serving as the acting executive director of the Richmond Housing Authority, launching the Richmond Rent Program (Rent Control and Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance), and launching the Richmond Promise Scholarship. Mr. Arredondo supports these initiatives in large part through thoughtful planning and execution of inclusive community engagement strategies.

Prior to working in the City Manager’s Office, Mr. Arredondo assisted with implementation and community engagement efforts surrounding the city’s adoption of the Richmond General Plan 2030 and, more specifically, the Community Health and Wellness Element. He has a B.A. in history and Chicana/o studies with a minor in education from the University of California (UC), Los Angeles, and an M.A. in language and literacy and society and culture from UC Berkeley. He is originally from the Boyle Heights neighborhood in Los Angeles and has always been interested in equity and access work with historically disenfranchised communities.

Alexa Bush, M.L.A., is passionate about creating equitable and resilient cities. She is the urban design director of the East Region in the city of Detroit Planning Department. She manages a team responsible for planning and implementing neighborhood development and open space projects in Council Districts 3 and 4. She is also the lead for the Livernois/McNichols Planning Initiative, which includes the Fitzgerald Revitalization Project and the Reimagining the Civic Commons Initiative. Ms. Bush received her bachelor’s degree in visual and environmental studies with a focus on filmmaking from Harvard University and her M.L.A. from the University of Virginia.

Jo Z. Carcedo, M.B.A., M.P.A., is the vice president for grants for the Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF). In this role, she developed the foundation’s grants management system, oversees all operational aspects of the organization’s grantmaking portfolios, supervises the grants management team, and directs all organization-wide grantmaking policies, processes, and systems to ensure EHF’s grantmaking is aligned with its core values and strategic goals. Ms. Carcedo has more than 25 years of experience in the health and human services arena engineering grants management systems that help leadership teams think more creatively about the use of public- and private-sector investments to develop sustainable business strategies. She has raised more than $300 million in public grants and contracts from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, including from the Administration for Children and Families, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Texas Education Agency, and several private philanthropies. Ms. Carcedo has an M.B.A.

from Texas Woman’s University, an M.P.A. from The University of Texas at Austin, and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University. She is a board member of Philanthropy Southwest, a grant reviewer for HRSA and served on the Grants Committee for the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund established by the Mayor of the City of Houston and the Harris County Judge in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.

Nupur Chaudhury, M.P.H., is a bridge builder and translator in the fields of urban planning and public health. Throughout her career, she has developed and implemented strategies to support residents, communities, and neighborhoods in challenging power structures to build just, strong, and equitable cities. She has led coalition building efforts after Superstorm Sandy through her work with the Rebuild by Design competition, has redeveloped power structures in villages in India through the Indicorps fellowship, and has developed a citizen planning institute for public housing residents in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Her work has been featured in the American Journal of Public Health, CityLab, and on National Public Radio. Ms. Chaudhury is also a program officer at the New York State Health Foundation, where she is responsible for identifying and nurturing opportunities for effecting positive systemic change within communities across the state. She is a member of the American Planning Association, an Urban Design Forum’s Forefront Fellow, a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow, a board member of University of Orange, Center for the Living City, and is the past board chair of Made in Brownsville. She is a founding director of the Center for Health Equity, housed at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and she has an M.P.H. from Columbia University, a master’s degree in urban planning from New York University, and a B.A. in growth and structure of cities from Bryn Mawr College.

Colby Dailey, M.P.P., is the managing director of the Build Healthy Places Network, where she oversees organizational strategy and growth, business operations, and program implementation. She brings more than a decade of experience spearheading global and national networks spanning the impact investing, community development finance, and philanthropy fields. Prior to joining the Network, Ms. Dailey was a policy director at Pacific Community Ventures (PCV), where she led a number of large-scale impact investing policy initiatives, including with the UK Cabinet Office and World Economic Forum, among others. Before working with PCV, she was a program director at Capital Impact Partners, a national community development financial institution, where she launched what is now the national Grounded Solutions Network for affordable homeownership. Ms. Dailey serves on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health

Prize National Advisory Group, the Best Babies Zone National Advisory Council, and the Northern California Community Loan Fund Board of Directors. She earned her M.P.P. at the University of California, Berkeley.

