Scott Kratz is the President & CEO of Building Bridges Across the River, a Ward 8 non-profit that manages THEARC - a 230,000 sq ft property in SE DC housing 14 arts / health / culture organizations, the Skyland Workforce Center, a network of 7 urban farms and the 11th Street Bridge Park - an aged out freeway bridge that is being transformed into the first elevated park in the nation's capital.

Scott lives a few blocks away from the Bridge Park site in Capitol Hill and has called Washington DC his home for the last 19+ years. He graduated with a history degree from Pomona College in Southern California and has worked in the education field for twenty+ years. He began his career teaching at Kidspace, a children’s museum in Pasadena, California and later as the Associate Director of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles. While at the Autry, he supervised a staff that planned and implemented programs including film, music, festivals, family programs, lecture series, academic symposia and Native theater. He moved to Washington DC to become the Vice President for Education at the National Building Museum. Scott is honored to serve on the board of the Anacostia Coordinating Council and the Anacostia Business Improvement District.