Master in City Planning Student

Michelle Mueller Gámez is a second-year Master in City Planning Candidate, focusing on Environmental Policy and Planning. Her research interest include living infrastructure, ecological restoration, land use, and human relationships with the more-than-human world. She uses environmental history methods and cultural artifacts to explore how different groups understand, live, and work with the environment. Before pursuing her master's, Michelle worked on a partnership between the 100 Resilient Cities Initiative and Columbia Universities Center for Resilient Cities and Landscape on climate change adaptation approaches that center local ecologies. Michelle has experience with municipal risk analysis, nature-based project design, and ecological systems. From Texas, Michelle holds a BA in Latin American Studies and Government from the University of Texas at Austin. 

Lecturer, MIT

Takeo completed a dual bachelor’s degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara with Dean’s Honors in East Asian Studies with a focus on Japanese, Asian American Studies, and two years of course work for a Biology major. He was a Joan B. Kroc Fellow at the University of San Diego where he completed a Masters in Peace and Justice. Takeo’s research centered on social constructions in visual art and its roles in the planning for post civil conflict regions. His primary research site was Derry, Northern Ireland. He is currently finishing a second masters degree at Harvard University. He also works with the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program in the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, is a graduate resident mentor at Simmons Hall, MIT, and is a Fulbright Specialist. 

Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT
Vice-Chair, Program on Negotiations at Harvard Law School

Professor Susskind's research interests focus on the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution, the practice of public engagement in local decision-making, global environmental treaty-making, the resolution of science-intensive policy disputes, renewable energy policy, climate change adaptation and the land claims of Indigenous Peoples. Professor Susskind is the author or co-author of twenty books including, most recently, Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities: Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation (Anthem), the second edition of Environmental Diplomacy (Oxford Press), Good for You, Great for Me (Public Affairs Press) Water Diplomacy (Resources for the Future), Built to Win (Harvard Business School Publishing), Multiparty Negotiation (Sage), Breaking Robert's Rules (Oxford), The Consensus Building Handbook (Sage), and Dealing with An Angry Public (Free Press). Professor Susskind is currently Director of the MIT Science Impact Collaborative, the Director of the MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program (MSCP) and co-director of the Water Diplomacy Workshop. He is Founder of the Consensus Building Institute, a Cambridge-based, not-for-profit that provides environmental mediation services around the world. He also was one of the co-founders of the interuniversity Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where he now directs the MIT-Harvard Public Negotiations Program, serves as Vice Chair for Education, and co-directs the Negotiation Pedagogy Initiative.