Rohit T. “Rit” Aggarwala is Head of Urban Systems at Sidewalk Labs. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and recently chaired the Regional Plan Association’s five-year effort to develop a Fourth Regional Plan for the New York metropolitan area.

Previously, Rit spent five years at Bloomberg Philanthropies in several related roles. He headed the sustainability practice at Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consulting firm that serves city governments; was Special Advisor to the Chair of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group during Mayor Bloomberg’s chairmanship of the organization, spearheading its transformation into a global leader; and he inaugurated the Bloomberg Philanthropies environment program, which grew to a total of $145 million in grants under his management.

From 2006 to 2010, Rit served as Director of New York City’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability, where he led the creation and implementation of “PlaNYC: A Greener, Greater New York.” PlaNYC has been hailed as one of the world’s best urban sustainability plans, leading New York City to a 19% reduction in its carbon footprint since 2005. Prior to joining City Hall, he was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Rit holds a BA, MBA, and a PhD in US History from Columbia University, and an MA in Canadian History from Queen’s University in Ontario. He is a native of New York City.

Libby is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk, Libby studied Computer Science at MIT. Through internships, she has worked on machine learning for Google Search and optimization research at Maersk. She is passionate about applying software to analyze and solve problems, specifically in transportation.

Libby has spent a lot of time in cities, having lived in New York, Toronto, Boston, and Copenhagen. In her free time, she likes to explore, eat vegetarian food, bake, and play with dogs.

Jack Amadeo is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs.

He joined Sidewalk after working at Compass, a real estate tech company, where he built applications to improve an experience many New Yorkers loathe: finding a new home. Before that, he was an engineer at Bloomberg working on high-performance collaboration, messaging, and internal CRM products.

A native New Englander, Jack came to New York to study Math at New York University and has called the city his home ever since. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, with whom he can usually be found exploring the city on foot or by bicycle.

Maria is a Senior User Experience Researcher at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk, Maria worked at Uber, where she focused on user experience and international expansion operations.

Hailing from Florida, Maria enjoys traveling, making lists, and reading non-fiction. She’s currently focused on learning French, her fourth language.

Mark Bauernhuber is Director, Product Designer at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, he worked for Marriott International where he lead multiple design and product transformation initiatives for several hotel brands across multiple market segments. He began his career as an architect for a firm specializing in civic, education, and religious design and construction.

Mark earned his undergraduate degree in architecture from Virginia Tech and graduate degree in Project Management from The George Washington University.

A recreational runner, Mark has spent the past 20 years running the National Mall and trails of Washington, DC. Having grown up at the beach in NJ, he now gets his salt air fix exploring the Delaware beaches with family and friends. Always in search of the proverbial authentic experience, you are likely to find Mark at the local neighborhood pub chatting with the bartender and meeting the locals. He lives in Chelsea with his partner and their labradoodle, Lincoln.

Tess is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Most recently, she worked on the traffic light system on Uber ATG’s self-driving car. Prior to Uber, she was on the robotics team at the University of Florida’s Machine Intelligence Lab. During this time, she traveled around the country to complete in robotics competitions and build perception algorithms for a robotic submarine called SubjuGator and a robotic boat called NaviGator (yes, all of the robot’s names made references to her school mascot, the Florida Gator!).

Tess is originally from Orlando, Florida. In her free time, she enjoys running, group fitness classes, performing improv comedy, watching any kind of comedy, reading, and writing.

Maya Borgenicht is an Associate Director on the Policy and Communications team, based in Toronto. Maya has worked on urban planning projects in Toronto, Ottawa, and New York City.

Most recently, Maya served as a policy advisor to the Canadian Minister of Indigenous Services and the Canadian Minister of Infrastructure and Communities. In both roles she focused on infrastructure policy, including housing, public transit, and green infrastructure policy. Before moving to Ottawa, Maya worked for Toronto-based, city-building not-for-profits Evergreen CityWorks and Artscape. As a Project Manager at CityWorks Maya managed the organization’s GTA Housing Action Lab initiative and the Move the GTHA mobility coalition. Before moving to Canada, Maya was a Research Associate at the Regional Plan Association in New York City.

Maya has a B.A. in Urban Studies from Vassar College. She currently lives in Toronto with her husband. Maya loves biking around Toronto and exploring Ontario on backcountry canoe trips.

Simon Brandler is Director of Public Policy Innovation at Sidewalk Labs, where he thinks about how smart urban policy can foster innovation, empower communities, and improve quality of life.

Prior to coming to Sidewalk, Simon served as Senior Advisor and Special Counsel at the New York State Office of the Attorney General, where he participated in many of the agency’s most technically complex, highest profile, and most successful strategic policy initiatives. These included major regulatory and enforcement actions involving technology and emerging businesses, from broadband delivery to the sharing economy. As an attorney, Simon has litigated complex commercial matters in private practice and prosecuted significant public corruption cases. Earlier in his career, Simon developed a deep understanding of public policy and communications as a legislative advisor in the United States Senate, as a political speechwriter, and as a policy and communications advisor to a statewide political party.

Simon graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in history. He earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was recognized as a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar in his final year. He is unusually proud of his three years rolling for the neighborhood bocce team, “Inglorious Bocce.” Simon was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife and twin sons.

Stuart Bridgett is an Associate Director of Thermal Systems at Sidewalk Labs, where he currently supports the Sustainability team with MEP Engineering. His background as a mechanical engineer and a multidisciplinary design project manager has helped him develop diverse experiences across sectors in the United States and Asia — though he is always looking for the most energy efficient path forward.

Stuart is originally from the Isle of Wight in England. He currently lives in Sunset Park, Brooklyn with his partner Krissa, son Alex, and small neurotic dog, Nano.

John Brodhead is Director of Policy and Strategy at Sidewalk Labs and is based in Toronto.

John comes to Sidewalk after a varied career in government and the not-for-profit sector, most recently serving as Chief of Staff to the Canadian Minister of Indigenous Services. He previously served as Chief of Staff to the Canadian Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, as Executive Director of Evergreen CityWorks, as Deputy Chief of Staff for the Premier of Ontario, and as a Vice President at Metrolinx.

John has three children—aged seven, six, and four—and a spouse who is better than him in every imaginable way. Fun fact: John grew up on a farm outside of Ottawa and ran a thriving organic egg business until the age of 8.

Kia Burke is a Senior Administrative Assistant at Sidewalk Labs. She has worked as an Executive Assistant to the CFO at UnionTheological Seminary and prior to Union was the Executive Assistant to the CFO at Olympus Capital Asia.

She currently resides in Flushing, Queens: the ultimate foodies dream.

Laura Capucilli is the Chief of Staff to the President at Sidewalk Labs, having previously worked in New York City government as an Urban Fellow turned Policy Advisor for City Hall’s operations team.Following the end of the Bloomberg administration, Laura served as a project manager on the renovation and repositioning of the New York Public Library’s flagship branch at Bryant Park.

Laura graduated from the University of Chicago with a degree in Public Policy and a Minor in Human Rights. She recently earned an MBA from NYU Stern. While at Stern, Laura worked with the Marron Institute’s Urbanization Project on a sustainable development plan for a city in central Ethiopia and at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts with its international department.

Josh Chappell is a Senior Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Most recently, Josh built a new engineering team to tackle scaling and business operations challenges at a growing startup. He also built a machine learning e-commerce platform, which was definitely the reason why the items in your shopping cart were 4 cents more expensive than when you added them the day before. In the decade prior to this, Josh worked at a number of startups and companies in every domain imaginable — ranging from EdTech to risk management to HCM.

Josh completed a B.S. in computer information systems from the University of South Carolina (Go Gamecocks!). On the weekends, Josh enjoys building robots, tending to his plants (also, using robots), and exercising his very healthy love for Liverpool Football Club.

Jenny Chen is a Data Scientist at Sidewalk Labs. She is passionate about studying sustainable built-environment through computational approaches. Before joining Sidewalk Labs, Jenny worked for the U.S. Department of Energy and the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, where she focused on zero-energy buildings and sustainable urban development. Her research interests include system modeling, advanced control, and various applications of AI in the built environment.

Jennie has earned three degrees from Harvard University and served as a teaching fellow for two data science courses. In her spare time, Jenny enjoys walking in nature, playing with cute animals, and exploring local foods.

Betty is a Computational Design Associate at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, she worked at SOM (New York) and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture with a focus on computational design and analysis for architectural and urban scale projects.

Betty received a BArch from RPI and studies MAUD and MDes Technology at Harvard GSD. Her dissertation at the GSD experiments with a system design for on-demand urban programs to revitalize underutilized urban spaces.

Betty is always open to delicious Japanese food and great coffee.

Rebecca Craft is the Director of Sustainability – Electrification at Sidewalk Labs. She owns a consulting firm that provides advice primarily to investors, energy efficiency contractors, and energy service companies on distributed energy resources, regulatory strategy, cleantech, and efficiency and demand side management. At Sidewalk, she has primarily worked on the Advanced Power Grid and affordable electrification. Prior to consulting, Rebecca started out her career as a lawyer and worked on large energy and infrastructure deals. She has worked in the broad energy field ever since (with a small detour into finance).

Rebecca loves being in the outdoors. She grew up canoeing and hiking in upstate New York and playing a lot of tennis. She has enjoyed working in exciting cities — first Philadelphia and now New York — because she gets to stay active, as well as travel widely and get to other beautiful places.

Dillon is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. He is driven to use policy and technology to build a more sustainable and equitable society. Prior to Sidewalk, Dillon built zero-emission self-driving cars at GM Cruise, specializing in robotic planning and prediction. He also managed a San Francisco program providing free internet to thousands of people experiencing homelessness at a nonprofit called ShelterTech. Before that, he worked at Microsoft, where he built large-scale distributed systems.

