City Trees

8 CityTREES In This Issue: Contributors Brittany R. Benjamin is a PhD Candidate in Urban Forestry at Southern University and A&M College-Baton Rouge, and she is a Supervisory Forester for the U.S. Forest Service. Leslie Berckes is the Executive Director of the Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA), the professional membership home for people who make daily tree planting and care decisions in communities across the world. She brings over a decade of experience in urban forestry to SMA, having served as the Director of Programs for Trees Forever, a Midwest-based non-profit serving Iowa and Illinois. Leslie is an ISA Certified Arborist and holds a master's degree in Public Policy with an Environmental Policy emphasis from the University of Northern Iowa in addition to a bachelor's degree in Marketing. Alexander Martin is an ISA Board Certified Master Arborist and TCIA Certified Treecare Safety Professional. He currently works as the Director of Ironwood Urban Forestry Consulting Inc., a research and consulting firm based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He is also the Co-Chair of the Canadian TREE Fund, where he hosts the monthly webinar series. Michelle Sutton has been editor of City Trees since 2005. She is a writer, horticulturist, and urban forestry subject matter specialist who earned her master's degree working with Nina Bassuk in the Cornell Urban Horticulture Institute. For the USFS column on the new i-Tree tool, OurTrees, thank you to Michael Binkley, Manager Technology Development, The Davey Institute, Davey Tree Expert Company; Eric J. Greenfield, Forester, and Mark Majewsky, Acting i-Tree Team Leader, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station Forest Inventory and Analysis; and Phil Rodbell, USDA Forest Service National Program Leader for Urban Forestry Research. Thank you to the authors of "Can Urban Forestry be the Ideal Profession?" Keith O'Herrin, Ph.D., Urban Forester, North Carolina State Extension and Union County; Susan Day, Ph.D., Professor of Urban Forestry, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia; Corrine G. Bassett, Ph.D. Student, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia; Paul Ries, Ed.D., Senior Instructor and Director, Graduate Certificate in Urban Forestry, Dept. of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University; and Eric Wiseman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Urban Forestry, Dept. of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation Virginia Tech. Jenna Valiquette is a proud Anishinaabe woman and member of Poplar River First Nation in Manitoba, Canada. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Indigenous Studies and Conflict Resolution, with a focus on Indigenous justice. Jenna currently works as the Indigenous Cultural Facilitator at Altered Minds Inc., a non-profit organization in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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