8 CityTREES
In This Issue: Contributors
Runa Leo lives and works in Bar-
celona, Spain. She always felt
connected to nature and has
worked as a florist; when Runa
moved to Barcelona, she dis-
covered her interest in trees.
Combining her passion for trees
and photography, in 2018 Runa
started her Instagram account @treesof-
barcelona. A book is in the planning stage.
Claudia Alzate is the Arbor and
Horticulture Manager for the
City of Coral Springs, Florida.
She is an ISA Certified Arbor-
ist, Municipal Specialist, Tree
Risk Assessment Qualified, and
holds a Master of Forest Con-
servation from the University of
Toronto. MFI 2020 graduate Claudia is
currently serving on the SMA Board of Directors and
plans to help revitalize the Arborist Exchange Program.
Interested in writing for City Trees? Please send your
one-paragraph story pitch to Editor Michelle Sutton.
Jean Zimmerman is a Commercial
Arborist for SavATree and a grad-
uate of the 2020 Municipal
Forestry Institute. She is also a
published author (jeanzimmer-
man.com), a New York-based
writer who has made the histo-
ry of Manhattan a central focus
of both her fiction and nonfiction.
Dr. Sharon Jean-Philippe is the Asso-
ciate Professor of Urban Forestry
in the Department of Forest-
ry, Wildlife, and Fisheries at
the University of Tennessee.
She has a split appointment
for Teaching and Extension.
Visit urban-forestry.com to learn about all
things SMA, including the Municipal Forestry
Institute, SMA Municipal Accreditation, our
Arborist Exchange program, Annual Conference,
and more. You can also find a compendium
of several dozen written Roundtables on sub-
jects ranging far and wide, including Urban
Forestry in Zoos, Managing Natural Areas in
the Urban Forest, Bees and Urban Forests,
Working with Slopes, and Large Tree Relocation.
Dr. Duncan Slater is Senior Lec-
turer in Arboriculture at Myer-
scough College in Lancashire,
England. He is the tutor for
the MSc in Arboriculture and
Urban Forestry online course,
run at Myerscough College
and validated by the University
of Central Lancashire. Duncan current-
ly holds five university degrees, including a PhD in
Plant Sciences from the University of Manchester.
