Jay Baldwin
As the co-founder of City Gardens, Inc., Jay Baldwin directed one of the nation’s first interior landscaping companies until 1991. He has focused on retrofitting college campuses for energy efficiency with GreenerY and currently serves as President of Wind River Capital Partners, as well as a strategic advisor specializing in green commercial building.
Anstis Benfield
As a student at BU, Anstis Benfield led the Save Our Cities movement to protest the Inner Belt Highway Project in Boston. Her continued lobbying and activism contributed to the cancellation of the highway by Governor Francis Sargent in 1972.
Caroline Chang
Graduating with a BS in Math, Caroline Chang became the first woman and first Asian American to work in the flight test department at Avco Corp. Her ongoing involvement in Boston city government included working as an Equal Opportunity Specialist and the Manager of Chinatown’s Little City Hall.
Nancy “Hasty” Evans
As a former Representative in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Nancy “Hasty” Evans contributed to the development of the City of Boston. Her position as the MBTA’s Planning Director from 1996 to 1999 further cemented her contributions to the city.
Olive Lesueur
Olive Lesueur (CAS’66, MET’85) was born, raised, and educated in Boston, and has worked in the city all her life. After earning a bachelor’s degree in geography from BU’s College of Liberal Arts (now the College of Arts & Sciences) in 1966, Lesueur became a cartographer and geographer in the earth sciences lab at the […]
Luisa Paiewonsky
Luisa Paiewonsky is director of the Center for Infrastructure Systems & Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe Center in Cambridge, MA. She earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and Spanish from Mount Holyoke College and a master’s degree in city planning from Boston University. At the Volpe Center, she directs engineering, planning, […]
Sara Zewde
Founder of Studio Zewde and Assistant Professor of Practice at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design Sara Zewde has extensively shaped the local and national urban landscape. As a distinguished landscape architect, Zewde combines tradition, research, and technical expertise to create design projects that connect to local culture.