Lucas Grindley

Lucas Grindley is the executive director of Next City, which leverages solutions-based journalism to spread workable ideas from one city to the next with the vision of reimagining cities as places of economic, environmental and racial justice. Prior to joining Next City in 2018, Grindley spent several years at Pride Media, where he became president after serving as editor in chief of The Advocate magazine and being twiced named LGBTQ journalist of the year by NLGJA. He previously covered politics and policymaking at National Journal.