The Mayor
Mayor Ron Nirenberg was elected Mayor of San Antonio in June 2017. Prior to his election, he served San Antonio's District 8 City Council from 2013 to 2017. During his tenure, Councilman Nirenberg has focused on solutions to San Antonio’s deepest challenges, including improving transportation infrastructure, ensuring the city’s sustainability through environmental and economic initiatives, embracing new technology, closing the workforce skills gap and creating jobs.
As comprehensive planning committee chairman, he played an instrumental role in guiding the development of the SA Tomorrow plan, a citizen-driven blueprint for the city’s future that will help city leaders prepare for significant population growth. It will improve the quality of life for residents by focusing on a range of solutions that include equitable housing policies, transportation reform, health and wellness initiatives, natural resource management and economic development proposals. He is also the chairman of several critical committees that work to build a resilient city on the national and local levels.
Experienced in business and policy, Councilman Nirenberg is a former program director for the Annenberg Public Policy Center, where he developed and directed award-winning civic engagement programs in cities across the United States, including San Antonio. He is also the former General Manager of Trinity University’s KRTU-FM and the founder of two small businesses.
A graduate of Trinity University (B.A.) and the University of Pennsylvania (M.A.), Councilman Nirenberg and his wife Erika Prosper, a respected business and community leader, are proud parents of their son, Jonah.