Russ Brooks is a Mobility Planner for the Public Works Department in the City of Minneapolis. He is responsible for the City’s Mobility Hub program and Secure Bike Parking project and assists with managing the shared bike and scooter program as well as the City’s SMART Grant curb management project. Before joining the city, was the Director of Smart Cities for Transportation for America. In 2016, Russ created and launched the Smart Cities Collaborative – a peer to peer learning network to bring together leading-edge cities to explore how technology can improve urban mobility and tackle the challenges related to advancing smart mobility policies and projects. Participant cities in the Collaborative received direct technical assistance, develop policies, launch pilot projects and share their experiences with the rest of the Collaborative to drive best practices.