Jenna Pearse-Pollack is an urban planner, artist, researcher, and cultural strategist. She currently serves as the Community Development Director of the Oak Park Regional Housing Center, and was previously the Program Manager for the Chicago Community Wealth Building Ecosystem (CCWBE) at UIC. Through her independent shop Solidarity Works Chicago LLC, Jenna collaborates on solidarity economy projects through strategic planning, policy development, and media production. Jenna serves on the Archiving Advisory Board for the Chicago Black Social Culture Map, and is a board member of Links Hall and Springboard Danse. Her research on local dance, adaptive reuse, and urban renewal appears in Dancing on the Third Coast: Chicago Dance Histories.