Advocate for Livable Cities

Ryan has been in love with cities since childhood and has lived in several, including New York, Boston, San Francisco, London, Madrid, Tokyo, and now Austin. While he has written professionally as an equity research analyst and elsewhere on a range of political and cultural topics, his experience building and managing Montessori schools in New York and San Francisco galvanized his interest in urbanism and local politics. In Austin, he sits on the Austin Monitor’s Strategic Advisory Council and the board of AURA, Austin’s grassroots urbanist organization, and has been active in the local and state housing reform movement.

Gourmand for Life

Ryan loves to entertain and can regularly be found at home preparing gourmet meals and sharing wine with friends, often inspired by his travels abroad with his husband. When not at home, Ryan is usually eating at some great local restaurant, listening to live music at the Austin Symphony or Stubb’s, working out at the gym downtown, or taking his Boston Terrier for a walk around the neighborhood. He loves architecture and design, he’s written one (unpublished) novel, he reads avidly, and he’s been involved in only one horse stampede.