FEATURED SPEAKER

Christopher Leinberger is a land use strategist, developer, teacher, consultant and author, helping to make progressive development profitable. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, focusing on research and practices to help transform traditional and suburban downtown to places that provide “walkable urbanism.”

Leinberger is also a professor and director of the Graduate Real Estate Program at the University of Michigan. He is a founding partner of Arcadia Land Company, a progressive real estate development firm. Chris was co-chair of the New Mexico Governor Richardson's Task Force on Our Communities and Our Future and served on the Planned Growth Strategy Implementation Task Force and the Impact Fee Task Force in Albuquerque. He also serves on the advisory boards of The Conservation Fund and the Enterprise Foundation.

Leinberger has been intimately involved with KC’s own film documentary, “Mending the Heart of an American City,” which tells the story of our urban core’s renaissance. He leads the film’s advisory committee and has visited KC on numerous occasions to evaluate the progress.

He has written award-winning articles for publications such as the Atlantic Monthly, the Wall Street Journal, and Urban Land magazine. He has been profiled by CNN, the Today Show, and National Public Radio. He lives the Dupont Circle area of Washington, DC with his wife, Lisa.