Amanda Colón-Smith

Amanda Colón-Smith is the Community Engagement Director at Rebuild (City of Philadelphia), a mayoral initiative focused on capital improvements to parks, recreation centers, and libraries. She works with non-profit partners, residents and stakeholders to guide over $400 million of investment into 72 selected sites across the city. She previously served as the Executive Director at a small neighborhood development corporation in St. Louis, where she worked with four south city neighborhoods on environmental justice, affordable housing and neighborhood planning projects. She is motivated by the promise of building vibrant communities for all, ones that center youth, integrate arts and culture, and cultivate equitable outcomes.