Jay Pitter, MES, is an award-winning placemaker and author creating joyful public spaces that foster belonging, prosperity, and cultural memory. She advances this work through cultural planning, policy frameworks, and storytelling—bridging rigor and collective imagination to advance public joy as essential urban infrastructure and a human right

In this episode of The Sidewalk Ballet, we sit down with Kady to talk about placemaking as practice and possibility. From Placemaking class to her on-the-ground experience building community through culture, she shares how storytelling, celebration, and showing up shape the way we live together. It’s a conversation about creativity, access, and the small, artful moves that change the feel of a city.

In this episode of The Sidewalk Ballet, we talk with Nate Storring, Co-Executive Director of Project for Public Spaces, about the organization’s 50th anniversary and the future of placemaking.

Majora Carter is a real estate developer, strategist, and Peabody Award–winning broadcaster whose work has redefined urban revitalization. She is the author of Reclaiming Your Community, a book that challenges the idea that low-status neighborhoods are destined to remain so.

Karen Christensen is an author, publisher, and founder of Berkshire Publishing Group. Her forthcoming book with Ray Oldenburg revisits the idea of the “third place,” exploring how we build community in an age of loneliness and division.