Jill

Jill Slater has a Masters degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley, attending Wesleyan University as an undergraduate. For eight years, she worked for the city of San Francisco on their city wide policy–addressing issues such as jobs/housing balance, preservation of light industrial businesses, pedestrian oriented urban design, and gentrification.

While living and working in San Francisco, Jill moonlighted for four years as producer and guest host of City Visions, a talk radio show on the NPR affiliate, KALW. There, Jill was inspired by a diverse range of relevant burning issues — from organic farming to transgender populations, suicide to overmedicating ADHD children, the alternative arts scene to the proliferation of green businesses.

Upon returning to her home town of New York City, Jill has shifted her focus to sustainable agriculture, with a focus on its impact on urban environments. In 2005, she co-founded New Amsterdam Public, a non-profit dedicated to creating a permanent, indoor, sustainable public market at the South Street Seaport in Lower Manhattan. Since then, she’s consulted on a variety of food events, conferences, and symposiums and made a short documentary about Israel’s progressive food movement.

Jill writes as well… about interior design for apartmenttherapy.com, about office design for 3dofficefurniture.com and about open space for opencityprojects.com.

And when she’s not doing any of the above, Jill sews and knits her own clothes, dances, bikes everywhere she goes, and takes a plethora of photos of inanimate objects.