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Mushtaaq Ali

American Forests' Senior Manager of GIS and Data Science

Mushtaaq Ali (she/her/hers) with American Forests’ Resilient Forests program on conservation projects regarding large landscape reforestation as well as forest soil carbon.... Read more about Mushtaaq Ali

American Forests website

Kyla Bennett

Director of Science Policy at PEER

Kyla Bennett (she/her/hers) previously worked at EPA Region 1 for 10 years as a wetland permit reviewer and as the Region’s Wetlands Enforcement Coordinator. She is currently PEER’s Director for the Northeast and Midatlantic and PEER’s Director of Science Policy.... Read more about Kyla Bennett

PEER Website

J'reyesha Brannon

City of Portland

J'reyesha is making data more accessible for frontline communities, while exploring Portland's Urban Heat Dome and tree canopy equity.

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J'reyesha Brannon

CJDF Project Website

Pamela Conrad

Founder of Climate Positive Design

Pamela Conrad (she/her/hers) PLA, ASLA, LEED AP, is an internationally recognized landscape architect and climate advocate. As our world continues to face... Read more about Pamela Conrad

Climate Positive Design website

Catherine De Almeida

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington

Trained as a landscape architect and building architect, Catherine’s research examines the materiality and performance of waste landscapes through exploratory... Read more about Catherine De Almeida

University of Washington Website

Jill Desimini

Director and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Connecticut
Associate, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Jill Desimini is a landscape architect and program director and associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Connecticut...

Margaret Kosmala

Senior Data Scientist at CiBO Technologies

Margaret Kosmala (she/her/hers) is a global change ecologist with a focus on temporal dynamics of populations, communities, and ecosystems at local to continental scales.... Read more about Margaret Kosmala

Personal Website

Crystal Lee

Assistant Professor in Computational Media and Design at MIT

Crystal Lee (she/her/hers) is currently a Senior Fellow in Responsible Computer Science at Mozilla and an incoming Assistant Professor in Computational Media... Read more about Crystal Lee

MIT Website

Marian Miller

Education Program Manager Mystic River Watershed

Marian Miller (she/her/hers) helps people to see and understand ecological issues that impact their own communities. Her focus is on the hyper-local... Read more about Marian Miller

Mystic River Watershed Association website

Danielle Rivera

Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning at the University of California Berkeley

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.... Read more about Danielle Rivera

UC Berkeley Website

Laura K Robinson

The Neighborhood Design Center

Laura is creating an interactive advocacy tool that quantifies the environmental and economic benefits of climate resilient school landscapes.

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The Neighborhood Design Center

The Neighborhood Design Center Instagram

CJDF Project Website

Lily Song

Assistant Professor, Northeastern University School of Architecture and the School of Public Policy and Urban Planning

Dr. Lily Song (she/her/hers) is an urban planner and activist-scholar who specializes in studying and undertaking long-term community engagement practices in... Read more about Lily Song

Northeastern Website

Abby Spinak

Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Abby Spinak (she/her/hers) studies energy history, with a particular interest in the politics of utility ownership and the role of infrastructure in disseminating economic ideas. Her current research ties the history of electrification in the rural United States to the evolution of twentieth-century American capitalism and alternative economic visions.... Read more about Abby Spinak