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Diana Lind

Speech Topics:
The Livable City
The Media and Their Influence in Cities
Young Urban Leaders and Nonprofit Organizations
The Next American City

Diana Lind writes and speaks extensively about how to build more socially, economically and environmentally sustainable communities. She is currently the program director for the New Cities Foundation, a Geneva-based nonprofit organization aligning the public, private and academic sectors to develop new models of urbanization.

Previously, she was the editor-in-chief and publisher of Next American City magazine. During her tenure at Next American City, she started the URBANEXUS monthly event series, the Next American Vanguard fellowship program, the annual Open Cities conference, and oversaw a doubling of the magazine’s subscribers and ad pages. She remains the magazine’s editor at large and the host of Metro Matters, a monthly podcast in collaboration with the Brookings Institution.

Lind began her career as an editorial assistant at Architectural Record, the United States’ leading architecture trade magazine. Still a regular contributor, she frequently reviews residential architecture and exhibitions, and has written for nearly every section of the magazine.

Taking her interest in residential environments to book form, Lind authored Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design (Rizzoli, 2008), which is in its second printing. She also edited the book Designing the Hamptons (Edizioni, 2006).

Lind’s work has been profiled in numerous publications, including The New York Times and Monocle. She has been an instructor or lecturer at numerous universities including Columbia University, Drexel University, Rutgers University-Camden, and the University of Windsor. The winner of the ACLU’s Stand Up for Freedom contest in 2008, she was also named to a list of “top ten do-gooders” by Paper Magazine in 2009.

Lind received her B.A. in English from Cornell University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University.

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