U.S. Economic Development
We love economic development, public policy, development finance, impact investing, and building sustainable communities.
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@katiebkramer.bsky.social
@benfeshbach.bsky.social
Associate at RMI working on economic development, industrial policy, and cleantech manufacturing. Here for the #EnergySky. The usual caveats apply.
@marissar1.bsky.social
Founder & Principal —> digital marcom for leaders in responsible business. Mizzou. Penn. Mother of 2. Born at 340.
@erikahaskins.bsky.social
Founder | Investor | Fundraiser Moving mountains & money for enduring impact. Economic Recovery Corps SonderVC, Intripid 📍Boston, MA / Portland, ME #impactinvesting #impinv #econdev #ownershipeconomy #philanthropy #financialinclusion
@kostyack.bsky.social
Consulting on climate change & the energy transition for NGOs & foundations at Kostyack Strategies. Senior Contributor at Forbes.com & Senior Fellow at ceea.us. I prioritize offering hot takes over cleaning up typos.
@jclarkcrp.bsky.social
Professor of City + Regional Planning; Editor-in-Chief, Regional Studies @regionalstudies.bsky.social. I work on regional economic development; cities + tech; economic geography. Alum: Cornell, UMN, Wesleyan. Prof @ Ohio State.
@pattysimonton.bsky.social
Conscious capitalist. Ecosystem Builder. Entrepreneurship Development Professional.
@georgebrewster.bsky.social
Public Affairs at Better Society Capital. 🗣️ Social Impact Investment - Charities and Social Enterprises, Housing, Public Services, Tech for Good and a Just Transition to Net Zero 🌏 Ex-Civil Servant at DHSC 🏥
@cherylcort.bsky.social
Likes urbanism, walkability, buses, trains, bikes, safer streets, homes for everyone, racial justice, environment, stopping sprawl, keeping rural rural. Policy Director, Coalition Smarter Growth, DC-MD-VA, @betterDCregion. Longtime DC (Ward 1) resident.
@frischplan.bsky.social
Urban planning + design prof, writes and thinks about cities, community development, LGBTQ communities, the environment, Kansas City MO, Col. Co, NY (New Lebanon), housing, synth-pop, Quaker (PVMM, IYM-c), non-violence, bicycles. 🏳️🌈 views are my own.
@chinyereagbai.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology researching the roots of the racial wealth gap and their consequences for health inequality. Views are my own | https://chinyereagbai.com/
@richardbrown.bsky.social
Cities, urban economics, housing, puns, poetry and pop music. Views are mine.
@usimpinvalliance.bsky.social
We are a field building organization dedicated to increasing the practice of impact investing in the United States. impinvalliance.org
@trippbaird.bsky.social
Impact investing, decarbonization, systems responsibility, a just economy & a livable biosphere. Co-founder, @BuildersFund; Board @PosiGen @TradMed @UrbanRemedy - Home is where I want to b (But I guess Im already there) #impinv www.thebuildersfund.com
@laurenlowery.bsky.social
Housing Supply, Homelessness, Housing Stability and Cities. Director, Housing and Community Development at National League of Cities. Views are my own.
@lindseyboylan.bsky.social
Mom. Whistleblower. Feminist. Urban Planning + Economic Development Exec. Lover of doughnuts, dogs, & parks. New Yorker from SoCal.
@costasamaras.com
Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
@bourbonplanner.bsky.social
Urban planner for Mt Pleasant, WI American Planning Association WI SE Rep Resident Washington Heights, Milwaukee, WI Opinions are my own & not those of any office or organization. Formerly: https://twitter.com/BourbonPlanner
@justupthepike.bsky.social
maryland policy director @ggwash.org, your east silver spring civic association VP, pit bull parent, elder emo, just out here getting cuter. no growth has to mean less is less. they/them.
@berkie1.bsky.social
Supporting a new generation of walkable neighborhoods with housing abundance, active public realms, & thriving small business ecosystems. Founder remainplaces.com
@yonahfreemark.com
Transport / Housing / Land Use / Politics / @urbaninstitute.bsky.social / Le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous / yonahfreemark.com / thetransportpolitic.com
@growamerica.org
Grow America (formerly NDC) generates investment in US communities providing financing & economic & community development certification & training. Learn more at https://growamerica.org/.
