Hazel Borys is President of PlaceMakers, LLC in the U.S. and PlaceMakers, Inc., in Canada, city planning firms working to advance the livability conversation. Borys and her team are passionate about resilient urban and rural places, and believe that diverse, character-rich neighborhoods can increase social wellbeing, financial resilience, and reverse the velocity of climate change. She guides governments around the world through policy and land use law reforms and helps developers get things built under form-based codes and bylaws. Hazel is an engineer with an MBA. She is coauthor of the Pandemic Toolkit, Codes Study, and Code Score and serves on the boards of the Winnipeg Foundation, the Manitoba Municipal Board, the Transect Codes Council.