
How Could Cities Better Connect All Their Residents to Economic Opportunity?

2014 Group Blogging Event
On May 12, 2014, Meeting of the Minds and Living Cities invited civic-minded leaders across sectors to participate in a group blogging event focused on the question:
“How could cities better connect all their residents to economic opportunity?”
Bloggers were asked to write their response to the prompt and publish it on their website at exactly 9am, local time, on May 12, 2014. 64 bloggers participated. Their responses are listed below.
Participants
Ben Hecht
President and CEO, Living Cities
Neil Kleiman & Stephen Goldsmith
New York University & Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
Claire Nelson
Publisher, Model D, UIX Detroit
Ken Thompson
Senior Program Officer in the Pacific Northwest Initiative, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Ben Starrett
Executive Director, Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
Jonathan Reckford
CEO, Habitat for Humanity International
Margery Turner
Senior Vice President for Program Planning and Management, Urban Institute
Amy Chung and Juan Sebastian Arias
Living Cities
Sean Daniel Murphy
President and Managing Director, Fund Good Jobs
Charles Rutheiser
Senior Associate in Center for Community and Economic Opportunity, Annie E. Casey Foundation
MarySue Barrett
President, Metropolitan Planning Council
Justin Bibb
Director of Strategy & Sales, Conduit Global
Brooks Rainwater
Director of the City Solutions and Applied Research Center, National League of Cities
Russ Vanos
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, Itron
Todd Vogel
Managing Director, Loom, a foundation
Matthew Roling
Director of Business Development, Rock Ventures
Michael Mehaffy
Executive Director, Sustasis Foundation
Jessie Feller
Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds
Kirk T. Steudle
Director, Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT)
Gordon Feller
Director, Cisco
Meghna Tare
Director of Sustainability, University of Texas at Arlington
Julie Fossitt
Marketing Manager, Cultural Services, City of Kingston, Ontario
Edmundo Werna & Andres Mella
International Labor Office
Charles A. Hayes
President & CEO, Research Triangle Regional Partnership
Alan Mountjoy
Planner / Architect, NBBJ
Anne Schwieger
Founder, Digital Equity Project
Shaina Kandel
Staff Writer, CityMinded.org
David Auerbach
Co-founder, Sanergy
Mark Skinner
Director, Regional Innovation Acceleration Network (RIAN)
Dan Gilmartin
Executive Director & CEO, Michigan Municipal League
Lisa Donovan
Communications Coordinator, Michigan Municipal League
Kristen Jeffers
Founder and Editor-in-Chief, The Black Urbanist
Leslie Lynn Smith
President and CEO, TechTown Detroit
Margie Caust
Consultant, Urban Collaboration, Ltd
Zach Leverenz
Chief Executive Officer, EveryoneOn
Jason Perkins-Cohen
Executive Director, Job Opportunities Task Force
Significance Labs
Matt Carmichael
Editor, Livability.com
Hollie Russon-Gilman, Laurenellen McCann & Georgia Bullen
Open Technology Institute
Jesse Berst
Founding Chairman, Smart Cities Council
Aaron M. Renn
Founder, Analyst, Urbanophile.com
Doug Newcomb
Car Technology Writer, Expert, Consultant, DougNewcomb.com
Katherine Takai
Project Manager, International City/County Management Association (ICMA)
Chris Dorle
Strong Cities, Strong Communities Fellow, Detroit Future City (DFC) Implementation Office
Bradford Frost
Director, Detroit Corridor Initiative
Rich Michos
Vice President, Smarter Cities, IBM
Jorge Luis Lopez
Government Affairs Attorney, Miami
Margot Kane
Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, Calvert Foundation
Institute for Transportation & Development Policy
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Marsha Druker
Marketing Communication Specialist, Mircom
Greg Delaune
CEO and Co-founder, UIX Global
Kim Zeuli
Senior Vice President, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City
Josh Harman
Program Manager, CleanTECH San Diego
Cathy Lewis Long
Executive Director, The Sprout Fund
Anne Laure Desjardins
Paris Region International Mission Enterprise (PRIME)
Fares Ksebati
Fellow, Challenge Detroit
Susanne Seitinger
City Innovations Manager, Philips Color Kinetics
Heidi Goldberg
Program Director for Early Childhood & Family Economic Success, National League of Cities Institute for Youth, Education, and Families
Kim Davis
Editor-in-Chief, Future Cities
Pete Saunders
Urban Planning Consultant, Chicago-based
Ian Delaney
Journalist, Here.com
Sarah Craft
Information & Policy Research Program Coordinator, Michigan Municipal League
Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy
Managing Director & Partner, Context Partners
Ilana Preuss
Chief of Staff, Smart Growth America