Jean Gardner, Associate Professor of Social-Ecological History and Design, is a teacher, urban activist, writer, and consultant with wide professional recognition. She is the author of Urban Wilderness: Nature in New York City (New York: Earth Environmental Group) and articles and reviews in multiple periodicals including Architectural Design, Fourth Door Review, Oculus, Landscape and Art, and The New York Times, and she most recently co-authored an  article “Cinemetrics: Embodying Architectural Representation in the Digital Age” (Architectural Theory Review). Jean is the recipient of over 25 grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation, the J.M. Kaplan Fund, the Vincent Astor Foundation, and other public and private funding groups for her work on and about New York City's environment. As Founder-Director of the Earth Environmental Group, she has received over 50 grants for publications/videos/photographs on urban environmental issues. Jean was awarded a Special Citation for work as an urban ecologist, author, and educator in both the architectural field and in the public realm by the American Institute of Architects, New York City Chapter, and was a Special Recognition Recipient of the AIA (American Association of Architects) Committee on the Environment for “Issues and Practices in Architecture and Urbanism” for her Graduate Seminar. Dep. of Architecture, Interior Design, & Lighting, Parsons The New School for Design. Jean has previously held appointments as Associate Professor/Lecturer at Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute’s Graduate School of Architecture.