Professor and Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle. Focusing on design activism, public space, and cross-cultural placemaking, he is an author and editor of several books, including Greening Cities, Growing Community: Learning from Seattle’s Urban Community Gardens, Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities, and Transcultural Cities: Border-Crossing and Placemaking. In a career that spans across the Pacific, he has worked with indigenous tribes, farmers, and fishers in Taiwan; neighborhood residents in Japan; villagers in China; and inner-city immigrant youths and elders in North American cities.
Elyse Gordon
Elyse Gordon is a PhD student in Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle, and is pursuing a Certificate in Public Scholarship through the Simpson Center for the Humanities. Her research explores social justice philanthropy as a creative and collective response to state restructuring and conventional forms of nonprofit giving. She is also a co-organizer of Eat for Equity Seattle, an organization that asks people to give what they can for local nonprofits through sustainable community feasts.