Public Policy Scholar David Rusk spoke at White House Forum on First Suburbs on Monday, July 18. The White House Forum brought together 140 mayors, mayors, city council members, township supervisors, school board members and superintendents, and county officials from First Suburbs in 22 metro areas and 15 states for a half-day conference with senior Obama administration officials. One of the USA’s leading regionalists, Rusk chairs Building One America, organizers of the conference at the request of the White House.