David J. Erickson, Ph.D., M.P.P., is the senior vice president and the head of outreach and education at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. His areas of research include community development finance, affordable housing, economic development, and institutional changes that benefit low-income communities. Dr. Erickson has a Ph.D. in history from the University of California (UC), Berkeley, with a focus on economic history and public policy. He also holds an M.P.P. from UC Berkeley and an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College. Dr. Erickson has been a leader in the collaboration between the Federal Reserve and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in bringing the health sector together with community development. To date, this collaboration has resulted in 52 conferences and numerous publications, including a cluster of articles in Health Affairs in November 2011. His book on the history of community development, The Housing Policy Revolution: Networks and Neighborhoods, was published in 2009 by the Urban Institute Press. He also co-edited Investing in What Works for America’s Communities: Essays on People, Place, and Purpose (2012); What Counts: Harnessing Data for America’s Communities (2014); What It’s Worth: Strengthening the Financial Futures of Families, Communities and the Nation (2015); and What Matters: Investing in Results to Build Strong, Vibrant Communities (2017).

The Honorable Shirley C. Franklin is currently the executive chair of the board of directors of Purpose Built Communities and the former Barbara Jordan Visiting Professor in Ethics and Political Values at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. She was elected the first African American woman mayor of a major southern city in 2002 and served two terms as mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, until 2009. The mayor is term limited in Atlanta. Upon leaving office, she was appointed to an Endowed Chair at Spelman College and served until June 2011. During her 8 years, the city experienced unprecedented growth and afforded Ms. Franklin the opportunity to partner and collaborate with many local and regional leaders in addressing policy challenges, which included urban planning, economic development, and infrastructure. She is best known for advocating for and tackling major government operations and ethics reform, launching the Atlanta Beltline, planning and executing more than $5 billion in airport and water infrastructure improvements, leading the acquisition of the Morehouse College Collection of Martin Luther King Jr. Papers, launching the Regional Commission on Homelessness, and developing successful business and public-sector partnerships and alliances.

ment efforts of the Omaha metropolitan area. Mr. Meadows returned home after nearly 15 years in order to run a nonpartisan voter registration drive that registered more than 10,000 new voters in eastern Omaha prior to the 2008 presidential election. Before returning to Omaha, Mr. Meadows operated his own law firm, Othello H. Meadows, P.C., in Atlanta, Georgia, where his practice focused on criminal defense, family law, and general civil litigation. Mr. Meadows attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, on a basketball scholarship and earned his B.A. in psychology in 1997. He later received his J.D. from the North Carolina Central University School of Law in 2004. Mr. Meadows is a board member at the Creighton Preparatory School, The Jesuit Academy, and Nebraska Appleseed. He also currently chairs the Omaha Community Foundation’s African-American Unity Fund Grants Committee.

Bobby Milstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a director at ReThink Health for the Fannie E. Rippel Foundation. He directs Rippel’s work on system strategy, a member of Rippel’s strategy and management team, and a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. Dr. Milstein is a principal contributor to the ReThink Health initiative’s projects Portfolio Design for Healthier Regions and Amplifying Stewardship Together. He also leads a suite of nationwide influence activities and coordinates ongoing development of the ReThink Health Dynamics Model, the Well-Being Portfolio Design Calculator, and other simulation tools that let leaders play out the consequences of their scenarios for change. In 2018, Dr. Milstein and four co-authors wrote the official brief that defines “health and well-being” as the central focus for the Healthy People 2030 Framework for the United States.

Before joining Rippel, Dr. Milstein spent 20 years planning and evaluating system-oriented initiatives at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he was the principal architect of CDC’s framework for program evaluation. He received CDC’s Honor Award for Excellence in Innovation, the Applications Award from the System Dynamics Society, and Article of the Year awards for papers published in Health Affairs and Health Promotion Practice. Dr. Milstein once was a documentary filmmaker whose work was used by PBS to spotlight the challenges of racism on college campuses. He also contributed storylines for The West Wing on how to get beyond zero-sum thinking when setting health priorities. He attended Union Institute and University (Ph.D.), Emory University (M.P.H.), and the University of Michigan (B.A.).

Justin Garrett Moore, M.S., M.Arch., is an urban designer and the executive director of the New York City Public Design Commission. He has extensive experience in urban planning and design—from large-scale

urban systems, policies, and projects to grassroots and community-based planning, design, and arts initiatives. At the Public Design Commission, his work focuses on prioritizing quality and excellence for the public realm and fostering accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in New York’s public buildings, landscapes, and art. He is a member of the American Planning Association’s American Institute of Certified Planners Commission, the Urban Design Forum, and BlackSpace. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University and the co-founder of Urban Patch.

