Jayne Engle
Mission Co-holder, Dark Matter Labs
Jayne Engle, Co-Editor and Co-Author, Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities, Co-Director of Participatory Canada
Jayne is committed to system transformations for the long term that are radically inclusive and caring, decolonizing and ennobling. She's an urbanist, strategist, experimentalist and curator of ecosystems and change processes.
She is the Co-Director of Participatory City Canada (a part of the Participatory City Global ecosystem), a collaborator on the City Experiment Fund in Eastern Europe with UNDP and ALC, and an Adjunct Professor at McGill University School of Urban Planning. She was until recently Director of Communities at the McConnell Foundation, where she curated the Cities & Places Portfolio – philanthropic work that fostered social and civic innovation and infrastructure for equitable and regenerative cities. Jayne has worked for 25 years in philanthropic leadership, city planning and community asset development, urban policy innovation, participatory research and collaborative governance design in the US and across Europe, Canada and the Caribbean.
She holds a PhD in Urban Planning, Policy & Design from McGill University in Montreal; a Master of Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Pittsburgh; and an MBA in real estate development and urban land studies from Temple University in Philadelphia.
