Allison Lirish Dean is a writer and media maker based in Portland, Oregon. She hosts and produces Ear to the Pavement, a podcast about urban planning and politics, in association with Progressive City Magazine. Allison researched and produced the award-winning documentary film My Brooklyn (2012), which has been used as an organizing tool by anti-displacement activists around the world. She has covered arts, gender, and urban planning and policy issues for outlets such as Studio 360, Next City, HuffPost, Gotham Gazette, Progressive Planning, and The Brooklyn Rail.