Jay Pitter: After establishing a career in public funding and marketing communications, Jay Pitter earned a Masters in Environmental Studies at York University, where she investigated crime prevention through environmental design and urban place-making. She is also a writer and part-time professor.
John Lorinc: John Lorinc is a Toronto journalist who writes about urban affairs, politics, and business for publications such as Spacing magazine, the Globe and Mail and The Walrus. He is the author of The New City: How the Crisis in Canada's Urban Centres Is Reshaping The Nation (Penguin, 2006) and co-editor of The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood (Coach House, 2015).
John Lorinc is a journalist and editor. He reports on urban affairs, politics, business, technology, and local history for a range of media, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Walrus, Maclean’s, and Spacing, where he is senior editor. John is the author of three books, including The New City (Penguin, 2006) and Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias (Coach House Books, 2022), and has coedited four other anthologies for Coach House Books: The Ward (2015), Subdivided (2016), Any Other Way (2017), and The Ward Uncovered (2018). John is the recipient of the 2019/2020 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy. He lives in Toronto.
