Using a transdisciplinary systems approach, my research aims to  understand how the ways in which we build and shape cities affects environment, health, and justice. 

Urban Flood Risk
and Inequality

How do decision makers & stakeholders center racial justice in urban flood adaptation planning and evaluation?

Community-led Green Infrastructure Design

Does community engagement in urban planning make green infrastructure (and neighborhoods) more resilient ?

Urban Agriculture and Soil Lead

Urban agriculture and soil lead are often seen as competing interests - could gardening be part of the solution?

Heat Resilient
L.A.

How do we build effective and locally meaningful heat resilience that addresses the immediate need for relief?

Urban Vegetation and Shrinking Cities

Do we need to rethink environmental justice indicators for shrinking cities? Are they green, but not just?

Urban Tree Canopy and Environmental Justice


​Money may not grow on trees, but do trees grow on money?

Healthy Soils for
Healthy Communities

What do L.A. communities, active in urban soil work, value and prioritize for research and action?

Funding Community-University Partnerships

You've heard of seed money to support new research. Could soil money support community-university partnerships?

Soil Lead Contamination in the City

Cities are patchy places - can that patchiness be used to explain patterns of soil lead?