Colleen Murphy-Dunning

New Haven

Colleen Murphy-Dunning is Executive Director of both the Hixon Center for Urban Sustainability and the Urban Resources Initiative (URI) at the Yale School of Environment (YSE). URI carries out community-driven urban forestry to improve both the social and physical environment of the City of New Haven. Colleen manages the Hixon Center Fellowship program to support graduate students conducting a wide range of research projects in cities across the globe. She also co-leads a field-based urban training module for all incoming YSE graduate students. Colleen is currently visiting the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology with support of an International Excellence Fellowship.