Featuring

At the Festival of Progressive Abundance, you’ll hear from and connect with Members of Congress, the builders of America’s next cities, movement pioneers, city planners, policy makers, urbanist technology innovators and entrepreneurs, public experience designers, game-changing architects and developers, leading Gen-Z organizers, experts in energy and transportation, local champions for housing from across America, and a few Imagineers.

Our speakers include:

Members of Congress
United States Congressman Scott Peters (bio)
United States Congressman Laura Friedman (bio)

Democratic Party Icons
Jon Lovett, Host of Pod Save America & Speechwriter for President Obama (bio)

YIMBY Pioneers
California State Senator Scott Wiener (bio)
M. Nolan Gray, California YIMBY (bio)
Laura Foote, Founder of YIMBY Action

Builders of Cities
Jan Sramek, Founder & CEO of California Forever (bio)
Ann Morrow Johnson, Gensler & Former VP of Walt Disney Imagineering (bio)

Authors & Historians
Author of ‘Why Nothing Works’ Marc Dunkelman (bio)

Transit Experts
Hayden Clarkin, The Transit Guy (bio)
Doug Gordon, The War on Cars (bio)
Eric Goldwyn, NYU Marron Institute of Urban Management (bio)

Elected Officials
Scott Weiner, California State Senator (bio)
Michael Tubbs, Former Stockton Mayor & Founder of End Poverty in California (bio)
John Erickson, WeHo Councilmember & Former Mayor of West Hollywood (bio)
Nithya Raman, Los Angeles City Councilmember, District 4 (bio)
Analise Ortiz, Arizona State Senator (bio)
Anna Hernandez, Phoenix Councilmember (bio)
Bubba Fish, Culver City Councilmember (bio)
Jesse Zwick, Santa Monica Councilmember (bio)

Gen-Z Stars
William He, Founder & CEO of Dream for America (bio)
Matthew Meyers, Abundance Coordinator for The Niskanen Center (bio)
Nicolas Kiet Quach, Founder & CEO of Coalition PAC (bio)
Maxwell Stern, Founder of Students for Abundance (bio)
Victoria Ren, Founder of Stanford Abundance (bio)
Marcus Emmanuel, National Organizing Director for Dream for America (bio)
Jack X. Howard, President of California College Democrats (bio)
Kate Rodgers, Student Homes Coalition (bio)

Champions for Progress
Jason Crawford, Founder & President of Roots of Progress Institute (bio)

Urbanist & Abundance Leaders
Laura Foote, YIMBY Action (bio)
Zachary Pitts, YIMBY Action (bio)
Jesse Zwick, Housing Action Coalition (bio)
Azeen Khanmalek, Abundant Housing LA (bio)
Michael Schneider, Streets for All (bio)
Tyler Laferriere, The Center for New Liberalism (bio)
Toby Muresianu, Westside for Everyone (bio)
Colin Parent, Circulate San Diego (bio)
Jeremy Bloom, YIMBY Democrats of San Diego County
Sara Reyes, SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition (bio)
Louis Abramson, SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition (bio)
Jonathan Hale, People's Vision Zero (bio)

Entrepreneurs & Urbanist Technology Innovators
Jan Sramek, California Forever (bio)
Micah Springut, Monumental Labs (bio)
Laura Fingal-Surma, Urbanist Ventures (bio)
Jeral Poskey, Swyft Cities (bio)
Kyle Vansice, Cedar (bio)
Leila Banijamali, Symbium

Candidates for Office

TJ Adams-Falconer, Candidate for U.S. Congress (bio)
John Erickson, Candidate for California State Senate (bio)
Sara Hernandez, Candidate for California State Senate (bio)
Zennon Ulyate-Crow, Candidate for California State Senate (bio)
Jon Rawlings, Candidate for LA City Council (bio)
Henry Mantel, Candidate for LA City Council (bio)

Aesthetic Influencers & Experience Design Pioneers
Ann Morrow Johnson, Gensler & Former VP of Walt Disney Imagineering (bio)
Alicia Pederson, Courtyard Urbanist (bio)
Micah Springut, Monumental Labs (bio)

Entertainers
Adam Conover, Adam Ruins Everything (bio)
Stacy Cay, Host of Morning Standup (bio)

and leaders from our Producing Coalition: YIMBY Democrats for America, YIMBY Action, Housing Action Coalition, Dream for America, Project Liberal, Coalition PAC, Abundant Housing Los Angeles, The Transit Guy, YIMBY Democrats of San Diego County, The Los Angeles New Liberals, The New York City New Liberals, Streets for All, YIMBY Los Angeles, YIMBY Law, Urbanist Ventures, The War on Cars, Westside for Everyone, Cities of Lions, People First California, and Radio Abundance.

With many more to come…

And you! Come join us!