Emily Maxwell

New York

Emily Nobel Maxwell has dedicated her career to environmental justice and urban greening. She is Director of The Nature Conservancy’s New York City Program and helped launch TNC’s North America Cities Network. A Doris Duke Conservation and Ford Fellow, Emily served as Associate Director of National Wildlife Federation’s Northeast Regional Center, leading urban school sustainability programs; led efforts to weave and mobilize neighborhood action for parks at Partnerships for Parks in NYC; coordinated a community greening initiative in Philadelphia; taught in Lesley University’s Urban Environmental Leadership Program; and founded the More Gardens! Coalition, an organization key to protecting NYC’s community gardens. Emily is an author of Building Capacity Through Diversity, (https://knowledgecirclesca.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/diversity-in-environmentalism-building-capacity.pdf) a report that explores building the efficacy of the environmental movement through diverse partnerships and of Urban Coastal Resilience: Valuing Nature’s Role (https://global.nature.org/content/urban-coastal-resilience-valuing-natures-role/). She has a B.A. in Urban Studies and M.S. in Natural Resource Policy with specialization in Environmental Justice.