Rakhee Rajani leads Nextdoor's 'thriving cities' programme. Nextdoor is the neighbourhood network. It's free to everyone to join and connect with their local community. A thriving city is defined as one that has a good volume of neighbours on the platform an area, with kind and helpful conversations on the platform and a good ecosystem of small local businesses and local authorities - police, fire service, council - sharing helpful and timely information.  Our hope is that this online connection eventually turns into real-life friendships and a strong community. Rakhee's experience has been in Communications and PR for the past decade, helping raise the profile of many different organisations, from Ocado to Oliver Wyman.