Danielle Zoe Rivera (she/her/ hers) is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning at the University of California Berkeley. She is part of a university-wide initiative focused on climate equity and environmental justice. Rivera directs the Just Environments Lab, which seeks to center concerns of social justice and equity in discussions of the future of our environment. Her work examines environmental planning, urban design, and community development. Within these spaces, she focuses on issues of environmental justice and climate equity affecting low-income communities with high flood risk. Her current work leverages community-based research and design methods to identify and address environmental injustices affecting low-income communities throughout South Texas, the Bay Area, and Puerto Rico. She has conducted past research in Southeast Michigan, the Philadelphia region, and the Denver region. She holds a PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan, a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Pennsylvania State University