Dillon studied computer science at Harvard College. A proud native of San Diego, Dillon grew up eating tacos and grooving to hip-hop — all of which he still tries to do in New York City, his sixth city to call home.

Alyssa Harvey Dawson is General Counsel and Head of Legal, Privacy and Data Governance, at Sidewalk Labs. Before joining Sidewalk, Alyssa was a Vice President in Legal at Harman International Industries, the audio and connected car company. While at Harman, Alyssa managed a global team of attorneys, paralegals, and technology specialists and developed the global IP strategy, working closely with Harman’s corporate technology office and business divisions. As part of the IP strategy, she established a revenue-generating business segment focused on deriving additional value from Harman’s many technologies, brands and patents.

Prior to Harman, Alyssa was at Netflix, where she worked with the business and product development teams on putting in place the strategy and complex licensing agreements that put Netflix on every major consumer electronics device. She also developed the IP strategy, focusing on strategic patenting and globalizing the company’s trademarks. Alyssa also worked at Autodesk, where she served as division counsel to multiple business units and lead counsel for sales and operations; led on several important acquisitions for the company; and advised on general corporate law, product marketing, copyright, privacy, open-source matters, and sales and distribution agreements.

Alyssa was in private practice for five years at the law firms of Latham & Watkins and Cooley Godward, and she worked on broadcast and communications deals, practiced before the FCC, did venture capital financings on both the company and VC side, and worked on securities filings for public companies.

Alyssa earned her undergraduate degree with honors from the Honors College at Michigan State University and her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, where she graduated cum laude and was an editor on the Georgetown Law Journal. Alyssa has served on the Advisory Board for the Women, Influence and Power in Law conference, has played an active role in ChIPs, serves on the Advisory Board for the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law, and is a member of the Michigan State University Honors College Alumni Board.

Born in Gary, Indiana, Alyssa grew up in New Jersey and now lives in Connecticut with her husband and son. She enjoys family bike rides, teaching her son card games, watching him play baseball and soccer, cheering on the Raiders, and getting beat at chess (on occasion) by her son.

Chrystal Dean is the Associate Director, Public Programming and is based in Toronto. She has been working in and alongside communities for over a decade.

Since moving to Toronto in 2012, Chrystal has focused her efforts on organizations and initiatives working to empower people and organizations to create a more equitable and just city. As WorldPride Manager for Pride Toronto, she steered one of the largest international events ever hosted in Toronto, with unprecedented city-wide partnerships and programming, and over 2 million attendees. Most recently, she was Executive Director of the Self-Help Resource Centre.

Chrystal has lived and worked in Australia, the UK, and Canada. She is passionate about equity, education, self-determination, social justice, and kindness.

Amrit Dhir is the Director of Technology Business Development at Sidewalk Labs. He is responsible for advancing the commercial value of Sidewalk’s technology products to achieve the greatest possible impact on urban life. He brings to this role close to a decade of experience leading new business development and operations for some of Alphabet’s most innovative products and groundbreaking technologies: projects in Google Research and AI; X (formerly Google X); Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences); and Google Arts & Culture. He also built up the Global Operations and Connections functions for Google for Startups, roles through which he empowered external innovators and launched a network of physical spaces for entrepreneurs in seven cities across three continents.

Amrit received his JD from Harvard Law School, his MA in Media Culture from Maastricht University, and his BA in International Studies from Emory University. Originally from Los Angeles, he has managed to call close to a dozen cities “home” along the way to his current quarters in New York City. He is additionally a regular volunteer, an angel investor, a metalhead, an aimless writer, a dabbler in languages (bonus points if you can guess which ones), the Hakeem Olajuwon of fantasy sports, and walking.

Pino Di Mascio is Director of Planning at Sidewalk Labs. In his role, Pino brings with him significant experience in master planning, land-use studies, planning and development analysis, entitlements, and policy development. His work has focused on managing and directing complex projects of various scales. With over 24 years of experience, Pino comes to Sidewalk Labs from Urban Strategies, where as a Partner he helped build what is one of the world’s leading planning and design firms.

Pino has worked with numerous municipalities, developers, institutions, and public-sector land owners and agencies, and is constantly working with such groups to leverage and manage significant land assets to achieve public policy objectives. Pino is a great collaborator, and is always seeking new solutions to complex challenges.

Residing in Toronto’s Roncesvalles Village with his wife and two kids, Pino can regularly be found on long early morning walks with his dog Kiwi in High Park or Sunnyside Beach. And while he loves the chaos of a full and active home, he would be the first to tell you that bringing home a rabbit may not be a wise decision.

Alyssa is an Associate of Business/Product Development at Sidewalk Labs. A lifelong advocate for social infrastructure, Alyssa draws on her experiences building communities, organizations, and thoughtful technology to improve quality of life for urban residents through civic innovation.

Prior to Sidewalk Labs, Alyssa was a Product Manager at Levelset, a New Orleans-based software startup that empowers fair payment in the construction industry. In this role, she discovered the potential for product development to solve complex problems in systems burdened by inequality, and cut her teeth scaling a high-growth company. Alyssa’s time in New Orleans was part of her Venture for America fellowship, a program for new graduates to help create economic opportunity in American cities that have emerging entrepreneurial ecosystems. Her experiences in New Orleans and other great cities inspires her to build human-centered technology that scales solutions for social justice, environmental sustainability, and thriving communities.

Alyssa studied politics at the University of Virginia, where she was on the founding team for HackCville, a premiere community, education organization, and space for student entrepreneurs. She enjoys event planning, the great outdoors, and loves to keep moving – whether on trails, trains, bikes, or a yoga mat.

Chris Edmonds is a Senior Associate, Sustainability at Sidewalk Labs. His background is in energy, sustainability, and climate change and he has implementation experience ranging from individual building sites to state legislation.

Prior to this role he worked as a sustainability consultant at WSP Built Ecology, helping clients design and implement sustainability, health, and resilience strategies in the built environment. His projects ranged from certifying green buildings as small as 5,000 SF to developing energy master plans for district scale communities as large as 14 million SF. He has also worked with former Colorado Governor Bill Ritter Jr. at the Center for the New Energy Economy on state policy to facilitate renewable energy, energy efficiency, and advanced transportation legislation.

Chris graduated with honors from Colorado College with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Studio Art. Originally from Portland, OR, he now lives in Brooklyn and still loves food coops, community gardens, cyclocross, and being above treeline.

Amanda Finney is an Associate Director of Policy and Communications at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Amanda was the National Deputy Women’s Outreach Director for the Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign. Prior to the campaign, Amanda worked as a Communications Marketing Manager at Microsoft, where she created digital campaigns to highlight the culture of the company through employee voices.

Additionally, Amanda worked as a digital correspondent for Hillary for America, maintaining a dialogue with the American people around issues important to the election. Amanda began her career as a community organizer in Virginia during President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign. With experience in the public and private sector, her work remains centered around brand integrity and developing relationships to ensure messaging is elevated to constituents and stakeholders through digital storytelling and social media. Previously, Amanda taught first grade in New Orleans.

Amanda has a M.A. from Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University and a B.A. in English from Wake Forest University. She is an advocate of the arts and always has tickets to Broadway, as she strongly believes the show must go on.

Zach Fisher is an Associate Director of IT Management at Sidewalk Labs. He started his career in technology at Creative Drive, where he was responsible for developing and managing the Mac infrastructure, as well as supporting the New York office with a range of system administration tasks from printers to network deployments. After Creative Drive, Zach managed Macs and endpoint security at Intersection and Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to his career in technology, Zach was a professional chef at restaurants like Landmarc, Aquavit, Locanda Verde, and ABC Kitchen. He grew up in NYC and went to boarding school in New Hampshire. He studied Art History and Computer Animation at Syracuse University.

Jaison George is Associate, Corporate Development at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, he worked at The Blackstone Group. In this role, he focused primarily on Retail, Multifamily, and Canadian Industrial Real Estate Investments.

Jaison was born and raised in Detroit. He graduated from Wayne State University with degrees in Finance and Computer Science,. In his spare time, Jaison enjoys reading, competing in memory competitions, and playing volleyball.

Noah is a Senior Hardware Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk, Noah was an engineer at Coord, developing solutions for urban mobility and curb insights. Before Coord, Noah spent three years as a hardware engineer at MakerBot working on everything electrical, including the electronics for their new Method printer.

Noah completed his B.S. in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, and M.S. in Electrical Engineering, at Johns Hopkins University. As a graduate student, he spent many a happy hour in an underground lab at the FDA, writing high-performance CUDA code to image neural implants.

When he’s not at work, he’s often still making work for himself with various electronics projects. Noah enjoys long hikes, dabbling in ham radio, and books of all kinds.

Emma Gruber is Associate, Finance at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk, Emma worked for General Motors, where she was a part of their rotational leadership development program. She worked across multiple functions, including IT, Engineering, and Design, and partnered with the business units to align their organizational needs with the company’s financial objectives. She also worked in the product development space, where she provided critical cost analysis for several vehicle programs, including the next generation Corvette. Emma is passionate about the future of mobility and excited to see how technology will continue to influence the automotive industry.

Emma graduated from Duke University, where she studied Economics and Psychology. She expanded her studies through involvement with several organizations both on and off campus, including a summer working for the Social Entrepreneur Corps in Guatemala. Originally from Dallas, she has spent the past two years living in downtown Detroit and acclimating to Michigan winters. When the weather is nice, Emma enjoys running outside and attending local sports games. She is excited to live in New York and explore her new city.

Lily Huang is an Associate Director of Building Innovations at Sidewalk Labs. Her work will help shape the strategy, design, and planning to create affordable, flexible, and sustainable buildings. Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Lily has spent a decade honing her craft as an architect, practicing in offices in Shanghai, Beijing, Berlin, and Toronto. Most recently at KPMB Architects in Toronto, she has had the opportunity to lead the design of award-winning projects that ranges from private to public, institutional to commercial, large scale complex urban design projects to commercial office renovations. In all her work, Lily is passionate about design as creative problem solving, particularly solutions that have positive social impact.

