design Director, Anti-Incarceration Advocate, Architect