Ashwat Narayanan

Executive Director, Our Streets Minneapolis

Ashwat is the executive director of Our Streets Minneapolis, an organization dedicated to improving walking, biking and rolling infrastructure in the city. He is a nationally recognized expert on building more just, sustainable and resilient transportation infrastructure. He represents District 8 (much of Minneapolis) on Metropolitan Council’s Transportation Advisory Board (TAB). He was appointed to Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Sustainable Transportation Advisory Committee (STAC). Ash has authored or co-authored numerous reports, including The Road to Clean Transportation: A Bold, Broad, Strategy to Cut Pollution and Reduce Carbon Emissions in the Midwest, and Arrive Together: Transportation Access and Equity in Wisconsin. He also authored the transportation section of St. Paul’s Climate Action Plan. Ash serves on the advisory board of Move Minneapolis, the steering committee of the Twin Cities Shared Use Mobility Center and on the Board of Directors of The Alliance for Metropolitan Stability.