Margi Bradway is the Deputy Director of Planning, Development and Research at Metro, the regional government for the Portland metropolitan region. In this role, she manages the transportation portfolio, including Metro’s Emerging Technology program. After graduating law school at Lewis & Clark, Margi practiced law as an environmental and land use attorney at Stoel Rives, LLP. Beginning in 2008, Margi worked in the Director’s Office of the Oregon Department of Transportation where she worked on policies and developed programs related to sustainability and active transportation. In 2014, she became the head of the Active Transportation and Safety Division for the City of Portland. In that role, Margi was on the City of Portland’s Smart City team when City of Portland was a finalist in the US DOT Smart City competition. Margi also led the launch of the City’s BIKETOWN bike share program, launched a new automated enforcement program, as well as other innovation solutions at the City. With 20 years of experience in the private and public sector, Margi is skilled at collaborating with a wide range of public and private partners with diverse perspectives to achieve challenging goals.

Josh Brown is the Executive Director of the Puget Sound Regional Council. PSRC works to support a thriving central Puget Sound region through planning for growth, transportation, and economic development. PSRC provides more than $250 million annually to fund transportation projects and serves as a resource for regional data on transportation, the economy, population, and housing. Following a historic period of rapid growth and strong economic gains, the central Puget Sound region is now facing public health and economic challenges related to the coronavirus pandemic. In complex and changing times, PSRC helps bring leaders together to work on solutions to these shared regional challenges. Josh meets regularly with elected leadership and gives presentations to groups around the region to share information on regional data, funding and planning efforts.

Heather McNell is the General Manager of Regional Planning and Housing Services at Metro Vancouver. With over 24 years of experience in land use and transportation, growth management, housing and parks planning at the regional and local levels, Heather leads two talented teams: Regional Planning – whose role is to develop and steward Metro Vancouver 2040: Shaping our Future, the regional federation’s vision for how to manage growth coming to our region in a way that reflects the values of the regional federation to protect important lands, develop a network of complete, connected and resilient communities, and support the efficient provision of urban infrastructure like transit and utilities; and Metro Vancouver Housing, the region’s second largest non-profit housing provider with 49 sites providing affordable rental housing to 9,500 tenants. Metro Vancouver Housing also has ambitious plans to add 2,300 new and redeveloped units over the next 10 years in an aim to making a significant contribution to addressing the region’s housing crisis.

Alan Hart is both an architect and urban planner, and as a Founder of VIA Architecture, has focused his forty year practice on helping communities in the Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and San Francisco regions to become more walkable, livable, sustainable, and better connected. In that role, Alan has been a champion for the architectural and urban design of infrastructure as an integral part of a community vision, by using a broad spectrum of mixed-use, transit, and urban planning projects as strategic tools to not only envision high quality urban environments but also to get them built and in place.