About the Speakers
Darryl Young
Director, Sustainable Cities Program
The Summit Foundation
DARRYL YOUNG is the director of the Summit Foundation’s Sustainable Cities program and serves on the boards of the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, TransitCenter Foundation, and Main Street America. Previously, he worked in California as director of its Department of Conservation; member of its Board of Forestry; and as chief consultant to the Senate Natural Resources and Wildlife Committee in the state legislature.
Austin Blackmon
Vice President of Environmental Activism
Chief of Environment, Energy, and Open Space
City of Boston
AUSTIN BLACKMON is chief of environment, energy, and open space for the city of Boston, where he leads the environment, parks and recreation, and inspectional services departments. Previously, he worked with Terraverde Renewable Partners, Booz Allen Hamilton, Wells Fargo Securities, C12 Energy, and the US Renewables Group.
Erin Barnes
Co-Founder and CEO
ioby
ERIN BARNES is the executive director of ioby, which mobilizes neighbors who have good ideas to become powerful citizen leaders who plan, fund, and make positive change in their neighborhoods. In 2012 the Rockefeller Foundation awarded Barnes and her ioby co-founders the Jane Jacobs Medal for New Technology and Innovation. Barnes is a contributor to Al Gore’s book Our Choice.
