Preferred Name: Laura

Last Name: Fingal-Surma

Degree String (Type, Year): ('06)

Job Title: Founder

Company Name: Urbanist Ventures

Bio: I built the machine powering YIMBY chapters across the United States, and now I’m building a machine to grow and support urbanist startups. Urbanist Ventures is for investors, founders, activists, and everyone in between. YIMBY is short for Yes In My Back Yard, a now popular political movement fighting to increase the supply of housing and dense, vibrant, walkable communities. “I … think of the YIMBYs as one of the much more consequential policy movements I’ve seen emerge” — Ezra Klein, The New York Times Learn more and subscribe for updates → https://urbanist.vc