Speakers
Opening Plenary
(Main Room | 9:00 – 10:00)
Julian Agyeman, Ph.D., FRSA, FRGS
Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University
Julian Agyeman Ph.D. FRSA FRGS is a Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University. He is the originator of the increasingly influential concept of just sustainabilities, the intentional integration of social justice and environmental sustainability. He centers his research on critical explorations of the complex and embedded relations between humans and the urban environment, whether mediated by governments or social movement organizations, and their effects on public policy and planning processes and outcomes, particularly in relation to notions of justice and equity.
He believes that what our cities can become (sustainable, smart, sharing and resilient) and who is allowed to belong in them (recognition of difference, diversity, and a right to the city) are fundamentally and inextricably interlinked. We must therefore act on both belonging and becoming, together, using just sustainabilities as the anchor, or face deepening spatial and social inequities and inequalities.
He is the author or editor of 12 books, including Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (MIT Press, 2003), Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability (MIT Press, 2011), and Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities (MIT Press, 2015), one of Nature’s Top 20 Books of 2015. In 2018, he was awarded the Athena City Accolade by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, for his “outstanding contribution to the field of social justice and ecological sustainability, environmental policy and planning“.
For a full biography please visit: https://julianagyeman.com
Renée Cheng, FAIA, DPACSA, NOMA
Dean of the College of Built Environments, University of Washington
Session speakers
Street Ecologies (Room A | 10:15 – 11:15)
Elizabeth Umbanhowar
PhD candidate and Senior Lecturer, Built Environment Program, University of Washington
umbanhow@uw.edu
Minda Martin
Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell
mindam@uw.edu
Kathleen Wolf
Research social scientist, School of Environment and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
Equitable Water Systems (Room A | 11:30 – 12:30)
Alpa Nawre
Assistant Professor, University of Florida; Executive Director, Critical Places; Partner, Alpa Nawre Design
alpa.nawre@ufl.edu
Leann Andrews, PhD, RLA, SEED
Assistant Professor, Penn State University; Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington; Co-Founder, Traction
LAndrews@psu.edu
Nancy Rottle, PLA, co-moderator
Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington; Director, Green Futures Lab
Jennifer Engelke, PLA, co-moderator
PhD Candidate, BE PhD program, University of Washington
Post-Pandemic Transportation (Room B | 10:15 – 11:15)
Giovanni Circella, PhD
Director, 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program, The Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis
Lamis Ashour
PhD student, Urban Design & Planning Interdisciplinary PhD program, University of Washington
Lamis21@uw.edu
Yiyuan Wang
PhD student, Urban Design & Planning Interdisciplinary PhD program, University of Washington
yiyuanw@uw.edu
Andrew Dannenberg, MD, MPH, moderator
Affiliate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning and Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
Transportation Equity (Room B | 11:30 – 12:30)
Stephen Wheeler, PhD
Professor, Department of Human Ecology, and Chair of the Community Development Graduate Group, University of California, Davis
smwheeler@ucdavis.edu
Anaid Yerena, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Urban Studies, University of Washington, Tacoma
yerena@uw.edu
Rubén Casas, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Tacoma
rcasas@uw.edu
Christine Bae, PhD, co-moderator
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington
Boyang Sa, co-moderator
PhD Candidate, University of Washington
Food Sustainability (Room A | 1:15 – 2:15)
Devon G. Peña, PhD
Professor of American Ethnic Studies and Anthropology, University of Washington; Founder and President, The Acequia Institute
dpena@uw.edu
Shannon Tyman
PhD candidate and Lecturer, Built Environment PhD Program, University of Washington
Branden Born, PhD, moderator
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Design, University of Washington
Informal Resilience and Urban Equity (Room A | 2:30 – 3:30)
Lauren Flemister
Community Planning Manager, City of Seattle
Adnya Sarasmita, PhD
Assistant Planner at the Urban Collaborative
adnya@urbancollaborative.com
Bo Peng, moderator
PhD student, BE PhD program, University of Washington
Creating Just Research Methods (Room A | 3:45 – 4:45)
Melanie Malone, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell
drmalone@uw.edu
Coco Alarcón
PhD student, Department of Global Health, University of Washington; Architect
cocoa84@uw.edu
Catherine De Almeida, moderator
Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
System Cycles & Justice (Room B | 1:15 – 2:15)
Barbara Rodriguez Droguett, PhD
Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Chile
Yohan Min
PhD Candidate, BE PhD Program, University of Washington
Gundula Proksch, moderator
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture; Director, Circular City + Living Systems Lab
Post-Pandemic Cities (Room B | 2:30 – 3:30)
John Owen
Partner Emeritus, MAKERS Architecture, Planning, and Urban Design, Seattle
Manish Chalana, PhD
Associate Professor, Urban Design and Planning, CBE, University of Washington
Jan Whittington, PhD, moderator
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington
Equitable Disaster Resilience (Room B | 3:45 – 4:45)
Andrew Rumbach, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Ann Bostrom, PhD
Professor, Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
Pranjali Rai, moderator
PhD student, Urban Design & Planning Interdisciplinary PhD program, University of Washington
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Closing Plenary
(Main Room | 5:00 – 6:00)
Dan Abramson, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington
Jan Whittington, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington; Director, Urban Infrastructure Lab
Jeff Hou, PhD
Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington; Director, Urban Commons Lab
Elizabeth Golden
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington
Carrie Sturts Dossick, PhD, moderator
Associate Dean for Research, College of Built Environments; P.D. Koon Professor, Department of Construction Management, University of Washington
Qing Shen, PhD, co-host
Professor, Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington; Chair and Director of the University of Washington Graduate School’s Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Urban Design and Planning
Alex Anderson, PhD, co-host
Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington; Director, PhD in the Built Environment Program; Director, Master of Science in Architectural History and Theory
