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8 CityTREES In This Issue: Contributors Dr. Adison Altamirano is the Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Envi- ronment at Universidad de La Frontera (Temuco-Chile). His research focus is Landscape Ecology including land use/ cover patterns, forest loss dynamics, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration, and ecological modeling. Dr. Nina Bassuk has taught and mentored students at Cornell University and directed the Cornell Urban Horticulture Institute for more than 40 years. Her accomplishments are too many to begin to enumerate here, but readers can see a very nice video overview of her career the Arbor Day Foundation made in honor of her receiving its 2015 ADF Frederick Law Olmsted award. Felipe Alberto Fuentes Ramírez is an Urban Planner for the municipality of Calera de Tango in Chile. He has a postgraduate diploma in Arboriculture and Management of Urban Woodland from the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid, Spain. Felipe helped found the Chilean Society of Arboriculture, helped organize the first-ever Arbor Day in Chile, and serves on the Editorial Review Committee for City Trees. l Rodrigo Gutiérrez Ibáñez is a Forest Engineer and Master in Natural Resources. He is currently an Ad Honorem professor at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Environment of the Universidad de La Frontera and is in charge of parks and urban trees for the Municipality of Temuco in Chile's Araucanía Region. Carolina Meza Valdebenito is an Environmental Civil Engineer. Since 2020, she has been in charge of research and development of the continuing education unit of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and the Environment of the Universidad de La Frontera in Temuco, Chile. al Dave Muffly has been planting trees (especially oaks) in California for more than 30 years. He is a Board Certified Master Arborist whom Steve Jobs hired to install radically diverse plantings at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, where Dave spent seven years as Senior Arborist. Through his company, Oaktopia, Dave seeks to introduce a diverse palette of climate resilient oaks to the California nursery trade. y Becky Schwartz is the American Forests Senior Manager of Urban Forestry, overseeing the organization's national tree planting program. Prior to that, she worked as an Urban Forester with Washington, DC's Urban Forestry Division. Becky is a 2020 graduate of the Municipal Forestry Institute and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her wife, Adriann. r Georgia Silvera Seamans lives and breathes city trees, with field experience in New Haven, Boston, Oakland, and NYC, and a dissertation about urban forestry policy in Northern California cities. She designs urban ecology programs under the umbrella of Local Nature Lab. Georgia is a member of the #BlackBotanistsWeek organizing committee. Michelle Sutton has been City Trees Editor since 2005. She is a writer, horticulturist, and urban forestry subject matter spe- cialist who earned her master's degree working with Nina Bassuk in the Cornell Urban Horticulture Institute. Thank you to the contributors to "Highlights from the 2022 MFI Diversity Mentoring Program": Kay Sicheneder, Asija Rice, Haywood Morgan Jr., and Tony Mecum. Thank you also to urban forestry student Alex Fosket for sharing his story.