Lily holds a Master in Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and received her Honors Bachelor of Arts degree with a Specialist in Architecture from the University of Toronto. Lily enjoys the beach, the multitude of parks, and ravines that Toronto’s east side has to offer and can often be found wandering the neighborhood with her husband and two children. Despite being an avid urbanite, she loves camping and is an aspiring backcountry camper. She is active in her community, serving as a leader and volunteer in her church and enjoys designing and teaching crafts at children’s summer camp.

Carrie Denning Jackson is a Director on the Development team at Sidewalk Labs, where she is responsible for the ground floor development and innovation strategy. Prior to this role, Carrie spent a year in Toronto launching Sidewalk’s experimental lab and workspace, 307, and she originally joined Sidewalk as the Chief of Staff, where she oversaw much of the company’s growth from the mid-teens to 100 plus.

Before Sidewalk Labs, Carrie was the San Francisco Curator and Director of Strategy and Partnerships for the art-tech collective, Shared_Studios. Carrie has led teams and shaped projects including three years with IBM’s Smarter Cities team and a year-long fellowship with the Environmental Defense Fund. She’s conducted research for a wide range of think tanks and organizations, including the Brookings Institution, Bloomberg Associates, San Francisco Planning and Urban Research, and Bombay First. She also spent time during her MBA at China Vanke, China’s largest residential real estate developer.

Carrie has a BA, MA, and MBA from Stanford University.

Shaina Doar is Head of Sidewalk Urban Systems at Sidewalk Labs. Most recently, Shaina served as the Chief of Staff to the Mayor’s Economic Council under Mayor Rahm Emanuel in Chicago. In this role, she set the city’s economic development agenda and managed fiscal policy. Prior to her role in the Mayor’s Office, Shaina was the Director of the Plan for Economic Growth and Jobs, Mayor Emanuel’s economic development plan for the City of Chicago.

Before working with the City of Chicago, Shaina was an Engagement Manager in McKinsey & Company’s Chicago office. As a Public Sector Fellow, she led work in the public and social sector offices on a variety of strategic and reform topics including economic development, higher education, and infrastructure.

She holds an MBA from Northwestern University and a B.S. from the University of Notre Dame. Shaina lives in Chicago with her husband and two daughters. She enjoys traveling, running, and skiing, and is proud of her Minnesota heritage.

Cara is an Associate Director, Project Management at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Cara was based in Copenhagen with ReD Associates, a consulting firm that applies social science methods like ethnography to the business world. At ReD, Cara managed and worked on long-term strategy projects for a diverse spread of clients, ranging from a major toy company to a global consumer electronics manufacturer. She is also a Young Explorer for National Geographic, and took a sabbatical from work to study the post-war redevelopment of Sarajevo.

Cara graduated from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where she concentrated on urban studies. She is a native New Yorker with newfound biking skills and a strong affinity for Danish design.

Katherine is an Associate, Policy and Communications at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk Labs, Katherine was the Head of Narrative Development at LRC, a communications firm based in Toronto. In this role, she crafted narratives for organizations to determine their story and drive their strategic communications plans.

Her career spans government and politics. Before leaving the Government of Ontario, Katherine served as the Legislative Assistant and Issues Manager for the Ministry of Economic Development and Growth, where she was responsible for passing legislation and advancing the Reducing Red Tape legislative agenda. Additionally, she led strategy for issues management and strategic communications for sensitive and contentious issues for Ontario’s economy. Katherine also previously served as an Operations Assistant at the Ministry of Energy, where she helped connect Ontario’s remote First Nations communities to Ontario’s electricity grid and worked on both the Ontario Fair Hydro Plan and the 2017 Long-Term Energy plan.

Katherine has lived in Toronto for the past three years and is a proud Toronto Raptors bandwagon fan. She is originally from Essex County in Southwestern Ontario, where she grew up on a family farm and ran a squash stand when she was 11. She graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor’s degree in History and a double major in Political Science.

Jan is Head of Talent at Sidewalk Labs.

Before joining Sidewalk, Jan built the recruiting function at Oscar Insurance, with hundreds of hires during his tenure. He has recruited for growth companies in Germany and the U.K. before coming to NYC in 2014.

Originally from Germany, Jan studied International Affairs in Switzerland. He enjoys photography and travel, and lives in Brooklyn with his wife.

Ben Funk is a Senior Associate, Housing at Sidewalk Labs, where he focuses specifically on SUD’s housing programs and innovations. Ben’s professional background centers on creating innovative solutions that leverage the best of the public and private sectors. He began his career as a consultant with Monitor Deloitte, first helping Fortune 100 companies commercialize new products and businesses, and then specializing within the firm’s social impact group, the Monitor Institute, to help foundations, government agencies, and nonprofits measure, improve, and scale their impact around the world. With the Institute, Ben brought together leaders from the public and private sectors, working directly with the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce to define global impact measurement guidelines and with The Rockefeller Foundation to accelerate and scale impact organizations, among others.

Following his time in consulting, Ben moved to Nairobi to work at a for-profit, non-profit hybrid organization, bringing sanitation solutions to informal settlements in dense urban environments. There, he helped orchestrate a strategic overhaul to focus and grow both sides of the organization.

Ben holds a BS from NYU, an MBA from MIT, and an MPA from Harvard. As a former employee of the National Park Service, Ben loves getting lost in the woods — just as much as he does getting lost in New York City.

Taylor K. Gesner (TK) is the Senior Office Manager of 307, based in Toronto. TK is an award-winning programmer/curator, community engagement specialist, public art project manager, independent music producer/DJ, and arts advocate. Equipped with an extensive knowledge of music and the arts, and a decade-plus career as a well-respected DJ/producer, TK has been applying his broad range of cultural sensibilities to roles all around Toronto for the past decade.

From large-scale fine arts festivals (Nuit Blanche; Pride Toronto; WorldPride 2014 Toronto), national and institutional public art campaigns (LandMarks 2017; Metrolinx) to community-based grassroots events (Nuit Rose; “Music in the Park”), TK’s been taking deep cleansing breaths and learning from his own, and others’, mistakes for over a decade, and now shares those experiences in workshops across the country.

When he’s not working in culture around the city, you might find TK crate digging for rare EPs for a loft jam, cycling on the Toronto Islands, or curled up with his cat.

Michelle Ha Tucker is Director of Design at Sidewalk Labs. Originally trained as an architect, she aims to develop the practice at the intersection of public sector innovation, urban design, and technology. She most recently led the design team at Flux.io, a software startup incubated inside of Google[x] that helps architects design and build more efficiently.

Prior to Flux, Michelle was a director at IDEO, guiding user-centered design teams and establishing a public sector portfolio of work in the Chicago office. Her clients have included the Chicago Public Libraries, American Express, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the TSA.

She is actively involved in arts and design education–she’s served on the board of the Hyde Park Art Center and spent a year reimagining design curriculum at RISD. She holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard and degrees in Architecture and Management from MIT. Originally from the Bay Area, she’s excited to explore all that NYC and Toronto has to offer with her husband and young daughter.

Abby Harrill is Finance Associate at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk she worked for GE Digital as a Finance Operations Manager, building out the company’s financial operations for its new software venture. She graduated from GE’s financial management program, where she worked on the disposition of GE Capital both in investor relations and treasury.

Abby studied finance and consulting at UNC Chapel Hill. Born and raised in North Carolina, she cheers for both the Tar Heels and the Carolina Panthers. New York City is her sixth move in 4 years so she’s happy to be back on the East coast and stay awhile. She currently resides in West Village and is eating up the New York culinary scene.

Amelia (Meli) Harvey is a Senior Computational Designer at Sidewalk Labs. Meli’s passion lies at the intersection of land use, mobility, and urban development, and how these topics relate to our most pressing environmental and resiliency challenges.

Meli brings to the team a diverse background spanning art, design, policy, and software engineering. Past experiences include working as a computational designer at WeWork, a digital fabrication specialist for the sculptor Diana Al-Hadid, a designer at Bjarke Ingels Group architects (BIG), a GIS specialist at the Regional Plan Association (RPA).

Her education includes a Master in City Planning from MIT and a Bachelor of Architecture at Syracuse University. She has taught the course Algorithms and Urbanism at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). She has also contributed to academic journals such as Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD), and peer reviewed for Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD).

Saif Haobsh is a Computational Designer of Customer Success at Sidewalk Labs. With a background in architecture, he is dedicated to addressing societal challenges at the interface of human behavior and the built environment.

Prior to Sidewalk, Saif worked at Amazon R+D exploring spatial design for conversational systems and at Certain Measures leveraging computer vision for urban analytics. As an architect at AECOM Abu Dhabi, he designed concepts for high-rise towers, district-scale developments, and cultural landmarks with a focus on applied computational methods.

Saif is a graduate of the Master in Design Engineering program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and Engineering and Applied Sciences and holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. After stints in Amman, Abu Dhabi, Seattle, and Boston, he is excited to return to NYC to continue his passion for ceramics, filmmaking, and music composition.

Shaun Harris is the Director of Design at Sidewalk Labs. He is a practitioner of human centered design and comes with extensive experience leading vision, strategy, and concepts for major brands including: Nike, PepsiCo, Sanofi, IHG, Uber, Marriott International and Disney. While serving lead roles on the client, agency, and consulting side of the equation, he has created a diverse set of solutions across the experience spectrum including: space/environment, service + package design, digital retail, and enterprise platforms.

Before Sidewalk, Shaun was the VP, Global Head of Experience + Service Design at MetLife and part of the executive team that is transforming MetLife into a brand of human-centred service offerings. Prior to that he was ECD, Head of Experience Strategy at R/GA and responsible for developing the broader design practice across the agency. For over three years, Shaun was a lead on the Nike account with deep focus on digital brand, retail, and service experiences. Key projects focused on the future experience of urban runners, retail flagships, and digital product customization.

