Credits & Thanks

Leadership:

Alicia John-Baptiste
President and CEO

Gabriel Metcalf
Former President and CEO

Wade Rose
Regional Strategy Steering Committee Co-Chair

Lydia Tan
Regional Strategy Steering Committee Co-Chair

Robert Wilkins
Regional Strategy Steering Committee Co-Chair

David Friedman
Board of Directors Chair

Tomiquia Moss
Board of Directors Chair

Project Directors:

Benjamin Grant

Sarah Karlinsky

Nick Josefowitz

Karen Steen

Laura Tolkoff

Thank You to Our Core Regional Strategy Funders:

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation

Curtis Infrastructure Initiative

Dignity Health

Facebook

Genentech

George Miller

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Marin Community Foundation

Sage Foundation

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Stanford University

 

Additional funding provided by AECOM, Fund for the Environment and Urban Life, Hellman Foundation, Microsoft, Seed Fund, Stripe, Uber Technologies and Wells Fargo

Policy research and analysis:

Housing

Lead researchers: Sarah Karlinsky, Kristy Wang

Contributors: SPUR: Sarah Jo Szambelan, Livesey Pack, Amanda Ryan, AECOM: Cristian Bevington, Paul Peninger; The Concord Group: Tim Cornwell, Jordan LaMarche; The Continuing Center for the Study of the California Economy: Stephen Levy; Emerald Fund: Brynn McKiernan; Mapcraft: Ian Carlton; Strategic Economics: Sujata Srivastava, Evelyne St-Louis and Heather Bromfield

Growth

Lead researchers: Benjamin Grant, Sarah Jo Szambelan

Contributors: SPUR: Michelle Huttenhoff, Sarah Karlinsky, Nick Josefowitz, Ronak Davé Okoye, Hannah Schwartz; AECOM: Radhya Adityavarman, Cristian Bevington, Stephen Engblom, Hugo Errazuriz, Joy Woo; Mapcraft: Ian Carlton; Independent Consultant: Elliott Deal

Economic Justice

Lead researchers: Jacob Denney, Susannah Parsons, Egon Terplan, Eli Zigas

Contributors: Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy: Lisa Christensen Gee, Matt Salomon

Climate

Lead researchers: Laura Feinstein, Laurie A. Johnson, Sarah Jo Szambelan, Laura Tam

Contributors: San Francisco Estuary Institute: Julie Beagle, Jeremy Lowe, Katie McKnight, Sam Safran; Pacific Institute: Anne Thebo, Darcy Bostic; Greenbelt Alliance: Justin Wang, Sarah Cardona; Independent Consultant: Beki McElvain

Transportation

Lead researchers: Ratna Amin, Arielle Fleisher, Jonathon Kass, Sarah Jo Szambelan, Laura Tolkoff

Contributors: AECOM: Diane Cowin, Michael Cornfield, Stephen Engblom, Raymond Lo; Arup: Dahlia Chazan, Anthony Bruzzone, Kate White; Transform: Alan Hoffman, Chris Lepe; Independent Consultants: Stuart Cohen, Lindsey Kiner, Nicole Soultanov, Luke Zhang

Current and former SPUR staff and interns contributed to the creation of the Regional Strategy:

Teresa Alvarado, Allison Arieff, Abdullah Balkhyour, Hamza Bassurah, Michelle Chang, Noah Christman, Sierra DeSalvia, Katie Ettman, Vaughn Frisby, Megan Hophan, Spencer Krause, Alex Lee, Henrieta Muradzikwa, Robert Ogilvie, Heather Olinto, Diego Ortiz, Dimple Pajwani, Livesey Pack, Raine Robichaud, Amanda Ryan, Hannah Schwartz, Katie Seitelman, Nicole Soultanov, Elena Thomas, Amy Thomson, Christopher Ulrich, Jennifer Warburg, Helen Woodbury, Drew Woodward

SPUR Regional Strategy Steering Committee:

Wade Rose (co-chair)
Lydia Tan (co-chair)
Robert Wilkins (co-chair)
Jaye Bailey
W. Anderson Barnes
Tilly Chang
Dahlia Chazan
Stephen Engblom
David Friedman
Anne Halsted
Ed Harrington
Garrett Herbert
Ariane Hogan
Greg Johnson

Lewis Knight
Ellen Lou
Tomiquia Moss
Shannon Peloquin
Kristina Raspe
Rob Steinberg
Katy Tang
Michael Teitz
Jeff Till
V. Fei Tsen
Jessica von Borck
Fran Weld
Kate White

We are grateful to the SPUR Board of Directors for their support and leadership on the Regional Strategy.

Thank you to the hundreds of dedicated public servants, nonprofit organizations, community organizations and individuals who expanded our understanding of what the Bay Area needs and provided input into the Regional Strategy in innumerable ways.

Website:

Design:

Hazen Creative
Emotive Brand

Project management

Lauren Foster

Development

Neelu Bhuman (they/them)
Andrew Nicholson (he/them)

The Bay Area of 2070

SPUR’s Regional Strategy digital storytelling series was created by Art+Action in collaboration with Emotive Brand -- harnessing the talents of a multitude of artists, illustrators, animators, designers, writers and activists including:

Creative Strategy + Art Curation

Art+Action

Concept + Design + Writing

Art+Action and Emotive Brand

Project Management

Brittany Ficken (Art+Action)
Kelly Peterson (Emotive Brand)

Additional artworks for A New Civic Vision

Ishita Jain
Danie Drankwalter