Our host, LUL President & CEO Lyndon Pryor, is joined by Jeana Dunlap, an urbanist, well-known development and housing advocate, and founder of META Agency. META Agency works to co-create spaces and places where access and ambition prevail in the social, natural, and built environments. Dunlap previously served for over 15 years in the Louisville Metro Government, overseeing initiatives addressing abandoned property, real estate development, and affordable housing.

The duo discusses how Louisville has changed, the purpose of city planning, the progress of development, and the effects of gentrification.

Dunlap is a DuPont Manual HS graduate, earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Louisville, and holds both a Master of Science in Economics and a Master of Public Policy & Administration from the University of Kentucky. She is a 2020 Bingham Fellow, a 2019 Harvard Loeb Fellow, a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and a Silver-Life member of the Louisville Branch of the NAACP.