In 2005, he earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology with a focus on social exchange theory and norms of reciprocity. He continues to apply his love for human behavior by anchoring all solutions with the needs and experiences that matter most to customers.

Shaun is a native of Los Angeles and carries a US and Canadian passport on account of his family’s Montreal roots. He loves any color pallet resembling the early 80s, with particular affection for Volvo’s “Chinese Hot Mustard Yellow”. He played competitive tennis as a kid and has [just] recently grown-out of wearing tennis vests off the court. He lives at the bottom of the LES and is often found in The Sill explaining why it’s not his fault that his plants keep dying. And despite the odds against him, he remains determined to master the use and proper occasion for the semi-colon.

Brian Ho is a Senior Design Lead at Sidewalk Labs. As an interdisciplinary designer with a background in architecture, Brian focuses on making both the built environment and urban technology better for people.

Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Brian graduated from the Master in Design Engineering program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. His portfolio includes developing an augmented reality interface for building performance at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, improving accessibility with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, designing a public environmental center at Leroy Street Studio in NYC, and planning post-Hurricane Katrina land use at Waggonner & Ball Architects. Brian received a B.A. in Architecture from Yale University, spent a year at Columbia University’s M.Arch program, and is a LEED AP BD+C professional.

In his spare time, Brian enjoys running, biking, climbing, and the pursuit of good coffee.

David Huang is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to working at Sidewalk Labs, he held a variety of internship positions at different companies. Some of his most recent roles included developing augmented reality applications for the HoloLens at Microsoft and leveraging data engineering to improve healthcare at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.

David grew up in Ottawa, Canada and graduated with a BaSC in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Outside of work, he enjoys reading fantasy fiction and learning new languages. He also aspires to become a mixologist.

Okalo Ikhena is the Director of Product Management for Sidewalk Labs. Before Sidewalk, Okalo was a Product Manager at Google for 4 years, launching new products and businesses. As the Product Management Client Lead at YouTube TV, he led product launches across tablet, TV and Google Assistant platforms. At the Google Store, he led the product launch and growth of its new e-commerce platform across 25 countries and 50 languages. Most recently, he led product management and user experience design at Ally, a startup within Google’s Area 120 focused on connecting emerging markets startups with expertise and funding. Prior to Google, he spent 4 years at Microsoft, building out mobile search experiences (local, maps, personalization) across iOS, Android, and mobile web platforms.

Okalo holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he served on the boards of the Africa Business Club and Design Club, as well as founded the Africa Business Conference New Venture Competition. He earned his BSc. in Electrical Engineering, with honors, from Florida Institute of Technology.

Besides his passion for improving quality of life in cities, Okalo explores urban futurism as an amateur screenwriter in his free time. Originally from Nigeria, New York is his 7th city to call home, and he is looking forward to exploring all that it has to offer.

Eric Jaffe is Editorial Director of Sidewalk Labs.

He previously served as New York Bureau Chief for CityLab, The Atlantic’s site devoted to urban life, where his own writing focused on transportation policy and the science of cities. In 2014 he edited a year-long series called the Future of Transportation, which explored what tomorrow will hold for metro area mobility.

Eric has contributed to many publications as a freelancer, including Fast Company, where he wrote a regular Co.Design column called Evidence. He’s also the author of two books, including The King’s Best Highway (Scribner, 2010), a social history of U.S. transportation.

Eric holds a BA from the University of Michigan and an MS in journalism from Columbia University. Originally from Washington, D.C., he’s lived in New York since 2008, and no longer knows if he’s a Washingtonian or a New Yorker.

Nick is a Senior Creative Technologist at Sidewalk Labs.

Before joining Sidewalk, he worked at Google Creative Lab helping to concept & prototype new product ideas for Google, with a research focus in Translate. Originally from California, Nick loves woodworking, playing soccer & tennis, being in the outdoors & traveling.

Jack is a Senior Associate, Cost Estimator at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk Labs, Jack was a Project Controls Manager for Turner & Townsend in San Francisco working on Google ground up development projects helping to manage, forecast, and report costs at all levels. Jack was also responsible for providing analysis and estimating for Google across their construction portfolio to review and develop construction costs and budgets.

Before Google, Jack worked as a Quantity Surveyor for Morgan Sindall in the United Kingdom across Commercial, Educational, and Governmental sectors. On the contractor side, Jack was responsible for the overall management of the project costs, commercial input to design and operational matters, subcontract package procurement and management, risk and value management, contract change control, and the development and implementation of complex cost work breakdown structures linked to schedule activities for cost validation.

Jack has a B.Sc in Quantity Surveying & Commercial Management from Loughborough University and is an Associate Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Jack is an avid fan of all sports played in the U.S. and Canada without actually supporting a team and is hoping (maybe) one from Toronto convinces him to commit!

Mya is an Executive Assistant to Dan Doctoroff. Prior to Sidewalk, Mya worked as an executive assistant and personal assistant for various companies over the past ten years, such as Ralph Lauren. She also worked in corporate aviation for NetJets as a Gulfstream flight attendant, account manager, and sales assistant.

Mya was born and raised in Colorado and graduated from Colorado State University. She also spent time in California and Texas before moving to NYC in 2005 with her two children. Some of her favorite pastimes include international travel, golf, tennis, meditation, and yoga. As a practitioner of various lineages of meditation, she is currently working on her Meditation Teacher certification with the intention of one day sharing her practice and the benefits with others.

Annie Koo is an Associate Director of Housing at Sidewalk Labs, where she is responsible for Sidewalk’s housing affordability and innovation strategy.

Prior to Sidewalk, Annie was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey, where she served public and private sector clients on strategy and enterprise transformations. She previously worked at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development in the Bloomberg Administration, where she held roles in strategic planning and the executive office. She was also a Fulbright Fellow in Singapore focused on housing and urban development.

Annie holds a BA in Architectural Studies from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She is originally from McAllen, Texas and lives with her husband in New York City, where you can often find them on (yet another) bike adventure.

Mark is the Associate Director of Infrastructure Delivery at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Mark worked for FivePoint Communities in San Francisco, where he managed land development programs on large, mixed-use master developments and developed a passion for applying emerging technologies to large-scale infrastructure systems. Mark’s background in urban infrastructure development covers the spectrum from planning and entitlement through construction and operations. Before working in land development, Mark worked in civil construction where he had many experiences including building water harvesting systems in rural Guatemala, imploding high rise buildings in New Zealand, and managing large federal infrastructure projects in the United States.

Mark is originally from Minnesota but spent five years in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two sons. He has a BCE in Civil Engineering with a minor in Construction Management from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities and continues to learn every day. When not on the project site or chasing his two sons, you will find Mark exploring the local microbreweries, backpacking in the summer, or snowboarding in the winter.

Andy Ma is Senior Associate, Procurement at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Andy served as the Strategy Manager at Rogers Communications, where he helped drive organizational-wide cost transformation and working capital optimization initiatives.

In addition, he was a formal management consultant at Deloitte’s Strategy and Operation practice supporting large size Canadian and U.S. clients in both top-line improvement and bottom line reduction.

Andy held a Master of Management degree from McGill University and is a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

In his spare time, Andy is an outdoor hiking lover. He has hiked Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Annapurna Base Camp trail in Nepal, and Santa Cruz trail in Peru. More importantly, he is a foodie constantly exploring the restaurants landscape wherever he travels to.

Michael Malone is an Associate Director of Finance for Payroll and Global Mobility at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk, he worked at a range of industries from startups to global brands. Most recently, he worked with LinkedIn and Twitter. Throughout his career, Michael implemented a global REIT, transitioned 2 companies through to IPO, ran his own payroll business for over 5 years, implemented over 250 payroll systems conversions, and prepared Global RFP for Time & Attendance.

Michael is originally from Ireland and studied Physics at Trinity College, Dublin. He now lives in San Francisco with his partner and two cats, Calvin and Chloe. He is currently intrigued with learning how to make things. He also enjoys music, film, mixology, architecture, landscaping, photography, travel, hiking, and skiing.

Jorge Manrique Charro is an Associate Director on the Investments team at Sidewalk Labs, based in the Toronto office.

Jorge previously worked on real estate investments, financings, and disposals at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, based in the United Arab Emirates. Before that, Jorge lived in London for 6 years, where he worked in the acquisitions and real estate development team at Tishman Speyer.

Jorge is excited to explore his new home, Toronto, with his wife and two young children. In his spare time, he loves trail running and cycling.

Andrew Miller is Associate Director, Mobility at Sidewalk Labs. His background is in transit policy, transit planning, and public finance.

As a Strategic Leader with the City of Mississauga, he led the delivery of Dundas Connects, a master plan for rapid transit, intensified urban development, and an improved public realm for Dundas Street. For this work, he won the City’s 2017 Excellence in Project Management Award – Project Lead. Previously, Andrew worked for the Ontario Public Service in various positions at the Ministries of Infrastructure, Finance, and Transportation; he was most recently head of the Municipal Transit Policy Office.

Andrew holds a B.A. from McGill University, an M.A. from Yale University, and a Ph.D from Johns Hopkins University. CBC Radio referred to him as a leading thinker on the subject of municipal finance reform. He’s also fun at parties.

Amina Mohamed is the 307 Associate in Communications, Programming, and Engagement at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk, she worked at the intersection of policy, academia, and activism for a number of organizations including the City of Toronto, the Tessellate Institute, and the NDP.

Amina studied French, English, and Comparative literature at the University of Toronto. Her research specialized in the movements of cultures and ethnicities in major cities, and how municipalities grow to accommodate changing demographics.

