Robin Abad Ocubillo (co-chair of the board of directors at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco) is a dedicated public servant with a passion for civic innovation in public space design, planning, evaluation, and policy. For over the last decade, Robin has led several of placemaking programs at the City and County of San Francisco during a period of intensive growth.  From 2020-2023, he served a 3-year term as Director of Shared Spaces San Francisco, helping communities leverage the public realm for economic recovery, social and psychological well-being. Shared Spaces program builds on Places for People, the first placemaking ordinance of its kind in the country to streamline government processes and lower barriers for communities creating and stewarding public spaces in underutilised streets and lots. He ran the City’s parklet program over several iterations, increasing the parklet population from thirty to the hundreds, expanding partnerships to cultural and community institutions, and overseeing the development of an award-winning Parklet Manual. He has also extensively developed research methods and metrics for human-use evaluation of public spaces and is a co-author of the Global Public Life Data Protocol. Robin also works intensively in the spheres of arts as social praxis. These include roles as principal curator with the San Francisco Urban Film Festival, bringing communities together around civics and storytelling.  He serves on the screening committee for the SF International LGBTQ Film Festival and is a former resident of  Film & Civics at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. He was editor of Open Space Magazine at SFMOMA titled ‘Participatory Urbanism,’ which interrogated the promise and problems of public space; asking who participates — and how — in constructing urban places. He has organised programs at the Global Cultural Districts Network, PPS Placemaking Week and Placemaking Europe; and served on several international design juries. His fiduciary governance service includes lluminate the Arts, Harvey Milk Plaza, and LYRIC. Robin currently serves in the City Administrator’s office of Oakland, across the Bay from San Francisco, in a newly created role centring on citywide equity and neighbourhood resiliency through civic innovation across departments and agencies.