Carol Redmond Naughton, J.D., is the president of Purpose Built Communities, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving racial equity, economic mobility, and health outcomes in communities across the country. Purpose Built Communities works to improve neighborhoods so that they become platforms that support families working to improve their lives. Building on the framework developed during the revitalization of Atlanta’s East Lake neighborhood, Purpose Built Communities works with local leaders to help them plan, implement, and sustain holistic neighborhood revitalization initiatives that create healthy neighborhoods that include broad, deep, and permanent pathways to prosperity for low-income families.

For 7 years leading up to the creation of Purpose Built Communities, she served as the executive director of the East Lake Foundation, the innovative nonprofit organization that serves as the “community quarterback organization” for the East Lake neighborhood. Prior to joining the East Lake Foundation, Ms. Naughton was the general counsel for the Atlanta Housing Authority (AHA), where she played an instrumental role in the revitalization of traditional public housing communities into economically viable, self-sustaining, mixed-income communities, and she was a key member of the leadership team that transformed AHA from a failing bureaucracy to a national leader in community development. Prior to joining AHA, Ms. Naughton was engaged in the private practice of law with Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan’s real estate group, where she primarily represented real estate developers, lenders, and asset managers.

She is a graduate of the Emory University School of Law and Colgate University. Ms. Naughton serves as the chair of the board of directors of the Low-Income Investment Fund, a national community development financial institution with more than $1 billion invested in low-income communities across the country. She is a long-time member of the board of directors of the Charles R. Drew Charter School and currently serves as its vice chair. She serves on the national advisory board of the Build Healthy Places Network and is currently serving as an expert advisor to the Fannie Mae Sustainable Communities Challenge.

Report’s annual rankings, now standing at sixth among top public regional universities in the north.

As a leader in public higher education, Ms. Raab continues her long career in public service from lawyer to political campaign adviser to government official. She previously served as a litigator at two of the nation’s most prestigious law firms—Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Quickly earning a reputation as a strong but fair advocate, she was appointed chair of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, where she was known for her effective and innovative leadership of the agency that protects and preserves the city’s historic structures and architectural heritage. Crain’s New York Business named her one of New York’s “100 Most Influential Women in Business” in 2007 and one of the “50 Most Powerful Women in New York” in 2009 and 2011. In 2018, Ms. Raab was honored as a champion of educational opportunity by the Harlem Educational Activities Fund. That same year, she was inducted into the Manhattan Jewish Hall of Fame and named by City & State to its “Women Power 100” and “Manhattan Power 50” lists. In 2019, she joined the advisory board for Women.nyc, a mayoral initiative to make New York City “the best place in the world for women to succeed.” A graduate of Hunter College High School, Ms. Raab received a B.A. with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University, an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Lourdes Rodriguez, Dr.P.H., M.P.H., serves as the director of community-driven initiatives at the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin. She works on community-engaged research and practice projects that build on ideas elicited from community colleagues. Previously, she served as a program officer at the New York State Health Foundation. From 2004 to 2012, she was a faculty member of the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Currently, Dr. Rodriguez is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement. She received a B.S. in industrial biotechnology from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, an M.P.H. from the University of Connecticut, and a Dr.P.H. from Columbia University.

Lynn M. Ross, M.R.P., is the founder and the principal of Spirit for Change Consulting, LLC, where she works nationally and across sectors with organizations on a mission to create and sustain equitable policies, practices, and places. The work of Spirit for Change takes many forms, including serving as the lead consultant to the Knight Foundation on the national Reimagining the Civic Commons demonstration and Public

Spaces Forum as well as partnering with the city of Akron, Ohio, to create a strategic framework for its new Office of Integrated Development. Dedicated to serving mission-driven organizations, Ms. Ross has more than 18 years of multi-sector experience, including past senior leadership roles as the vice president of community and national initiatives at the Knight Foundation; the deputy assistant secretary for policy development in the Office of Policy Development and Research at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; the executive director of the Urban Land Institute’s Terwilliger Center for Housing; the chief operating officer for the National Housing Conference and the Center for Housing Policy; and the manager of the planning advisory service at the American Planning Association (APA).