As a lifetime resident of Toronto, Amina also specializes in the shift in city services, public funding, and TTC service east of Victoria Park beginning with Toronto’s 1999 amalgamation. In her free time, you can find her moderating discussions on active citizenship and representative politics, two subjects about which she is extremely passionate.

Connor Mundy is Associate, Corporate Development at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, he worked on the real estate acquisitions team at Blackstone.

Connor graduated from the University of Michigan with a BBA. In his spare time, he likes spending time outdoors and exploring NYC via Citi Bike.

Justin is an Office Manager at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Justin received his Master’s in International Affairs from The New School in New York City, and served two years in the Peace Corps in Tanzania teaching English to secondary school students.

Originally from Buffalo, New York, Justin received his B.A. from SUNY Binghamton in Philosophy. In his free time, Justin enjoys running with his dog, reading about history, and cooking.

Michael is Senior Advisor at Sidewalk Labs. Michael is also the founder of Partners Path Capital, a multifamily investment office that focuses on real estate and specialty private equity transactions. Prior to Partners Path, Michael was Senior Vice President of Development and Business Affairs for the Tampa Bay Rays, where he was part of a core management team that turned around what had been one of the most moribund franchises in professional sports.

Michael previously worked in Mayor Bloomberg’s office as a senior advisor to the New York City Deputy Mayor for Economic Development. In that capacity, he managed relations between the Mayor’s Office and the city’s Economic Development Corporation, coordinated area-wide planning and economic development initiatives through the five boroughs, and served as the city’s point person for the development of the new Yankee Stadium, CitiField, and the Barclays Center.

Before joining the Bloomberg Administration, Michael was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company where he focused on addressing both strategic and operating issues for media and telecommunications firms.

Michael received his BA in Political Science and Urban Studies from Brown University and his JD from Harvard Law School. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.

Tim Kau is the Associate Director of Visual Design at Sidewalk Labs.

Tim spent 12 years in the advertising industry as a visual designer, working with clients including Nike, Chase, Citi, and Coca-Cola.

Tim graduated with honors from UC Berkeley, where he bought his first pair of Birkenstocks. Today, he prefers to wear Converse or Vans.  He currently lives in NYC with his wife Grace, two sons Jonah and Isaiah, and puppy Chuy.

Ariel Kennan is the Director of Civic Innovation at Sidewalk Labs, where draws upon her experience in multidisciplinary design and technology to collaborate with community, government, and industry partners to design service experiences, craft strategy, and create and source digital tools.

Before Sidewalk, Ariel served the New York City Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity as Director of Design and Product. In that role, she led the design and development of a portfolio of digital products and founded the nation’s first municipal service design studio dedicated to making public services for low-income residents as effective and accessible as possible. Her time in government was inspired through fellowships with Code for America and the Center for Urban Pedagogy, where she discovered the potential for design in the public sector. Ariel previously designed and produced experiences for the built environment, ranging from intimate immersive media to expansive buildings. She holds a BFA in Integrated Design from Parsons School of Design.

Originally from Arizona, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband. She loves riding bikes and cooking delicious meals.

Tom is Director, Hardware Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk Labs, Tom was founder and CEO of ReFactory, a design consultancy and electronics manufacturing firm. Located in Brooklyn, New York, ReFactory helped small companies and startups design, prototype, and manufacture electronic products.  ReFactory was born out of Tom’s experience with EnergyHub, the first company he co-founded, where as CTO and Director of Hardware Engineering, he led the development and manufacturing of an energy management ecosystem of connected devices.  Tom sat on EnergyHub’s Board of Directors up until its acquisition by Alarm.com.

Before Tom’s entrepreneurial endeavors, he was an Electrical Engineer at Honeybee Robotics, where he worked as the lead Electrical Engineer for the Sample Manipulation System, a critical subsystem of the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument, which continues to operate aboard the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars.  Tom earned his Bachelor of Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.

When Tom isn’t designing hardware, he loves spending time with his family and cooking overly complicated meals.  As a side project, he is creating an iPad-like toy for his toddler son that incorporates more external buttons, knobs, and lights than he’ll know what to do with.

Karim is Director of Buildings Innovation for Sidewalk Labs. He has spent his career in the design and construction world, most recently leading the global hotel innovation and design team at Marriott, where he launched the company’s first innovation lab/collaborative design space (The Underground). While at Marriott, he also led the LEED Volume Build program for hotels and launched Marriott’s global modular construction initiative.

Prior to joining Marriott, he managed Parsons Corporation’s South American engineering practice in Lima, Peru and earlier worked in Bechtel’s power and water resource group in the U.S. and overseas.

Karim served in the U.S. Peace Corps as the Western Regional engineer for The Honduran Ministry of Health working in sanitation and vaccine distribution. While he is not tinkering in his workshop, Karim can be found scoping out his next remote adventure.

Emily Kildow is the Associate Director of Sustainability at Sidewalk Labs. Before Sidewalk, she led sustainability for Google’s New York City campus.

Emily has spent 12 years in New York City as a pervasive advocate for sustainability, working on everything from the Brooklyn Botanical Visitor Center to sky-rise financial institutions. She has been active on USGBC local and national boards; worked on New York City’s Zero Waste Design Guidelines; served on the High Line Pneumatic Waste Advisory Board; co-chaired the Energy Metering and Operations working group for the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability; and won an Energy New York Award (ENYA) from the New York Energy Consumer Council.

Emily is originally from Colorado. She loves to travel, explore culture through cooking classes, and take advantage of New York City summertimes.

Laura is the Associate General Counsel at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Laura was a Vice President and Associate General Counsel at BuzzFeed, where she structured, negotiated, and executed financings, M&A transactions, and joint ventures. She also provided business and legal counseling on a wide variety of commercial matters, including technology, partnerships, and licensing agreements. Laura additionally managed corporate governance and employment matters and guided the company’s expansion into new international markets.

Prior to BuzzFeed, Laura worked at Gunderson Dettmer, where she represented domestic and international venture capital firms and startups in financings, tender offers, M&A transactions, and various corporate governance matters. Prior to that, Laura worked in corporate law at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York and Munich and at Hogan Lovells in Berlin and London.

Laura was born in Germany and grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia. She earned her undergraduate degree with honors from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and obtained her law degree from the NYU School of Law, where she was an editor on the Journal of International Law and Politics.

After many years in Manhattan, Laura is a Brooklyn convert and lives in Boerum Hill with her boyfriend. Laura loves reading, art, travel and taking advantage of all that New York has to offer.

Eugene Kim is an Associate Director of Privacy Data Governance at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to Sidewalk, Eugene served as Innovation Adoption Lead at Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. He previously worked at eHealth Ontario and Ontario’s office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, where he held roles in privacy and policy. He holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, and a JD from University of Ottawa.

In his spare time, Eugene enjoys reading, traveling, and exploring the neighbourhoods of Toronto with a hot cup of coffee in hand.

Joanna Lack is the Director of Inclusive Development at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Joanna was the Chief Performance Officer of the Camden City School District in Camden, NJ, where she oversaw data and accountability, assessment, and student supports. Prior to that, she was an Executive Director at the NYC Department of Education, where she created and led the academic policies and data systems team. Joanna began her career as a seventh-grade English teacher and Teach for America corps member in Compton, CA. She holds a B.A. from Brown University, and masters’ degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University and Loyola Marymount University.

Joanna is a proud native New Yorker who loves local and international exploring with her husband and two young daughters.

Micah Lasher is Head of Policy & Communications for Sidewalk Labs, where he oversees public policy and communications, drawing on his experiences at the intersection of government and technology.

Before joining Sidewalk, Micah served as Chief of Staff in the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York, where he helped run a staff of 1,800 people responsible for the state’s legal affairs and for legal advocacy on behalf of residents. In this role, he worked extensively on formulating new regulatory approaches to emerging technology and on issues related to data privacy and security.

Previously, Micah was Director of State Legislative Affairs for the City of New York under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, where he was responsible for advancing New York City’s comprehensive legislative agenda. Prior to his work at City Hall, Micah served as a top official in the New York City school system, an aide to Congressman Jerry Nadler, and a founding partner of KnickerbockerSKD, a strategic communications consultancy.

Micah serves on the boards of 
the Community Service Society, New York’s leading anti-poverty organization, and the Riverside
 Park Conservancy, as well as on the Leadership Council of Tech:NYC. He earned a BA in sociology from New York University. A lifelong New Yorker who finally broke down and learned how to drive in December 2016, Micah lives in Manhattan with his wife and three children.

Nicole LeBlanc is Director of Investments for Sidewalk Labs. Before joining Sidewalk, Nicole was a Director at BDC Capital, where she managed the seed stage investments and associated portfolio. She has over 10 years of experience as an investment professional, with a focus on early-stage financing opportunities and ecosystem development. Before joining BDC Nicole was the Director of Finance at NBIF, an East Coast seed fund, and held initial finance & operational roles in several early stage startups.

Nicole began her career as a staff accountant and later controller at Ganong Bros. Ltd., a family-run confectionery manufacturer. She holds a Chartered Professional Accountant designation and is a dynamic member of the Toronto start-up community.

When she is not supporting the tech ecosystem, Nicole can be found hiking off the beaten path and cheering on the Toronto Blue Jays, preferably when the dome is open.

Lana oversees projects and operations for the Policy and Communications team at Sidewalk Labs. She has held leadership, administrative, and operations roles across technology and higher education spaces. She has a passion for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion through her professional practice.

Prior to Sidewalk Labs, she managed operations at the College of Arts and Science Dean’s Office at New York University and worked on various committees and projects devoted to social justice and student success. She also served as an Associate in Apple Inc’s. Store Leader Program, where she developed and supported cross-functional teams and worked to improve the employee/client experience.

Lana graduated with honors from New York University with Bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and Art History, a minor in Music Production, and a Master’s degree in Higher Education Administration and Student Affairs. By night, she moonlights as a DJ and coordinates the instructor training programs at ((305)) Fitness. Lana has a fondness for travel, books, and Ron Swanson’s approach to life.

