MODERATORS AND PANELISTS
Session A
Water Quality
Moderator: Kathleen Baskin, Water Resources, Environment, and Climate Change Strategist
Panelist: Patrick Herron, Executive Director, Mystic River Watershed Association
Panelist: Jennifer Letourneau, Cambridge Conservation Commission Director, City of Cambridge
Panelist: David Wu, Program Manager, Environmental Compliance and Monitoring, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority
Biodiversity (site/local scale)
Moderator: Rebecca Quinones, Rivers and Streams Project Leader and Climate Change Coordinator, Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife
Panelist: Juli Riemenschneider, RLA, ASLA, Senior Landscape Architect, Green International Affiliates; Faculty, Boston Architectural College School of Landscape Architecture; Member, Town of Winchester Design Review Committee
Panelist: Elaine Vreeland, Attorney, Conservation Agent, Winchester Conservation Commission and Wakefield Conservation Commission
Panelist: Ellen Mass, President, Friends of Alewife Reservation
Panelist: Avalon C.S. Owens, PhD Candidate in Biology, Tufts University, Lewis Lab
Emergency Preparedness & Transit
Moderator: Antje Danielson, Director of Education, MIT Energy Initiative; Zip-Car Co-founder; Earthos Institute Board Member; Former Director, Tufts University Institute of the Environment
Panelist: Craig Kelley, City Councillor, Cambridge City Council; Research Fellow, Harvard University, Metropolitan Resiliency and Democratic Institutions; Director of Legal Strategies and Resiliency Services, Climate Resources Group
Panelist: Todd Fontanella, Transit Project Manager, Central Massachusetts Regional Planning Commission
Session B
Hazardous Sites & Rising Water Table
Moderator: Larissa Brown, PhD, AICP, Principal, Stantec's Urban Places Group
Panelist: Eric Grunebaum, Principal, Cambridge Energy Advisors; Co-founder Friends of Jerry’s Pond (fmk as Jerry’s Pond Action Committee)
Panelist: Janet Carter Bernardo, PE, LEED AP BD + C, Senior Project Manager, Horsley Witten Group, Inc.
Panelist: Ellen Douglas, PhD, Associate Professor of Hydrology, University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment; Graduate Program Director, MS/PhD programs in Environmental Sciences and Marine Science & Technology
Flooding
Moderator: Charles Norris, Founding Principal, Architect and Waterfront Planner, Norris & Norris Associates
Panelist: Katherine Watkins, Assistant Commissioner, City Engineer, Cambridge, DPW
Panelist: Jonathan Lamontagne, Assistant Professor, Tufts University, Civic and Environmental Engineering
Panelist: Julie Wormser, Independent Consultant, North Cambridge Consulting
Social Justice, Economy, Community Health
Moderator: Elijah Plymesser, Public Involvement Specialist, Howard Stein Hudson; Former Neighborhood Revitalization Manager/Data Communications Project Manager, The Neighborhood Developers, Chelsea
Panelist: Van Hardy, President, Board of Directors, Somerville Community Corporation (SCC)
Panelist: Eugene Benson, Environmental and Land Use Lawyer; Adjunct Faculty, Boston University Metropolitan College; Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health; Chair of the Board of Directors at GreenRoots, Chelsea; Member, Arlington Redevelopment Board
Panelist: Nadeem Mazen, Chief Rocket Pilot, Nimblebot Digital Creative Agency; Former City Councilor, City of Cambridge
Session C
Climate Change
Moderator: Ann Rappaport, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, and Co-chair, Sustainability Council, Tufts University
Panelist: Sarah Slaughter, CEO, President and Executive Director, Built Environment Coalition; Visting Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Panelist: Jonathan Lamontagne, Assistant Professor, Tufts University, Civic and Environmental Engineering
Panelist: Phil Loheed, Principal, DP+ Architects; Co-founder and President, Earthos Institute; Faculty Boston Architectural College
Panelist: Alicia Hunt, Director of Energy and Environment, City of Medford
Collaborative Infrastructure
Moderator: Patricia Schroeder Loheed, FASLA, Founding Board Member Earthos; Distinguished Faculty and Past Head of BAC School of Landscape Architecture
Panelist: Jim Newman, Principal, Linnean Solutions, LLC; Chair, Board of Directors, U.S. Green Building Council, Mass Chapter
Panelist: Alexander Felson, Associate Professor, Yale University, School of Architecture and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Science
Panelist: Kathleen Baskin, Water Resources, Environment, and Climate Change Strategist
Biodiversity & Open Space
Moderator: Adam Sacks, Executive Director, Biodiversity for a Livable Climate
Panelist: Amber Christoffersen, Greenway Director, Mystic River Watershed Association
Panelist: Kevin Benham, M.Arch, MLA, Jon Emerson/Wayne Womack Endowed Professor, Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture College of Art and Design, Louisiana State University; Former Director, Landscape Architecture Foundation Studies at Boston Architectural College
Panelist: Clay Larson, Environmental Designer Consultant; Project Manager, Bike to the Sea Inc.
Panelist: Hannah Carlson, RLA, Landscape Architect, Horsley Witten Group
Closing Panel
Moderator: Antje Danielson, Director of Education, MIT Energy Initiative; Zip-Car Co-founder; Earthos Institute Board Member; Former Director, Tufts University Institute of the Environment
Panelist: Ann Rappaport, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, and Co-chair, Sustainability Council, Tufts University
Panelist: Jim Newman, Principal, Linnean Solutions, LLC; Chair, Board of Directors, U.S. Green Building Council, Mass Chapter
Panelist: Robert France, Associate Professor, Dalhousie University, Department of Environmental Sciences; Science Advisor, Harvard University, Center of Technology and the Environment
Panelist: Alexander Felson, Associate Professor, Yale University, School of Architecture and Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Science
Panelist: Alicia Hunt, Director of Energy and Environment, City of Medford