Ms. Ross holds a master’s degree of regional planning from Cornell University and a B.S. in community and regional planning from Iowa State University. She serves on the board of KaBOOM! and the advisory committee for the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities. From 2017 to 2019, she served as the co-chair of the national working group developing APA’s historic Planning for Equity Policy Guide. In 2017, Ms. Ross became a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar at Session 574, The Child in the City: Health, Parks and Play. In 2019, she was named one of 50 “Women of Influence” by the Royal Town Planning Institute’s The Planner magazine.

Laura Torchio brings more than 30 years of experience from the public, private, advocacy, health, and tourism sectors. She is a seasoned facilitator with a forte to inspire thoughtful, creative civic engagement. In her current role at the Project for Public Spaces (PPS), she manages and advises training, projects, and program development related to transportation, health, and community engagement. Since joining PPS in 2016, Ms. Torchio has brought her expertise in leadership, active transportation, and public involvement to guide her team at PPS. She has coordinated the creation of tools and web resources for Streets as Places and Main Streets, and orchestrated the final production and promotion of peer-reviewed research in The Case for Healthy Places: Improving Health Outcomes Through Placemaking. She has facilitated workshops in a diverse range of communities—reaching rural towns like Salmon, Idaho, with her work on the Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design, and engaging cities like Durham, North Carolina, in her community placemaking training sessions. She puts people first in all that she does, while connecting health and equity to policy, programs, and the built environment.

Ms. Torchio’s rich career has included civil service, consulting, advocacy, health, tourism, and volunteering. She got her start in New Jersey Counties and Metropolitan Planning Organizations, where she grew to

co-create New Jersey’s Complete Streets and Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs. She advanced that work as state advocacy organizer with the SRTS National Partnership; she went on to pilot regional healthy eating and active living initiatives with Montclair State University, and on weekends, she led inn-to-inn bicycle tours with Bike Vermont. She continues to apply her creativity, zeal, and expertise implementing intersection murals, artful crosswalks, parklets, and pop-up protected bike lanes as a volunteer board member of Bike & Walk Montclair.

The Honorable Armando Walle is serving his sixth term in the Texas House of Representatives. First elected in 2008, Representative Walle represents Texas House District 140, which consists of portions of north Houston and unincorporated portions of north Harris county, including parts of the Northside and Aldine communities, where he grew up, graduated from MacArthur High School, and still resides. During his time in the Texas Legislature, Representative Walle has worked on many issues important to him and his constituents, with a particular focus on improving the health, safety, and economic well-being of working families. Representative Walle, raised by a single mother and the oldest of five children, was the first in his family to attend and graduate from college. The experiences and lessons of his humble upbringing have informed his legislative priorities. He has authored a variety of bills toward those priorities, from providing water utility customers recourse for nonexistent water service, to helping nursing mothers return to work, to establishing Texas’s Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Task Force. His efforts as an elected official have been instrumental in bringing new clinics to medically underserved areas in House District 140 and building the East Aldine Town Center, which includes the BakerRipley campus, the Harris County 911 Call Center, and eventually a campus of Lone Star College–North Harris.

Representative Walle is currently a member of the House Committee on Appropriations, serving as the vice-chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Article III (public and higher education) and as a member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on State Infrastructure, Resiliency, and Investment. In his work on the House Appropriations committee he has sought to broaden access to health care by providing more resources to and protecting the state’s women’s health programs while fighting perennial efforts to erode safety net programs crucial to so many children and families across the state. He also serves as a member of the House Committees on Higher Education, Redistricting, and Local and Consent Calendars. Representative Walle previously also served on the House Committees on Energy Resources, Human Services, Business & Industry, and Insurance, as well as the Appropriations Subcommittees on Article

II (health and human services agencies) and Articles VI, VII, and VIII (natural resources, business and industry, and regulatory entities), and others. He is a member of a number of legislative caucuses, including the Mexican-American Legislative Caucus, for which he serves on the board as treasurer. He is also a member of the House Democratic Caucus, Women’s Health Caucus, and LGBTQ Caucus.

Before Representative Walle was elected to the Texas House, he served on the staffs of multiple elected officials, including Congressman Gene Green and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, where he led different community projects, including Immunization Day, Paying for College workshops, and senior citizen issue forums. Now a practicing attorney, he earned bachelor’s and law degrees from the University of Houston.