Aspart of our series about the lessons from influential ‘TasteMakers’, I had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Kai Campbell. Campbell, born and raised in the city of Newark, Jersey, is what he self describes as an envisionary, working in distressed urban development, most interested in the “vertical” development and improvement of his hometown. Receiving his formal economic education at The University of Virginia, Kai first labored as a municipal economist and later running his own shop. Kai has worked in the arena of economic development his entire career, helping to change culture and sk...