Architecture & Urban Planning

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Adam Hasz

2017 Fellow
Adam Hasz is a Home Energy Rebates Implementation Advisor for the U.S. Department of Energy. He strives to advance a more equitable clean energy economy through research and planning. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Adam earned a...
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Bruni Pizarro

2017 Fellow
Bruni Pizarro (she/ella) is the Director of Brand Strategy & Partner at For La Diáspora, a creative studio that connects brands to the Latine community through culturally-driven design and bilingual communications. Her family migrated from...
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Miriam Solis

2017 Fellow
Miriam is a UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellow in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She specializes in environmental planning, with a specific focus on social justice, infrastructure, and sustainability. Her current project...
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Doug McPherson

2017 Fellow
Doug received his master's at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. His concentration is Housing, Community and Economic Development, and his research focuses on policies and initiatives that promote the development of open space...
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Zineb Bouzoubaa

2017 Fellow
Zineb Bouzoubaa is a Senior Data Climate Specialist at Bloomberg, where she is part of the newly-formed GFANZ (Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero) team. In this role, she uses data to drive the global financial sector’s work to ensure...
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Genie Bey

2017 Fellow
Genie Bey is an environmental professional with over a decade of experience advancing climate adaptation, environmental justice, and community resilience across public and nonprofit sectors. She co-leads NOAA’s Climate Adaptation Partnerships (CAP) program, managing a national portfolio of interdisciplinary, community-engaged research focused on extreme heat, flooding, wildfire, and displacement. Genie holds an M.A. in Geography from California State University, Long Beach, and dual B.S. degrees in Urban Ecology and Environmental & Sustainability Studies from the University of Utah.
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Cohen quoted on apparent hypocrisy of Trump budget on infrastructure

As the dust settles on President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts to critical transportation funding, Bay Area leaders are calling the plan hypocritical in light of the administration’s frequently touted but as yet unseen $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan.
April 5, 2017
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Urgo quoted on new FLEX service of AC Transit

The sleepy East Bay suburbs of Newark, Union City, Castro Valley and Fremont may seem like an unlikely locale for the latest battleground between public transit operators and ride-booking services, such as Uber and Lyft. But it’s here that AC Transit, which operates buses in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, is going bumper-to-bumper with the tech darlings, offering a competing service that blends on-demand rides with traditional bus routes. And, the agency says, it may just be working.
April 3, 2017
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Colorado's wild places: Deer today, gone tomorrow?

Fellow Sarah Reed argues for providing local communities in Colorado with the resources they need — including information about where important wildlife habitats are located, and planning tools and technical assistance to protect those habitats — to achieve a reasonable balance between conservation and development.
February 21, 2017
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Grove's research on Baltimore Ecosystem Study featured on podcast

About Grove's work and the Baltimore Ecosystem Study:
September 20, 2016