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An-Min Wu

An-Min is an Assistant Professor in the Spatial Sciences Institute at University of Southern California. She teaches spatial analytics and spatial econometrics, and her research interests are in the intersection of socioeconomic development and environmental sustainability. Her current research focuses on soil pollution particularly on the distributions of soil lead (Pb) contamination, their impact on community health, and the implication of environmental justice. She has been a member of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) since 2016 and a Faculty At-Large member at the AAG HDGC Specialty Group since 2020. She also serves on the Board of Directors for California Geographic Information Association. See more about her here. 

Kelsea Best

Kelsea is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering and the City and Regional Planning section of the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University. Her research broadly aims to understand how climate change interacts with human societies and wellbeing, how people may adapt to climate change, and how climate adaptation measures can be designed and implemented in a just and equitable way. Some of her current research projects include studying interactions between future sea level rise and transportation infrastructure, equity in disaster aid and disaster recovery processes in the U.S., effects of natural hazards and climate effects on housing security, and climate migration in coastal Bangladesh. 

Holly Caggiano

Holly is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment and an incoming Assistant Professor in University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning. She received her Ph.D. in Planning and Public Policy from Rutgers in 2021 and holds a BS in Environmental Policy, Institutions, and Behavior. As a broadly trained environmental social scientist, Holly’s current research focuses on equitable energy transitions, including identifying pathways to broad public support for utility-scale renewable energy projects that benefit communities. Her work examines the formation of local and regional stakeholder coalitions and the narratives they form around energy transition politics in relation to economic revitalization, labor organization, and notions of procedural and distributional justice. Learn more about Holly’s work here. 

Jason Hawes

Jason “Jake” Hawes is a PhD student in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Urban Sustainability Research Group with Dr. Joshua Newell, studying adaptation in food-energy-water systems. Specifically, his dissertation couple geography-grounded lenses like political-industrial ecology with tools from engineering and spatial sciences to study the role of urban agriculture in future cities. Hawes received a BS in Environmental and Ecological Engineering and MS in Natural Resources Social Science, both from Purdue University. His primary undergraduate research focused on drinking water, investigating recovery after municipal water contamination events in the US and evaluating novel methods of water supply in rural communities in the Dominican Republic. His MS thesis studied agricultural adaptation to water scarcity in the Eastern Snake River Plain of Idaho.

Shaylynn Trego

Shaylynn Trego is a doctoral student in Geography at Arizona State University and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. She is committed to conducting socially relevant research on human-environment interactions, particularly how people can cope with increasingly extreme heat, and helping to translate that research into action. She aims to enhance her knowledge about how social and spatial inequalities in human-environment relationships differentially affect people’s well-being, and how knowledge of human-environmental relationships can clarify avenues for potentially enhancing overall well-being for people in urban areas.