Corinna is an Associate Director of Mobility for Sidewalk Labs. Her background is in urban transportation, with a focus on catalyzing policy changes through new data and technology.

Prior to Sidewalk Labs, Corinna was a Product Manager and a City Lead at Coord, where she built API products for parking, tolling, routing, curb regulation, and bike-share systems. She has also worked with transit agencies in Boston and Singapore to pilot mobile technologies. Her previous professional experiences include Uber and Parsons Brinckerhoff.

Corinna holds an M.S. in Transportation and a Master in City Planning from MIT, as well as a B.A. from Yale. She currently resides in Toronto after spending a decade in the United States. As a child, she once fell into an uncovered sidewalk manhole in the darkness of night, so she has come full circle by working at Sidewalk Labs.

Jacqueline Lu is Director, Digital Integration at Sidewalk Labs. Before Sidewalk, Jackie served as Director of Data Analytics at NYC Parks, where she founded their first data science unit, helping to re-wire the agency’s ability to solve problems and improve service delivery through the lens of data.

A firm believer in the potential of open data to create new pathways for civic engagement and government innovation, Jackie built collaborations between agency staff and civic technologists that enabled the public and community members to develop insights from Parks’ open data sets. In her almost two decades of service at NYC Parks, Jackie also spearheaded the largest participatory street tree mapping project in U.S. history, culminating in a new digital platform for the collaborative management of NYC’s urban forest; established the New York City Urban Field Station, a research partnership with the U.S. Forest Service advancing the study of cities as socio-ecological systems to improve quality of life; and led multiple geospatial data projects that supported urban climate resiliency and sustainability initiatives.

Jackie is formally trained in ecology and conservation biology, with degrees from Princeton and Columbia Universities. After spending substantial amounts of time in near pristine wilderness during her undergraduate years, she decided the greatest potential for ensuring environmental sustainability lay in solving urban problems, and joined NYC Parks to help combat the invasive Asian longhorned beetle, a major threat to Northeastern forests in the U.S. and Canada.

Jackie grew up just outside Toronto and is excited to be back in the GTA. She enjoys spending her spare time outside exploring with her almost 2-year-old son.

Chris is Finance Director at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to Sidewalk, Chris has been working with Alphabet/Google since 2013. He was part of Deloitte’s CFO Program, which aimed to develop next generation finance leaders, and focused on finance org and op models following CFO transitions. He started his career working with local, state, and federal governments to execute large-scale infrastructure programs, ranging from disaster recovery programs in Louisiana, Colorado, and Texas, to the World Cup in Qatar.

Chris was born in Canada, and has two younger sisters. He has lived in New York City since 2005, and people thought he was crazy for studying Architecture and Economics as an undergrad. He currently resides in the Financial District with his partner Matthew and their two cats. He is passionate about the intersection of infrastructure, technology, and finance, and the impact it will have on communities and the people who live in them.

Drew Majkut is a Senior Associate, Talent at Sidewalk Labs. He builds Sidewalk Labs’ engineering, product, and design teams. He previously worked at Oscar, where he helped grow the company’s software engineering and risk departments.

Drew is originally from Massachusetts. He graduated from Connecticut College summa cum laude with a degree in International Relations and studied abroad at the Vietnam National University in Hanoi. A washed-up long distance runner, Drew loves carbs and gin and tonics. He lives on the Upper East Side with his fish.

Davina is the Head of People at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Davina was the Vice President of People Continuity for AB InBev North America, where she led recruiting, talent management, and leadership development for the US & Canada.

Passionate about cultures and understanding what makes people and teams tick, Davina started her career in talent management consulting at Right Management. During her time here, she worked with Fortune 500 companies to assess their teams and create succession and culture strategies to enable high performance.

Davina holds her B.A. from Emory University and her M.A. in Industrial & Organizational Psychology from New York University. A city girl at heart, Davina lives in Manhattan but will never turn down the opportunity to hop on a plane and travel somewhere new.

Amanda Meurer is a Software Engineer II at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk, Amanda worked at Earnest, a financial technology company in San Francisco, where she helped build the platform for the bank of the future. Before joining Earnest, Amanda was a hardware engineer at Intel, where she worked on the design and verification of integrated memory controllers for Intel’s x86 server product line. Amanda is from Corpus Christi, Texas. She studied Electrical Engineering at Rice University. In her spare time, Amanda enjoys writing short stories, reading, and playing tennis.

Trista Miller is an Associate Director of Investments at Sidewalk Labs. Most recently, Trista worked at Goldman Sachs in investment banking in Sydney and New York. Prior to that, she worked at the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Trista has an MBA from Cornell and a BA from Yale. In her spare time, she loves running, hiking, SCUBA diving, and snowboarding.

Nina Nappa is an Executive Assistant at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, she worked as a corporate immigration Paralegal at Gibney, Anthony & Flaherty, LLP in New York City. Nina graduated with honors in International Relations from Boston University, where she focused on International Systems and World Order.

Originally from Rhode Island, Nina enjoys traveling, hiking, and binge watching TV series on Netflix with her 16-year-old cat, Zeno. She spends her free time discovering up-and-coming restaurants and trying as many international candies as possible—though gummy candy is her ultimate weakness. In her past life, Nina was an active oil painter and volunteered teaching English classes and job skills to refugees. She is always excited to chat about current events/diversifying her Spotify playlist.

Jen Neilands is an Office Manager of 307, based in Toronto. Jen is passionate about creating spaces where people can come together and celebrate their shared identities and interests. A love of logistics and operations led Jen to manage events of all kinds, including Canada’s largest innovation to commercialization conference, Toronto Pride, as well as theatre and live events.

Jen is a Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) and has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Saskatchewan.

Jen is a knowledge seeker who delights in learning about new ways to interact with their community. In their spare time, Jen can be found flying acro yoga poses, working on their swimming technique, or curled up with a book.

Jeremy Neiman is a Software Engineer II at Sidewalk Labs.

Best known for his award-winning entry to the Martin Luther King Jr. Poetry Contest in the fourth grade and that one time he made the little league all-star team, in high school he found a passion for civic technology while working for Brooklyn Community Board 14, where he built one of the city’s first community board websites. Since then, he has done little of note.

Those little-noted things include working as a data scientist for the New York City Department of Sanitation, where he used technology such as machine learning and computer vision to improve operations and building products for IBM Smarter Cities. Jeremy studied computer science at The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering and holds a master’s degree in urban informatics from NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress. His project “New York Seeks Haikus” was featured in the annual Data Through Design exhibit, which highlights art inspired by NYC’s open datasets.

Jeremy is a hobbyist photographer, pizza snob, amateur bonsai dad and an avid board gamer.

Willa Ng is Director of Mobility – Streets, Urban Systems at Sidewalk Labs. Her background is in transportation engineering and community engagement, with a focus on parking and transportation demand management.

At the City of Berkeley, Willa implemented a demand-responsive parking program, as well as transit and biking programs, under the city’s goBerkeley pilot. Willa previously worked at the New York City Department of Transportation managing the PARK Smart value-pricing program, the parking technology pilot program, two community-based transportation pilots, and the congestion pricing proposal environmental review.

Willa began as a transportation engineer at AECOM. She graduated from UC-Berkeley with an MS in transportation engineering and from MIT with BS degrees in civil engineering and management. She is a proud native New Yorker and recreational eater.

Douwe Osinga is Director, Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs.

Before joining Google as a software engineer in 2004, Douwe started various companies in his native Netherlands. After stints in California, Zurich, India, and Sydney working on Search, Mobile and finally Google Wave, he ran Triposo, your favorite mobile travel guide from Berlin, for the last 5 years.

Michelle is Senior Associate, People Operations for Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, Michelle worked for Accel Partners in Palo Alto. Originally from California, Michelle completed her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Education at the University of California, Davis. Michelle spends her free time going to concerts, overpaying for almond milk lattes, and traveling.

Ananta is a Software Engineer on the urban prototyping team at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Ananta spent three and a half years at Birchbox, primarily working on the client-side engineering team to rearchitect the birchbox.com front end in React.

Ananta has a BA in Computer Science from Barnard College and enjoys cooking and hiking. She lives in LIC with her husband and their very outgoing Norwich terrier.

Julie Pedtke is an Associate, Housing at Sidewalk Labs, where she leads research on affordability by design and inclusive development.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Julie served as a Michigan-Mellon Design Fellow in Detroit, teaching an intensive program that aims to increase diversity in architecture and urbanism by introducing public high school students to design thinking. While in Michigan she also researched Detroit’s tax foreclosure crisis, organized with a nonprofit to create a foreclosure prevention toolkit, and coordinated a housing justice summit at the annual Allied Media Conference. In New York City she cofounded A-Frame, a collaborative platform for designers to share resources and advocate for alternative forms of practice. Julie is most interested in how ownership structures shape the built environment and dictate social and architectural outcomes. She is a member of the NYC Real Estate Investment Cooperative and the National Community Land Trust Research Collaborative.

Julie graduated with an M.Arch from Columbia University. She holds a B.A. from Hampshire College, where her love for participatory design and research began. She currently lives in Brooklyn and aims to visit the Botanic Gardens at least once a week.

Veronica is Director of Product Management for Sidewalk Labs. Before joining Sidewalk, Veronica was a Group Product Manager at Mixpanel, where she led the Machine Learning team as well as the cross-functional Pricing and Customer Retention initiatives.

Prior to Mixpanel, she worked at Google as a Product Manager on the Health Search team and at McKinsey as a consultant in the Business Technology Office. Veronica holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker’s scholar and served as Co-President of the TechMedia Club.

Veronica earned her BEng in Software Engineering from McGill University. Originally from Toronto, Veronica enjoys getting to know her new cities (most recently New York), running, reading fantasy, horseback riding, hosting, and jumping on the bandwagon of whichever Toronto sports team is the least terrible in any given year.

