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Her practice bridges art, design, and ecological innovation, aiming to reimagine how communities interact with and give back to the natural world.
Her practice bridges art, design, and ecological innovation, aiming to reimagine how communities interact with and give back to the natural world.
regenerative building materials that benefit both nature and human health. Blending design, material innovation, and sustainable practices, Ashli develops projects that address environmental challenges while creating resilient, socially conscious outcomes.
regenerative building materials that benefit both nature and human health. Blending design, material innovation, and sustainable practices, Ashli develops projects that address environmental challenges while creating resilient, socially conscious outcomes.
Ashli Marino Watson is an impact entrepreneur and industrial designer with a background in architecture and agriculture. Her project, Invasive Matters PBC, focuses on ecological restoration and regenerative design, transforming invasive plant biomass into non-toxic,
Ashli Marino Watson is an impact entrepreneur and industrial designer with a background in architecture and agriculture. Her project, Invasive Matters PBC, focuses on ecological restoration and regenerative design, transforming invasive plant biomass into non-toxic,
As a 2025 Aronson Fellow alongside Kynal Coleman, she is developing Slow Circuits, a refurbished-technology rental and repair library designed that aims to cultivate collective access and digital resilience.
As a 2025 Aronson Fellow alongside Kynal Coleman, she is developing Slow Circuits, a refurbished-technology rental and repair library designed that aims to cultivate collective access and digital resilience.
As a Design and Urban Ecologies master’s student and Social Impact Fellow, she focuses on community-based solutions that confront the extractive socio-ecological realities embedded in contemporary technologies to envision more just digital urban ecologies.
As a Design and Urban Ecologies master’s student and Social Impact Fellow, she focuses on community-based solutions that confront the extractive socio-ecological realities embedded in contemporary technologies to envision more just digital urban ecologies.
Antonia is a designer and researcher whose work seeks to rebalance the relationship between nature and technology within urban ecosystems.
Antonia is a designer and researcher whose work seeks to rebalance the relationship between nature and technology within urban ecosystems.
her research centers care as essential economic infrastructure & examines unpaid care labor policies in Latin America. She will focus on COP30’s aftermath & how global climate governance centers, or not, debates over care, climate, & women’s livelihoods.
her research centers care as essential economic infrastructure & examines unpaid care labor policies in Latin America. She will focus on COP30’s aftermath & how global climate governance centers, or not, debates over care, climate, & women’s livelihoods.
She holds a degree in International Relations from the University of São Paulo and has over seven years of experience advancing inclusive development through work with international organizations.
Pursuing an MA in International Affairs at The New School,
She holds a degree in International Relations from the University of São Paulo and has over seven years of experience advancing inclusive development through work with international organizations.
Pursuing an MA in International Affairs at The New School,
Fernanda Rebelato is a Brazilian researcher and practitioner focused on intersectional, gender-transformative approaches to women’s livelihoods and economic inclusion.
Fernanda Rebelato is a Brazilian researcher and practitioner focused on intersectional, gender-transformative approaches to women’s livelihoods and economic inclusion.
Her practice bridges scientific research, urban policy, and design innovation, advancing strategies that restore ecosystems, modernize industrial zones, and support equitable, future-ready coastal cities.
Her practice bridges scientific research, urban policy, and design innovation, advancing strategies that restore ecosystems, modernize industrial zones, and support equitable, future-ready coastal cities.
Sofya is an Associate Landscape Architect at EDSA and a Senior Designer at Second Nature Ecology + Design, contributing to major international resilience and ecological design projects.
Sofya is an Associate Landscape Architect at EDSA and a Senior Designer at Second Nature Ecology + Design, contributing to major international resilience and ecological design projects.
She is a Ph.D. candidate at The New School, where her work focuses on integrating Nature-Based Solutions into New York City’s reindustrialized estuary through a social-ecological-technological systems framework with a strong emphasis on environmental justice.
She is a Ph.D. candidate at The New School, where her work focuses on integrating Nature-Based Solutions into New York City’s reindustrialized estuary through a social-ecological-technological systems framework with a strong emphasis on environmental justice.
Sofya Krasnay is an urban designer and researcher specializing in ecological and climate-responsive planning for reindustrialized waterfronts.
Sofya Krasnay is an urban designer and researcher specializing in ecological and climate-responsive planning for reindustrialized waterfronts.
confront extractive systems & reimagine our linear relationship to waste. Working in tandem w/ Antonia Simon as a '25 Aronson Fellow, she's excited to develop solutions for slowing the tech life cycle by developing an accessible, community-driven model for tech repair & rental
confront extractive systems & reimagine our linear relationship to waste. Working in tandem w/ Antonia Simon as a '25 Aronson Fellow, she's excited to develop solutions for slowing the tech life cycle by developing an accessible, community-driven model for tech repair & rental
As an Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management master’s student and a Public Engagement Fellow, Kyndal focuses on fostering ecologically responsible and communally rooted solutions to waste remediation that challenge norms of overconsumption,
As an Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management master’s student and a Public Engagement Fellow, Kyndal focuses on fostering ecologically responsible and communally rooted solutions to waste remediation that challenge norms of overconsumption,
Kyndal is an e-waste steward, creative, and scholar-activist from Villa Rica, Georgia, whose work centers on cultivating regenerative and community-centered approaches to waste remediation.
Kyndal is an e-waste steward, creative, and scholar-activist from Villa Rica, Georgia, whose work centers on cultivating regenerative and community-centered approaches to waste remediation.
and build toward a liberatory future. She's currently getting her MFA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) at the New School and is co-editing an anthology on Blackness, Queerness, and Nature to be published by Milkweed Editions.
and build toward a liberatory future. She's currently getting her MFA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction) at the New School and is co-editing an anthology on Blackness, Queerness, and Nature to be published by Milkweed Editions.
and an unflinching orientation toward abundance and collective liberation. She founded The Lupine Collaborative (TLC), a literary organization advancing environmental and climate justice by abundantly resourcing Black women, non-binary, and transgender people to dream, ideate,
and an unflinching orientation toward abundance and collective liberation. She founded The Lupine Collaborative (TLC), a literary organization advancing environmental and climate justice by abundantly resourcing Black women, non-binary, and transgender people to dream, ideate,
Grace Anderson is a writer, imaginary, and world-bender curating at the intersection of queerness, resource mobilization, climate & environmental justice, and Black dignity & imagination. She approaches her work with curiosity, limitlessness,
Grace Anderson is a writer, imaginary, and world-bender curating at the intersection of queerness, resource mobilization, climate & environmental justice, and Black dignity & imagination. She approaches her work with curiosity, limitlessness,
Please reach out to Anne Hawke at annehawke@gmail.com
Coordinated by Agency, and supported by Communities First and the Tishman Center for Environment and Design.
Please reach out to Anne Hawke at annehawke@gmail.com
Coordinated by Agency, and supported by Communities First and the Tishman Center for Environment and Design.