Lindsay Campbell

New York

Lindsay K. Campbell is a human geographer who is an affiliated faculty member and adjunct professor at City University of New York Graduate Center, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and a visiting scientist with the American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. Her research explores the dynamics of environmental governance, civic engagement, and natural resource stewardship. In addition to contributing to scholarly understanding of civic capacity, social infrastructure, and networked governance, she aims to amplify the voices and experiences of stewards’ themselves through exhibitions (Who Takes Care of New York?), essays, and convenings. Campbell has developed a number of applied projects at the interface of research and practice in urban sustainability. She was a member of the MillionTreesNYC Advisory Committee and Research and Evaluation Subcommittee and the Forest for All New York City coalition leadership team. She is the author of City of Forests, City of Farms: Sustainability Planning for New York City’s Nature, published by Cornell University Press. In addition to her research, Lindsay creates transdisciplinary spaces of collaboration between land managers, scientists, artists, and other practitioners and co-created the NaturePLACE Collaborative Arts Program. Dr. Campbell holds a BA in Public Policy from Princeton University, a Master’s in City Planning from MIT, and a PhD in Geography from Rutgers University.