Jayne Engle

Montreal

Jayne Engle is curator of Cities for People, an urban innovation network to create more resilient and livable cities. She has practiced participatory urban planning and development in many countries and contexts in the global north and south. A common thread that runs through her work is a commitment to inclusive and meaningful community engagement and progressive planning agendas that lead to creating more ecologically-healthy, people-centered cities. She has carried out most of her planning and policy work from within civil society organizations. Jayne was co-convenor of the Ecocity World Summit in 2011 in Montreal. She is currently a PhD candidate at McGill University School of Urban Planning investigating reconstruction and social change dynamics in post-earthquake Haiti, engaging participatory research methods. She holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning and an MBA, and is a professional city planner in the US and Canada. Jayne currently lives in Montreal.