John C. Arroyo, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Engaging Diverse Communities and Director of the PNW Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice at the University of Oregon. Arroyo’s research focuses on the political and cultural dimensions of immigrant-centered built environments in emerging gateways.

Stephanie LeMenager, Ph.D., is Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon, where she co-directs the Center for Environmental Futures and is the Co-PI for the PNW Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice.

Alethea Steingisser is the cartographic production manager in the InfoGraphics Lab at the University of Oregon where she has worked since 2005. She works with InfoGraphics staff and students on the conceptualization and design for a wide variety of cartographic projects in the Lab.

Joanna Merson is a Cartographic Developer in the University of Oregon Department of Geography InfoGraphics Lab. Her primary duties are to design visualizations and web mapping products to support academic research activities and to teach Web Mapping courses. With a B.Sc. in Geomatics (Combined Geography and Computer Science) and an M.A. in Geography, her skills include a foundation in geographic principles, data modeling, and user-driven visualization techniques.

McClean Gonzalez (he/him) is a Master’s Student in Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon. He received his Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design from Auburn University. His research interests focus on expanding the ways that the public can be involved in the planning and design of public infrastructure.

Janice Chen is a writer and cartographer specializing in interactive, multimedia stories that explore the history of landscapes.

Bob Bussel is professor emeritus of history and the former director of the Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) at the University of Oregon.

Bob has spent over four decades in the union movement, including work with the United Farm Workers, ten years as an organizer with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. and twenty-five years as a university-based labor educator.

Daniel J. Tichenor is the Philip H. Knight Chair of Social Science and Program Director at the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics at the University of Oregon. A scholar of immigration policy, social movements, and political history, he has published nine books, including Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control (Princeton), Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements and the Transformation of American Politics (Chicago), and Democracy’s Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, and Agency (Oxford).

Ashia Ajani is a Black environmental educator and storyteller hailing from Denver, CO, Queen City of the Plains and the unceded territory of the Cheyenne, Ute, Arapahoe and Comanche peoples. Ajani is a Digital Humanities Assistant with JFI and environmental justice educator with Mycelium Youth Network. Their words have been featured in Sierra Magazine, Atmos, World Literature Today and Them., among others.

Troy Brundidge is a PhD Candidate in the University of Oregon Department of Geography. His work explores topics in economic geography and political economy, with special interests in emerging insurance markets, public finance and planning, race, and labor. He earned an MA in Geography and Environmental Studies from Northeastern Illinois University, and a B.S in Journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Charlotte Klein (She/Her) is a recent graduate from the University of Oregon’s Robert D. Clark Honors College where she double majored in Spatial Data Science & Technology and Environmental Science. During undergrad, Charlotte discovered her passion for exploring socioecological systems across spatiotemporal scales using geographic data science.

Jenna Witzleben (she/they) is a Master of Landscape Architecture student and an InfoGraphics Lab member. Jenna is honored to contribute design and research skills to the Atlas of Essential Work leveraging their prior work as a design strategist and degrees in design and engineering. Jenna’s MLA work focuses on biocultural diversity and public health sovereignty. They also are an organizer with local grassroots food and climate justice groups.

Nadya Barba Ramirez is a concurrent Juris Doctor (JD) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) student within the University of Oregon School of Law and the School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management (MPA), respectively. She is a Coordination Graduate Employee (GE) for the PNW Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Studies, with a minor in Economics, from the University of Utah.

Eden McCall a recent graduate with degrees in Journalism and Spatial Data Science with a minor in Science Communication, is passionate about utilizing multimedia, including data visualizations and mapping as well as photography, film and writing, to share narratives with cultural and scientific relevance. For the Atlas of Essential Work, Eden helped decipher and clean data as well as produce maps to make incarcerated firefighters’ labor visible.

Ellie Wood’s general research interests include making small businesses and their surrounding communities more environmentally friendly through the use of urban planning, green-building design, and renewable energy. In the past, she has specifically researched the sustainability of a microbrewery and explored the viability of sustainable technologies in rural Guatemalan communities. Ellie hopes to further her education at UO while focusing on sustainable design in the built environment and the way in which we can retrofit today’s urban infrastructure.