The Urbanist

Stephen is a professional urban planner in Puget Sound with a passion for sustainable, livable, and diverse cities. With stints in great cities like Bellingham and Cork, Stephen currently lives in Seattle. He has written for The Urbanist since 2014.

Doug Trumm is publisher of The Urbanist, and has written for the organization since 2015. He lives in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle and enjoys exploring the city by bike or foot.

Ryan Packer has written for The Urbanist since 2015 and is now reporting full-time as Contributing Editor. They cover transportation, land use, public space, traffic safety, and community meetings. They live in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Natalie Bicknell Argerious is The Urbanist's former managing editor. A passionate urban explorer since childhood, she loves learning how to make cities more inclusive, vibrant, and environmentally resilient. She left Seattle to move to Portugal.

Nathan Vass is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, and author by day, and a Metro bus driver by night. He has directed nine films, six of which have shown at festivals. His book, The Lines That Make Us, is a Seattle bestseller.

Ray Dubicki is a stay-at-home dad and an attorney and urbanist by training, with soup-to-nuts planning experience from code enforcement to university development to writing zoning ordinances.

Owen is a solutions engineer for a software company. He has an amateur interest in urban policy, focusing on housing. His primary mode is a bicycle but isn't ashamed of riding down the hill and taking the bus back up. He lives on Beacon Hill.

"Amy Sundberg publishes Notes from the Emerald City, a weekly newsletter on Seattle politics and policy focusing on public safety, police accountability, and the criminal legal system. She also writes science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels."