8 CityTREES
In This Issue: Contributors
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.
Sophie Nitoslawski is a PhD Can-
didate and Green College Sus-
tainable Development Fellow
in the Department of Forest
Resources Management, Fac-
ulty of Forestry, University of
British Columbia, Vancouver,
BC, Canada. Nitoslawski studies
the interface between urban forests and
green spaces, sustainability, and digital technologies.
Amelia Williams MICFor is a Char-
tered Arboriculturist and Chartered
Environmentalist with a passion
for trees and has more than 20
years of experience across var-
ious roles within the arboricul-
tural industry. Currently she is the
Managing Director of The Arbori-
cultural Company, a company she founded in 2020.
Becky Schwartz recently moved
to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
She most recently worked as
an Urban Forester with Wash-
ington, DC's Urban Forestry
Division and is a 2020 grad-
uate of the Municipal Forest-
ry Institute. In her free time, she
enjoys walking around Cambridge
with her wife Adriann and dog Phantom and playing
taiko (Japanese drums) with Odaiko New England.
Thank you to Nina Bassuk, Darren Green,
and Doug Still for contributing to the 2022
SMA Urban Tree of the Year article.
Interested in writing for City Trees? Please send your
one-paragraph story pitch to Editor Michelle Sutton.
