Jill Dabbs, the current Executive Director for Downtown Springdale Alliance and the former Mayor of Bryant, Arkansas, is a connector. She has an incredible ability to connect people with other people, designing solutions for opportunities. Serving as Bryant’s Mayor from 2011 to 2018, Jill helped lead Bryant to be a place that continues to grow its quality of life rating and its economic resiliency. Her readiness and enthusiasm for helping cities meet their goals has not gone unnoticed, and her vision has been embraced by both local and state leaders. While serving as Mayor she signed into law numerous urban development policies including a form-based code and master plan, a master Walk Bike Drive plan that also included a master lighting plan. These policies will encourage sprawl repair where needed and better guide new development for years to come. When she is not passionately working with others to build more livable cities, she is spending time with her family, bicycling with friends, snow skiing or talking about any of the three mentioned above. Energy is her middle name. She loves to travel as well as offer her services and experiences when needed as a presenter on many topics affecting municipalities. Jill spoke in Atlanta at the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors and spoke in 2019 at the Congress for New Urbanism. Jill has served on the executive board of the Arkansas Municipal League as 2nd Vice President, President of Metroplan in 2018. She is an alumni of the State Chamber Leadership Arkansas program and continues to be active with this group of state leaders. She graduated from the Community Development Institute program at UCA and served on the board of the Southwest Trail. Since she has been leading the revitalization of Downtown Springdale there is 200,000,0000 in redevelopment underway, a vibrant and diverse music and art scene is emerging in partnership with Cache and Interform, the redesign for Luther George Park is complete and will be under construction soon. The Jones Center Campus in undergoing a 52-acre redesign, numerous businesses have expanded and opened even through a pandemic. The downtown masterplan is coming to life as residential housing, mixed use developments, and the development of the arts district is unfolding. The façade grant program will be completed in 2021 as well as seven new murals through grants acquired by the Downtown Springdale Alliance.