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Podcast | April 17, 2023
Episode 66: Women Who Ride Transit
We’re joined by Scarlett De Leon, Campaigns Director at Alliance for Community Transit – Los Angeles and Meghna Khanna, Senior Director, Mobility Corridors, Countywide Planning & Development at Los Angeles Metro.
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Podcast | April 11, 2024
Episode 79: A New Model for Public Housing at Sun Valley
Erin Clark, Chief Real Estate Investment Officer for the Denver Housing Authority, takes us into the story of the Sun Valley Redevelopment, in which 300 public housing units are being replaced and expanded to more than 900 units in a neighborhood plan shaped by long-time residents.
Podcast | March 7, 2024
Episode 78: Culture Change in Cleveland
A 1-1 Conversation with Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute, and India Birdsong Terry, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.
Podcast | February 8, 2024
Episode 77: Public Sentiment and Public Transit
In this 1-1 Conversation, Adelee Le Grand of Intellectual Concepts and Scott Wilkinson of AlphaVu talk about using data analytics and AI to understand what the public is thinking – and act on it.
Podcast | January 11, 2024
Episode 76: Displacement is More than Housing
We’re joined by Dr. Kathryn Howell, Director of the National Center for Smart Growth and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, for a conversation about bout her daily e-bike commute, organizing around the Purple Line, the importance of eviction data and commercial displacement.
Podcast | December 14, 2023
Episode 75: Health in All Places
Jon Ford of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco leads a conversation with Mimi Narayan from the Pew Charitable Trusts and John Vu from Kaiser Permanente about the connections between transportation, housing and public health.
Podcast | November 21, 2023
Episode 74: Downtown or Not Downtown
A dynamic discussion about the future of downtowns and the elements of successful places – downtown or not.
Podcast | October 13, 2023
Episode 73: Older Adults and Climate Emergencies
Our guest is Danielle Arigoni, Managing Director for Policy and Solutions at the National Housing Trust, and author of the new book, Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation.Â
Podcast | September 14, 2023
Episode 72: Leveraging TOD at BART
with Abby-Thorne Lyman, Director of Real Estate and Property Development at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
Podcast | August 10, 2023
Episode 71: Developing with Creativity
Our guest is Tim Sprague, a Principal with Habitat Metro in Phoenix, Arizona. As an infill developer, Tim has worked on a range of projects, many of them near light rail.
Podcast | July 13, 2023
Episodes 69 and 70: Do It for the Neighborhood, Parts 1 & 2
Listen to a One-to-One Conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix and Ryan Winkle from RAIL CDC in Mesa, Arizona. The two of them discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa, what it takes to earn trust, and getting positive results.
Podcast | June 8, 2023
Episode 68: Micromobility and Access
Our guests are Hussein Mahfouz and Adham Kalila, authors of a new report, All Possible Commutes: How Micromobility and Realistic Car Travel Times Impact Accessibility Analyses
Podcast | April 17, 2023
Episode 66: Women Who Ride Transit
We’re joined by Scarlett De Leon, Campaigns Director at Alliance for Community Transit – Los Angeles and Meghna Khanna, Senior Director, Mobility Corridors, Countywide Planning & Development at Los Angeles Metro.
Podcast | March 14, 2023
Episode 65: Caretakers of the Public Realm
We’re joined by Andrew Jones, Program Director for the Uptown and Downtown Community Benefits District (CBD) in Oakland, CA.
Podcast | February 9, 2023
Episode 64: A County Voice for Transit
We’re joined by Miami-Dade County, Florida, Commissioner Eileen Higgins