Lisa Helps is the Executive Lead for project origination at BC Builds, a provincial initiative delivering affordable homes for middle-income British Columbians. A key architect behind the program, she helped design and secure its initial funding while serving as Housing Solutions Advisor in the Premier’s Office. Prior to that, she served two terms as mayor of Victoria, where she led major work on housing, climate resilience, and economic transformation. Helps continues to focus on complex, systems-level change by working with communities to build inclusive, resilient cities for the future.