Molly O'Neill Robinson, AICP is an urban designer and planner, a career-line instructor at the University of Utah's College of Architecture and Planning, and founder of MOR Design & Planning. With nine years leading Salt Lake City's urban design efforts, she spearheaded the Downtown Plan, reframing public engagement to include previously marginalized communities and establishing urban policy that supports downtown as a vibrant, livable neighborhood. Previously, she worked with award-winning teams at OLIN and Sasaki.

Michael Angelo Larice, PhD is an urban designer and educator. For more than two decades, he has taught urban design, urban studies, and pedagogy at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of British Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Utah, developing urban design curricula at each school. His design studios partnered with municipal governments, public agencies, and community organizations, often involving funded international travel. His academic work focuses on the public realm, streetscapes, livability, social sustainability, and slum upgrading. His professional work includes projects in Aruba, southern Africa, and California. With UC Berkeley Professor Elizabeth Macdonald, he co-edited two editions of Routledge's Urban Design Reader. Dr. Larice holds a BA in Design and a Master of Architecture from UCLA, and a PhD in Planning and Urban Design from UC Berkeley.

Allen Penniman weaves urban planning, design, and real estate development into the equitable revitalization of distressed urban communities. He practices as a senior urban planner at Agency Landscape + Planning and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Allen's work has involved reactivating commercial corridors, realizing housing development, sustaining postindustrial creative districts, and reinventing streets to support joyful public life.

Amanda Haycox has worked as both a statutory and strategic planner for state and local government as well as a planning consultant in the private sector. She began her career planning for public housing in the state government and later as a planner in the (then) state Department of Infrastructure. She worked as a planner in Eswatini, Southern Africa, and as a planner in the Birmingham City Council in England. Amanda is currently the Coordinator of City Strategy and Place Planning Glen Eira City Council in Melbourne, Australia.