Trinity Simons Wagner has served as the Executive Director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) since 2012. She’s dedicated to helping mayors lead with design, move boldly, and foster equitable outcomes through policy. At MICD, she’s worked directly with 500+ mayors and lead 75+ Institute Sessions, the Institute’s flagship program connecting mayors with design leaders on the nation’s most pressing urban planning and design challenges. Trinity’s leadership has been instrumental in building MICD programs to better support America’s mayors. She recently led the development of Mayors’ Virtual Seminars, MICD Alumni Advising, and the MICD Just City Mayoral Fellowship in partnership with the Just City Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Under her watch in 2021, MICD was awarded the Landscape Architecture Foundation’s Founders’ Award, its highest honor for organizations.She is an active speaker at universities, events, and symposia nationwide, and she currently serves on the board of directors for the Landscape Architecture Foundation. Her ability to bridge the worlds of design and governance has made her a spark of inspiration and innovation in urban development.Trinity previously directed the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship, a prestigious program for emerging architects to achieve design excellence in affordable housing. Trinity has a Bachelor of Architecture from the Fay Jones School at the University of Arkansas and a Master of City Planning with a focus on city design and real estate development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.