Louise Chawla

Boulder

Louise Chawla is a Professor in the Environmental Design Program in the University of Colorado Boulder. She is Associate Director of the Children, Youth and Environments Center for Community Engagement (CYE Center) and Co-editor of the journal Children, Youth and Environments. As a member of the Executive Committee of Growing Up Boulder, she helps lead a partnership between the CYE Center, Boulder Valley School District, and the City of Boulder’s Departments of Community Planning and Sustainability, Parks and Recreation, and Transportation, along with numerous community organizations, to integrate the ideas of children and youth into urban planning and design. As International Coordinator of the Growing Up in Cities program of UNESCO from 1996-2006, she revived an initiative that has involved young people in cities around the world in evaluating and improving their urban communities. She has written two books and many book chapters and journal articles on children and nature, children in cities, and the development of active care for the natural world.