@misterjoshr.bsky.social
Protagonist. Occasional antagonist. Humanist. Urbanist. Lover of unpredictable narratives and patient labor. Pro tennis/anti pickleball. 🏳️🌈, 📕, Democrat. 216 via the 305.
@urbaninstitute.bsky.social
The Urban Institute is a research-to-impact institution founded on one simple idea: To improve lives and strengthen communities, we need practices and policies that work.
@lea9223.bsky.social
She/Her. Women’s economic policy at The Century Foundation. Formerly Economic Policy Institute and Institute for Women’s Policy Research. Memes and labor rights. Tweets my own.
@nikhitaairi.bsky.social
Tax and budget analysis, data viz, #Rstats at Tax Policy Center, @urbaninstitute.bsky.social. Views my own. https://taxpolicycenter.org/author/nikhita-airi I love cities and graphs
@lendistry.bsky.social
Lendistry empowers growing small businesses with innovative financing choices.
@rohansandhu.bsky.social
Co-founder of the Harvard Reimagining the Economy Project | state capacity, economic development, industrial policy, workforce/education | + TV, films, books
@benjaminpreis.com
Director, National Housing Crisis Task Force. Senior Research Fellow, Nowak Metro Finance Lab at Drexel University. Landlords, urban networks, and wealth inequality. Formerly MIT DUSP and Tufts University. he/him
@hildistrict.bsky.social
critical Black suburbanisms | UCLA Urban Planning PhD Candidate | DC born + bred www.hilarymalson.com
@bweiser.bsky.social
Research Officer @ Nowak Metro Finance Lab | doin economic development and infrastructure things
@nextcity.org
Next City’s journalism centers marginalized voices while amplifying solutions to the problems that oppress people in cities.
@rikadamski.bsky.social
Dallas-based Downtown and Neighborhood Planner. I help communities push past planning paralysis and make real progress towards their goals. President of ASH+LIME, www.ashlime.com. Cofounder, Storefront Renaissance League.
@saraklind.bsky.social
Co-Executive Director @openplans.org | Transportation, Housing, Walkable Cities.
@nabeela-alam.bsky.social
Development economist studying political economy of aid and institutions | social norms and gender | 🇧🇩
@eicova.bsky.social
Comms Director @ Smart Growth America LGBTQ+ | Climate | Cities | Travel | MPA, NYU Wagner
@jeff4place.bsky.social
Striving to be the Rachel Ray of urbanism. Founder of Revitalize, or Die. Talks shit on parking.
@tonyakraan.bsky.social
Inspiring the next generation of leaders and connecting them with rural communities and businesses of all sizes. SHCG CEO | Fleming College Professor | Workforce Development Board Director | Peterborough & Kawarthas Chamber of Commerce Past President
@hannahccfairman.bsky.social
Minnesotan. Work at the intersection of comms and policy to drive advancements in #healthequity & economic well-being | ❤️📚+🖼+🌿+ being a 🏒 ⚽️⚾️mom
@ecdevcrm.bsky.social
Helping communities grow by working with economic developers, tourism, incubators, accelerators and workforce developers - I created a version of HubSpot's marketing and CRM software used by 100+ communities. Here to contribute, share ideas and learn.
@benglasner.bsky.social
Economist with the Economic Innovation Group. Ex-post-doc with the Center on Poverty & Social Policy (CPSP). Ex-Ex-Grad Student at the Evans School (UW). Tweets on policy and research. All good posts are from my dog. Insta/Tiktok: @microfamousben
@jmlcochrane.bsky.social
Impact Investing, Public Policy, Philanthropy | U.S. Impact Investing Alliance @usimpinvalliance.bsky.social
@franseegull.bsky.social
President, U.S. Impact Investing Alliance & Executive Director, Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing; fmr Ford Foundation & Chief Investment Officer at ImpactAssets #impinv #impactinvesting #econdev #socent #socfin
@drobcle.bsky.social
📍Cleveland | 💼 West Park | 🏡 Old Brooklyn Executive Director of a pretty cool community development corporation.
