Brandon Fuller is Deputy Director and Research Scholar at the Marron Institute. Fuller is also part of the founding team at the Urbanization Project, a Marron-affiliated research center at NYU's Stern School of Business. The work of the Urbanization Project is focused on rapid urbanization in low and middle income countries. Fuller chairs the Board of Directors for Refugee Cities, a non-profit dedicated to expanding the options of displaced people by promoting special-status settlements in which they can engage in meaningful, dignifying, and rewarding work. He is an adjunct scholar in the Niskanen Center's immigration department. Fuller is also an advisor to Utopia, an urban planning and design firm focused exclusively on informal settlements. Prior to joining NYU, Fuller was Director of Charter Cities, a non-profit founded by World Bank Chief Economist Paul Romer that focused on the potential for new cities to advance reform in rapidly urbanizing countries. Before that, Fuller was part of Aplia, an education technology start-up founded in the San Francisco Bay Area. Aplia provides interactive online problem sets and experiments designed to increase student effort and engagement in brick-and-mortar college courses. Fuller started his career as an adjunct professor of economics at his alma mater, the University of Montana in Missoula.

Amanda Gutterman runs marketing at Consensus Systems ("ConsenSys"), a venture production studio building decentralized applications on the blockchain. Forbes Magazine listed her as one of 30 Under 30 in Media, and Inc. Magazine listed her as one of 30 Under 30 Movers and Shakers in the Content Industry. Previously she cofounded and served as editorial director of Slant, a digital news platform allowing creators to instantly monetize their work and optimize it for distribution on social media. Before Slant, Amanda was Special Projects Editor at The Huffington Post and worked at The New Yorker. She grew up in Washington, D.C. and is a graduate of Columbia University with a BA, Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. In addition to her bylined publications, her work has been cited by Business Insider, Digiday, Tech Crunch, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, Capital New York, POLITICO, and Foreign Affairs, among others.

Sanford Ikeda (Ph.D. New York University) is a professor of economics at Purchase College, State University of New York. He is author of Dynamics of the Mixed Economy and has published in Forbes and National Review Online as well as in The Southern Economic Journal, Review of Austrian Economics, and American Journal of Economics & Sociology. His research focuses on the nature and significance of cities and social networks for entrepreneurship and economic development.

Oscar Boyson is an NYC-based director and producer. He recently created the internet doc short "The Future of Cities", which explores themes in past, present, and future urbanization. Featuring interviews with thought leaders such as Edward Glaeser, Carlo Ratti, and Janette Sadik-Khan, the video introduces subjects and perspectives Boyson will continue to examine in a continuing series of urban stories. His credits as producer include Josh & Benny Safdie's Heaven Knows What and the upcoming Good Time, Noah Baumbach's Mistress America and Frances Ha, and the television series Neistat Brothers for HBO. His directing work includes the doc series Iconic for Apple TV's M2M, a series about the Art Market for artsy.net & UBS, and numerous other web pieces, video essays, short films, and commercials.

Peter Ryan is a startup enthusiast. He served as NYC President at The Kairos Society and now acts as an advisor. He leads community management at Splash, the premier event marketing software. Prior to that he's held positions at Gust, NYU's Entrepreneurial Institute, and Magna Investments. He received his B.A. from New York University in economics and double minor in business & web design. He led NYU’s CAS Entrepreneurship Association as President and NYU’s Entrepreneurs Festival as Co-Chair. In his spare time he also likes to produce and write films.