• Freda H. Alverson Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School

• Founder & CEO, National Zoning Atlas/National Preservation Atlas

• Author, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World

Sara C. Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, George Washington University professor, National Zoning Atlas and National Preservation Atlas founder, and author of Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World.

Sara C. Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, George Washington University professor, and changemaker whose interdisciplinary work focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places. She wrote Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, and she founded and leads the National Zoning Atlas and National Preservation Atlas, which illuminate land use rules influencing our economy, society, health, and happiness. She also served in a Presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed role chairing the federal historic preservation agency.

Sara C. Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, George Washington University professor, and changemaker whose interdisciplinary work focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places. She wrote Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, and she founded and leads the National Zoning Atlas and National Preservation Atlas, which illuminate land use rules influencing our economy, society, health, and happiness. To support and accelerate this work, she founded Land Use Labs, a mission-driven enterprise that provides industry-leading zoning data that informs policy, development, and research.

As a scholar, Bronin has (co-)authored two treatises, four books, and dozens of articles. She has been a reformer in public roles at the local, state, and federal levels, including a Presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed role chairing the federal historic preservation agency. She holds a J.D. from Yale (Truman Scholarship), M.Sc. from the University of Oxford (Rhodes Scholarship), and B.Architecture and B.A. in Plan II from the University of Texas. A seventh-generation Texan, Sara is a native Houstonian.

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