Dr. Carrie Mitchell is an urban researcher at the University of Waterloo with more than thirty years of experience working on cities across three continents. She spent the first part of her career in South and Southeast Asia as a graduate student and later as a Senior Program Officer with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), working on community-based waste, water, and sanitation systems and climate adaptation. Back in Canada, her research shifted to urban resilience implementation before finding its current focus: community-based applied research on street safety and the evidence that shapes urban decisions. The geography has changed, but the question hasn't: which voices shape urban decisions, and which ones never make it into decision-making processes? That question followed her home, to her own neighbourhood and the unsettling realization that she didn't feel safe letting her daughter walk or ride her bike to school. She founded CORE Planning Lab to close the gap between what research finds and what cities actually do. She teaches planning theory, research methods, and urban services planning at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of Waterloo.