@ilanapreuss.bsky.social
Small businesses, downtowns, main streets, small-scale manufacturing, filled storefronts, & making great places are my passion. Author, Recast Your City. CEO, Recast City. She/her
@ginapieters.bsky.social
I was an academic economist for over 10 yrs (UMinn, TrinityU, UChicago) now I work as a researcher specializing in macro-system impacts of digital assets, money, & payments (crypto/stablecoins/CBDCs). #EconSky #Chicago www.digitaleconomyconsulting.com
@aaronbrickman.bsky.social
Senior Principal @RockyMtnInst | Founder of USG’s @SelectUSA | former @GlobalBiz | Focus on #cleantech, #econdev, #FDI, #trade; opinions are mine
@lucasgrindley.bsky.social
Executive Director + podcast host for @nextcity.org Composer; music in links. he/him 🏳️🌈 https://linkin.bio/lucasgrindley https://lmgsoundworks.substack.com
@terrihathaway.bsky.social
Fearless whistleblower seeking inclusive & equitable economic development, and government accountability. Plant lover.
@nataliemillar.bsky.social
Economist and Styslinger Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution studying the labor market returns to job training programs and business incentives. https://www.nataliemillar.net
@duke1.bsky.social
Offering thoughts on the latest economic development trends as well as more mundane matters.
@tamikabutler.bsky.social
Nebraska Always. @StanfordLaw alum. Fighting racism, poverty & injustice. @UCLA Urban planning PhD. Mobility justice & dignity all day. All tweets/views my own.
@mbranden.bsky.social
Mom/Philanthropic and Impact Investing Leader/Brooklynite *Views described here are only my own*
@peggybaileydc.bsky.social
@CenterOnBudget Executive VP of Policy and Program Development. Fighting for economic, health and housing justice. Tired dog mom, even more tired of excuses used to not help people eat, be healthy, and have a place to call home.
@profweinstein.bsky.social
Economist studying rural economies. Air Force Veteran. Ohioan. Mom of 3 kids. Wife of the 1 and only @senatorweinstein.bsky.social
@marthagimbel.bsky.social
Sometimes Econ, sometimes rants, sometimes both. Current Budget Lab at Yale, former CEA, JEC, DOL, SF, Indeed.
@jaredbrey.bsky.social
Philadelphia-based reporter covering transportation and infrastructure for Governing. Contributing editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine. Email: jaredbrey@gmail.com.
@maggiereeves1.bsky.social
K-12 ed lead at Urban Institute. Georgia Policy Labs founding senior director. RPPs, integrated data, veggie grower, and mama, too.
@kshack.bsky.social
Planner. Urbanist. Design Thinker. Explorer. Amateur Astronomer. Ut Prosim. Otto’s Mom (she/her)
@alisongoebeloh.bsky.social
Personal obsessions: cycling road races 🚴🏼♀️🚴♂️, cats. Professional interests: legacy cities (aka 'rustbelt' cities), land use, housing. Also: Executive Director of @greaterohio.org, but all posts are mine.
@jeannebondsnc.bsky.social
Former NC Mayor WholeCommunityHealthInitiative #Wilmingtonian #UNC X 3 Love my #GenZ students.
@erikapoethig.bsky.social
Chicagoan. Policy nerd. Houser. Mom to two boys & wife to fellow policy nerd @raysendeja
@jzimbabwe.bsky.social
Architect, planner, and Executive Director of Environmental Works Community Design Center in Seattle. Adjunct faculty at UW. Also: cheese, parrots, travel, music, housing, transit, maps, books, dogs, politics.
@oscarthinks.bsky.social
Senior Economic Justice Correspondent, @nextcity.org. Author of The Banks We Deserve https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-banks-we-deserve-reclaiming-community-banking-for-a-just-economy-oscar-perry-abello/21374823 Based in NYC. #FilAm oscar@nextcity.org
@upjohninstitute.bsky.social
The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research is a nonpartisan, independent research organization, founded in 1945 to study policy-related employment issues and to implement workforce solutions. Based in Kalamazoo, Michigan. https://www.upjohn.org/
@timbartik.bsky.social
Senior Economist at Upjohn Institute, fan of "place-based policies" (or at least some of them!). https://www.upjohn.org/about/upjohn-team/staff/timothy-j-bartik
@katiebkramer.bsky.social
Executive Director, Ohio Statewide Development Corp. | #smallbiz lending | sometimes art + politics | Mom of 3 | SoCal native