Melissa Barry

Biography: Melissa Barry is Vice President of Planning at the Downtown Austin Alliance, where she focuses on planning for the future of Austin's rapidly growing downtown. With over 20 years of experience in public, private, and nonprofit sectors, she has been immersed in a wide range of planning and design challenges in communities of all sizes. In downtown Austin, she led the public-private partnership to transform historic Republic Square, the award-winning Downtown Parking Strategy, the Downtown Austin Vision and she is currently leading a major effort to create a community vision for the I-35 corridor through downtown Austin.