Stefanie is a Senior Product Designer at Sidewalk Labs. Before joining Sidewalk, she worked at Google Creative Lab where she focused on product innovation. Stefanie helped lead UX design for social impact projects, including Me Too Rising. Most recently, she partnered with the Android Accessibility team to create Live Caption.

Prior to Google, Stefanie was an Art Director and Designer at Huge and Elephant, where she built digital experiences for clients including Apple, FXX, American Express, and Newsweek. Stefanie holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Boston University. She is involved in design education and teaches Interaction Design and Communication to third year students at the School of Visual Arts.

After living in California for a few years, Stefanie is happy to be back in her home state of New York. She currently lives in Brooklyn and spends her free time taking care of her excessively large number of indoor plants, trying to perfect her family’s secret Italian recipes, and practicing yoga.

Vanessa is Sidewalk Labs’ Editorial Manager and the producer and co-host of the podcast “City of the Future.” She was previously the web editor for Metropolis, where she covered everything from VR’s burgeoning relevance to architecture to the integration of refugees into American legacy cities. Before that, Vanessa was a managing editor at ArchDaily, the world’s most visited architecture site, headquartered in Santiago, Chile. She has also contributed to numerous online publications, including Quartz, Wired, and Atlas Obscura.

Vanessa holds an MA in Arts & Culture Journalism from Columbia University and a BA in English Literature and Music from the George Washington University. When she’s not writing, editing, or thinking about cities, she’s probably traveling, cycling around the city, singing harmonies, or listening to podcasts.

Keerthana Rang is an Associate Director of Communications at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk Labs, Keerthana was the Director of Communications Tour for the 2018 John Tory re-election
campaign. Before joining the campaign, she was in the Mayor’s office as Mayor John Tory’s Senior Manager of Communications and Tour. With experience in both politics and the public sector, she provided strategic direction to the Mayor on communications, issues management and media relations. She also managed the Mayor’s team responsible for his public appearances.

Keerthana is passionate about public service and city building. She enjoys using her professional experiences to tell the story of city-building projects and the work that’s being done to make Toronto better for its residents.

She previously worked in communications for Metrolinx and the Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty. She is a York University graduate with a degree in Political Science and International Development Studies.

Ashley is Associate Director, Corporate Development at Sidewalk Labs. Previously, Ashley was the Head of Real Estate Investments at Harbor, a leader in security token issuance and innovation. Before joining Harbor, Ashley was an investment professional at H.I.G. Capital, where she was responsible for all aspects of the real estate investment process, including sourcing, structuring, financing, and post-closing execution.

Previously, she also worked at Greenhill & Co., where she focused on providing advisory services and raising capital for real estate sponsors. Ashley grew up in Boca Raton, Florida. She received a BA in Economic History and Urban Studies with Honors from the University of Pennsylvania. Ashley lives in Manhattan with her husband and maltipoo puppy. In her spare time, Ashley enjoys exploring the streets of NYC, trying new restaurants, and hosting family and friends.

Marc Ricks is the Chief Operating Officer of Sidewalk Labs, where he also oversees the Corporate Development function.

Marc’s career spans the public and private sectors. He served as senior policy advisor and chief of staff to New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding, where he played an active role in major projects such as the rebirth of the High Line and the transformation of the Far West Side of Manhattan into a modern commercial district known as Hudson Yards. In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, he returned temporarily to government service to help create a landmark plan to protect New York City from the impacts of extreme weather events and climate change.

In the private sector, Marc has advanced major public-private real estate and infrastructure projects. This includes the expansion of New York Penn Station into the former Farley Post Office, as part of the development team at Vornado Realty Trust, one of New York’s largest commercial property owners. He also led transportation and energy investments as a member of the Infrastructure Investment Group at Goldman, Sachs. He has worked in commercial strategy for Bloomberg LP’s web-based businesses, and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company.

Marc is active in the civic life of New York, most notably as the former Chair of the Friends of Governors Island. He lives with his wife and three children in Larchmont, New York, where he often can be found equivocating on the trade-offs between urban and suburban life.

Ninon is an Executive Assistant at Sidewalk Labs. She began her career at BNY Mellon, working with the client relationship divisions for Banks and Broker-Dealers and helping some of the world’s largest financial institutions manage complex custody, clearing, and cash management solutions. She then moved into Sidewalk Lab’s investment company, Intersection, becoming a big fan of their Link product.

Formerly an actress, Ninon is a native New Yorker who graduated from the drama department of LaGuardia H.S. on the Upper West Side. She went on to study medieval history at Yale College. Ninon now lives in Woodside, Queens. She likes attending Quaker meetings and hanging out with her husband and two kids.

Louisa Sainz de la Maza is a Hardware Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, she worked at IBM as an Analog Circuit Designer, working on sensors for high performance modules. In previous internships, she designed an emergency response drone network and developed predictive data analytics for pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Louisa studied electrical engineering and computer science at Columbia University, recently earning an M.S in EE. Her academic research focused on low power communication systems, IoT and all things analog. She was a member of the Columbia Sailing team and Greenborough, a green & sustainable co-op through her undergraduate. She grew up in Madrid, Spain and now lives in Chelsea where she spends her free time at art galleries, reading in coffee shops, and running along the Greenway. She’s always up for trivia and any team sports (most recently ice hockey).

Kristine is a Software Engineer II for the Mobility team at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk, Kristine spent four and a half years at Counsyl developing software that provides clinical context for genetic screening results.

Kristine has a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. When not solving problems with code, she enjoys snowboarding and games of all kinds.

Kristina Seon is Senior Associate, Finance at Sidewalk Labs. Previously, Kristina worked in accounting operations at Shutterstock as a Senior Accountant. Prior to joining Shutterstock, she worked at Deloitte, auditing media and technology companies.

A native New Yorker, Kristina spends her free time running throughout the five boroughs, training for marathons. She is always on the lookout for the best fries. Kristina holds a Master’s degree in Accounting from University of Notre Dame and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Business Administration from Washington and Lee University. She is a licensed CPA.

Jesse is Director, Digital Integration and Urban Design, where he leads the company’s human-centered design processes and helps teams explore ways to improve city life through new digital products. Before joining Sidewalk, Jesse was Director of Product at BuzzFeed, where he worked closely with journalists, entertainers, and tech teams to push the boundaries of content and technology.

For over a decade, Jesse Shapins has been a leading designer and entrepreneur at the intersection of media, technology, and place. In 2004, before smartphones, Jesse invented Yellow Arrow, one of the first platforms to globally connect physical locations, digital media and communities. Jesse is co-founder of Mapping Main Street, a documentary arts project that tells the stories of the over 10,466 streets named Main Street across the United States; co-founder of UnionDocs, one of the nation’s leading centers for documentary arts, based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; co-founder and CEO of GoPop, a platform for visual conversation that was acquired by BuzzFeed in 2014; and co-founder and CEO of Zeega, a pioneering web platform empowering anyone to tell interactive stories by mixing their own media with maps, video clips, memes, and anything else they could find online.

Jesse holds a BA in Urban Studies from Columbia University and a PhD in Urbanism and Critical Media Practice from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He co-founded metaLAB (at) Harvard, a research venture based at the GSD and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society that bridges humanities, urbanism, and technology. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Metropolis, PRAXIS and Wired, cited in books such as The Sentient City and Networked Locality, and been exhibited at MoMA, SFMoMA, Deutsches Architektur Zentrum and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, among other venues.

Josh Sirefman is the President of Sidewalk Labs. Josh has spent his career at the forefront of the planning, negotiation and implementation of complex growth and development strategies across the public and private sectors. As founder and President of Sirefman Ventures, he led transformative development projects for a range of corporate, nonprofit and government entities, including Cornell University’s successful effort to build a new applied sciences campus in New York City, the University of Chicago’s transformation of Hyde Park through the redevelopment of a vibrant new mixed-use district, and the repositioning of the New York Public Library’s renovation of its flagship building.

Prior to founding Sirefman Ventures, Josh was the Senior Vice President for U.S. Development at Brookfield Properties and managed a development portfolio of more than 15 million square feet across the country. Before joining Brookfield Properties, Josh held a series of high-level roles within the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, including Chief of Staff to the Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding, and Interim President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

Josh holds a Masters Degree in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor’s Degree from Wesleyan University. He has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University, University of Michigan and New York University, and sits on the boards of the Fist and Heel Dance Company, New York Restoration Project, the Lowline, and Spaceworks.

Chris is the Director of Fabrication Lead with Sidewalk Labs, helping to bring ideas into the physical realm with prototypes and experiments.

Previously, Chris spent 11 years working for the America’s Cup team Oracle Racing, helping create the boats that won the 33rd and 34th cups. For the past year he’s worked on special projects with Google and Google X.

Growing up in a small town in the Pacific Northwest that was obsessed with wooden boats left Chris with a deep appreciation of materials and building processes. From there, the University of Washington and stints living in New Zealand and Spain helped create a worldview for varied urban and rural environments.

Lauren Skelly is the Director of External Affairs for Sidewalk Labs where she gets to work on her favourite things every day, technology and cities.

Before joining Sidewalk Labs, Lauren worked for 5 years as the Government Relations Manager at Google Canada, where she helped to shape cutting-edge technology issues with policy makers inside and outside governments. Lauren also managed Google’s philanthropic efforts in Canada, working closely with non-profits across the country on projects related to diversity, STEM education, and the future of work. Prior to Google, Lauren worked on the policy team at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, where she worked on public policy issues advancing the interests of cities and communities to the federal government.

Kristin is an Associate Director of Building Innovations at Sidewalk Labs. She has focused her career in architecture and development specializing in mass timber construction.

Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, Kristin worked at Kaiser + Path in Portland, Oregon as a Project Architect and Development Director where she led the design of the tallest CLT building in the United States upon completion, Carbon12, among other innovative mass timber projects. Her crossover between development and architecture ensures a holistic consideration of the built environment and execution of sustainable systemic change within the building industry.

Kristin holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Texas Tech University. She lived in Portland, Oregon for 10 years prior to moving to New York. Kristin’s favorite pastimes are cycling and exploring the world.

Pamela Soberman is the Associate Director, People Operations at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Pamela was a Senior HR Business Partner at Microsoft leading the people & culture strategy for an engineering organization with a focus on inclusive leadership, team effectiveness, and talent management. While at Microsoft, she also held roles in executive recruiting and global diversity & inclusion. Pamela has previously worked in the nonprofit and government sectors. She started her career at the Brookings Institution, a public policy think tank.

Pamela holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan (Go Blue!) and a B.S. from Vanderbilt University. She relocated to NYC for this role and is excited to explore the city as a first-time resident.

Rachel is a Senior Product Manager at Sidewalk Labs. Before Sidewalk Labs, she was the Chief Product Officer at Shortlist, a talent tech company in India and Kenya. During her tenure, she led the Product, Design, Data, and Assessments teams.

Prior to Shortlist, she was the Associate VP at Housing.com. She lead 65 people in the Rentals and the Solutions verticals which developed features that spanned all products, like recommendation engines, search, and personalization. Her focus on technology stemmed from her work at the International Finance Corporation, where tech-enabled small businesses in emerging markets offered scalable impact. After IFC, she worked at IBM on financial applications and co-founded Explain, a multimedia storytelling company.

During Harvard Business School, she worked at Google, co-created an audio app, and took as many coding classes as possible. Rachel loves urban planning, which she studied alongside public policy at Princeton University. She is always up for taking urban adventures, exploring new places, creating curated maps, and enjoying photography. She can also recommend great corner chai from her four years of living and working in India.

Jeff Tarr is Director, Systems Engineering at Sidewalk Labs, focusing on environmental sensing in the public realm.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Jeff was the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Junction, a company that brought “Internet of Things” sensors to buildings to improve energy efficiency and sustainability. As CTO, he was responsible for software development, hardware design, and manufacturing with teams in America, China, India, and the Ukraine. Jeff has worked in the technology industry for over 25 years in technology research, “smart home” design, and hardware development at Apple and other firms.

Jeff grew up on the Upper West Side and has a B.A. from Harvard in Computer Science. He still lives on the Upper West Side with his wife, Amy, and three children, Gigi, Penelope, and Theodore. In his free time he races cars, flies airplanes, runs marathons, and builds gadgets to make parenting easier.

Samara Trilling is a Senior Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, she built city data infrastructure and visualization tools for Google Fiber’s community impact team and iOS and web apps for Google News.

Samara graduated from Columbia University with a degree in computer science, specializing in artificial intelligence, and a concentration in history. She worked with Professor Eric Foner on original research into Columbia University and New York City’s ties to the slave trade. In high school, Samara interned for Senator Barbara Boxer, Representative Anna Eshoo and State Senator Joe Simitian.

Samara is from the Bay Area and loves hiking trails with great views, books on the history of computing, beautiful stationery, and playing ’60s folk music on guitar.

Dan is Principal Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs.

Prior to joining Sidewalk, Dan worked at Mt. Sinai’s HammerLab building open source tools for visualizing genomes and detecting genetic variants in cancers. Before Mt. Sinai, Dan spent eight years at Google, primarily working on projects involving web search and search logs analysis. He was involved in creating quick answers and visualizations for queries such as “when does the sun set” or “how many people live in NYC” Dan was also part of the team that built Google Flu Trends and Google Correlate, a tool for discovering patterns in search activity.

Dan has a long history of developing a variety of digital side projects. The most recent of which was OldNYC, a collaboration with the New York Public Library which placed tens of thousands of historic photos on a map.

Dan is a native of South Bend, Indiana. He studied Math and Computer Science at Rice University. Since 2010, he has been based in Brooklyn, where he can frequently be found cycling, climbing, running and throwing frisbees.

Keira Webster is Senior Associate, Planning on the Development team at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk Labs, she worked as an Urban Planner at Urban Strategies, a Toronto-based global planning and design consultancy. At Urban Strategies, Keira worked within large, multidisciplinary teams on various projects involving master planning, policy research, transportation planning, and development approvals processes.

Keira has a B.A. in Geography, Urban Systems from McGill University and a Master of Planning from Ryerson University. Her curiosity with the complex challenges that arise from the relationships between cities and the environment in which they exist has driven much of her academic research. This research includes exploring the use of open data tools in building urban resilience, the role of planning and policy in the uptake of autonomous vehicles, and the application of geographic information systems in solving network analysis problems.

Keira currently lives in the Junction neighbourhood of Toronto. She is determined to get everywhere by bike in all seasons, loves farmers’ markets, and hopes to someday play the piano that’s taking up a significant amount of space in her apartment.

Abby Wei is a Recruiting Coordinator at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to joining Sidewalk, she was a Senior Recruiter at Atlan, a data-tech startup based in Delhi. She hired the company’s first senior engineers and sourced for niche roles across tech and non-tech functions. Additionally, Abby has also worked at Southwest Airlines in Community Engagement and coordinated the company’s annual volunteer event across 90+ locations.

Abby grew up in Maryland and holds a B.S. from Vanderbilt University. In her free time she enjoys volunteering at church, learning languages (most recently, Persian), and exploring cities.

Natalie Weires is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Before coming to Sidewalk, she worked on YouTube data infrastructure at Google in Mountain View. Originally from Iowa, Natalie has a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University.

Outside of work, she enjoys playing music, reading, and doing partner acrobatics. She also cycles through various arts and crafts hobbies, most recently taking up sewing.

Landry Doyle Wiese is a Fall Associate of Urban Systems at Sidewalk Labs. She is currently a student at Columbia University working on a Master’s in Public Administration. Prior to attending Columbia, Landry worked as an analyst and project manager for an illicit finance consulting firm and led operations for an NGO in the water and sanitation sector.

Originally from small-town Missouri, Landry also spent ten years in Los Angeles where she fell in love with cities and their capacity to spur development, creativity, and diversity. Landry graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.A. in International Relations.

She now lives with her husband on the Upper West Side, where you’ll find them drinking coffee, scoping out Oscar-nominees, and debating whether LeBron can beat the Warriors.

Andrew is the Head of Development Services at Sidewalk Labs.

Alexis is Director of Health and Human Services for Sidewalk Labs and is based in our Toronto office. Most recently, Alexis worked at MaRS, North America’s largest urban innovation hub, where she lead the Centre for Impact Investing’s health practice and supported the Health Systems Innovation team.

Born and raised in Toronto, Alexis is an experienced management consultant, having started her career at Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte), working for a boutique firm in the UK and also consulting independently. Alexis has first-hand experience as an entrepreneur in her role as co-founder of a Canadian employee support and education company. Alexis has also worked as a civil servant in the role of Pricing Strategy Lead for Monitor, the regulators for the National Health Service in England, where she was responsible for setting pricing policies to support improved integration of care across the health sector.

Alexis is a graduate of the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and completed her MBA at London Business School, both with distinction. She is also a proud mother to three awesome kids. In her free time, Alexis enjoys downhill skiing, yoga, and exploring new places and cities.

Yashih Wu is the Director of Commercialization for Sidewalk Labs Urban Systems. She is also an advisor to several startups. Previously, Yashih served as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives for Flatiron School, the higher education arm of WeWork, where she led an innovation incubation team designed to help Flatiron School research, design, develop and test new business models and partnerships to expand Flatiron beyond its core business and into the future.

Prior to Flatiron School she was a global executive at IBM, where she led everything from strategy, business development, offering management, venture capital, partnerships, and more to help bring exponential technologies like Watson’s Artificial Intelligence, blockchain and IoT to the world. She has also spent time on both Wall Street (finance) and Madison Avenue (marketing), in the public and private sectors, in the U.S. and in China.

Originally hailing from California, Yashih earned her BA in Economics and Finance from Princeton University, and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She now lives in New York with her husband, daughter and son.

Siqi is an Associate Director, Public Realm at Sidewalk Labs, where his work imagines how technology transforms the design and implementation of urban streets and public realm. Before Sidewalk, Siqi headed up product design at Envelope, a NYC-based startup that visualizes development opportunities under NYC zoning. He also worked as a senior designer and project manager at Boston-based Sasaki and Utile, where he oversaw urban planning projects for a variety of public, private, and institutional clients across the US and internationally.

Siqi is passionate about great urban public spaces. He is particularly interested in how a human-centered, research- and data-intensive design process can yield fresh insights about—and build stakeholder consensus around—how we improve the urban public realm. He played a key role in creating Boston’s first Complete Streets guidelines, an award-winning design manual noted for technical and visual communication excellence; and Boston’s 2030 city-wide mobility strategy, lauded for its use of data visualization to engage a city-wide constituency in complex mobility planning decisions. Siqi has also worked extensively with municipal transportation and parks departments, the National Park Service, and other public space managers around the country.

Siqi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Urban Planning from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has led research projects at MIT Senseable City Lab and currently teaches at Northeastern University’s College of Art, Media, and Design.

Luda is a Software Engineer at Sidewalk Labs. Prior to Sidewalk, Luda worked at Airbnb, building tools to connect travelers with local experiences and communities. Luda is passionate about building great software to tackle tough, real-world problems.

Luda is a bit of an urban planning nerd on the side (Curbed and Streetsblog are some of his favorite blogs), and is alway down to grab a coffee to geek out on how we can make cities more livable for everyone. he received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, where he focused on data mining. He originally hails from sunny Los Angeles, CA. In his spare time, Luda enjoys traveling, photography, stand-up comedy, and collecting vintage maps.