Speakers
Keynote speakers:

Joe Anderson – Mayor of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Maurice Cox – Planning Director, City of Detroit
Mayors Panel:

Karl Dean – Former Mayor of Nashville, TN and Mayor in Residence at the BU Initiative on Cities

Kimberley Driscoll – Mayor of Salem, MA

Annise Parker – Former Mayor of Houston, TX and Resident Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics

Daniel Rivera – Mayor of Lawrence, MA
General speakers:

Daniel M. Abramson – Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History and Director of Architectural Studies, Tufts University

James Alexander – Principal, Finegold Alexander Architects

George Born – PhD candidate, American & New England Studies, Boston University

Daniel Bluestone – Director, Preservation Studies Program, American & New England Studies, Boston University

Taylor Cain – Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology, Boston University

Dorothy Clark – MA Design Studies, Historic Preservation, Boston Architectural College

Sheila Dillon – Cabinet Chief of Housing and Director of the Department of Neighborhood Development, City of Boston

Anthony Flint – Fellow and Director of Public Affairs, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Karyn Gilvarg – AIA, Executive Director, City of New Haven Plan Department

Emily Goldman – PhD candidate, City and Regional Planning, Cornell University

Anne Gatling Haynes – AIA LEED, MBA, Director, Transformative Development Initiative, MassDevelopment

Intiya Isaza-Figueroa – Development Specialist at Home City Housing

Kathleen Mahoney – MA Public History, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mark Melnik – Director of Economic and Public Policy Research, University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute

Kathryn Rogers Merlino – Associate Professor and Director, Center for Preservation and Reuse, University of Washington

Alex Morse – Mayor of Holyoke, MA

Marianne Paley Nadel – Founder, Groundwork Lawrence and Owner, Everett and Stone Mills

Jim Newman – Founder and Principal, Linnean Solutions

Carl R. Nold – President and CEO, Historic New England

Shaun O’Rourke – Green Infrastructure Director, Trust for Public Land

Max Page – Professor, MS Design Program Director, Director of Historic Preservation Initiatives, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Robin Ried – Manager of Urban Planning Practice, Bloomberg Associates

Albert Rex – Partner and Director, Northeast office, MacRostie Historic Advisors LLC

Arlen Stawasz – Resiliency Specialist, Perkins + Will Global

Katy Stuck – M. S. Historic Preservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Brian Swett – Director, Cities and Sustainable Real Estate, Arup

Meredith Wilson – MS, Historic Preservation, Clemson University

Diana Wylie – Professor, History Department and the African Studies Center, Boston University