8 CityTREES
In This Issue: Contributors
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Kathy Lawrence is the Board Chair
for the Greater Newburgh Parks
Conservancy and a 30-year
veteran of sustainable agriculture,
food justice, and non-profit
management. The Conservan-
cy, along with the Newburgh
Conservation Advisory Council
and Outdoor Promise, have teamed
up as proud partners of the Arbor Day Foundation to
initiate an Environmental Justice Fellowship program,
now in its second year in the City of Newburgh.
Haywood Morgan, Jr. received his
Bachelors of Science Degree in
Urban Forestry from Southern
University and A&M College in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and is a
2020 graduate of the Municipal
Forestry Institute. Haywood has 23
years of experience in Urban Forestry
working for municipal government.
Currently he is the Urban Forester for the City of Denton,
Texas and serves on the Board of Directors for ISA Texas.
Alana Tucker is the program man-
ager for the Tree City programs
at the Arbor Day Foundation,
including Tree City USA and
Tree Cities of the World. As
an urban planner, she con-
ducted streetscape and parks
planning projects in Detroit prior
to coming to the Foundation. She
holds a Bachelor's in International Business from
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Master's of
Urban Planning from the University of Michigan.
Doug Still is the City Forester in
Providence, RI, and owner of This
Old Tree Consulting. He is a Past
President of SMA and serves on
the Board of the Rhode Island
Tree Council. He is the recipient
of several SMA awards, including
Life Membership and the Award of
Achievement for developing the Arbor-
ist Exchange Program. He leads a series of "Outermost
Forest Walks" within the Cape Cod National Seashore.
Becky Schwartz is the Senior Manager
of Urban Forestry at American
Forests. Prior to that, she worked
as an Urban Forester with
Washington, DC's Urban Forestry
Division. Becky is a 2020 grad-
uate of the Municipal Forestry
Institute and lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts with her wife, Adriann.
