COMMUNITY CALENDAR

Building Healthy Communities

Special Guest: Diana Lind

Diana Lind writes and speaks extensively about how to build more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable communities. She is the Editor-in-Chief of Forefront and helped launch the New Cities Foundation, a Geneva, CH-based nonprofit organization aligning diverse sectors to develop new models of urbanizatinon.

Previously, she was the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Next American City magazine. During her tenure at Next American City, she started the URBANEXUS monthly event series, the Next American Vanguard fellowship program, and the annual Open Cities conference. She remains the magazine's editor-at-large and the hose of Metro Matters, a montly podcast in collaboration with the Brookings Institution.

Lind began her career at Archetectural Record. Taking her interest in residential environments to book form, Lind authorded "Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors, & Design" (Rizzoli, 2008). Her work has been profiled in publications including The New York Times and Monocle. She has been an instructor or lecturer at numerous universities including Columbia University, Drexel University, Rutgets University-Camden, and the University of Windsoe. She won the ACLU's Stand Up for Freedom contest in 2008, and was a 2011 Van Alen Institute High Speed Rail Fellow. She serves on the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster and the program committee of the Ed Bacon Foundation.