USC Cinematic Arts

Diana Lind is the Executive Director and Editor in Chief of Next American City. Begun as a quarterly magazine in 2003, Next American City is now a fully digital non-profit media organization dedicated to connecting cities and informing the people working to improve them. Next American City reaches an audience of 100,000 people each month through a weekly series of long-form, in-depth articles called Forefront, and a daily blog.

Next American City also runs the Storefront for Urban Innovation in Brewerytown. The Storefront hosts events and exhibits related to urban affairs in Philadelphia and around the world. The project was recently awarded a TED City 2.0 Award. Diana was a 2011 Van Alen Institute Fellow and is the author of Brooklyn Modern: Architecture, Interiors & Design (Rizzoli, 2008). She graduated from Cornell University (B.A., English) and Columbia University (M.F.A., Creative Writing). Her writing has been published in The New York Times, Architectural Record and many other publications and her work with Next American City has been profiled in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Monocle and many other media outlets.