Jessica Christiansen-Franks

Jessica Christiansen-Franks is an urban designer and social entrepreneur who has dedicated her career to understanding the social dynamics of urbanisation. With experience across Australia, as well as the UK, Canada, India, Vietnam and the Philippines, Jessica has been fortunate enough to advise the public and private sectors, along with major international aid agencies.

Jessica is a programme advisor at CoDesign Studio, helping to steer Australia’s largest community-led placemaking initiative: the Neighbourhood Project. She is also co-founder and CEO of Neighbourlytics, a social analytics platform for neighbourhood development.