Colleen Murphy-Dunning

Colleen Murphy-Dunning is Director of both the Hixon Center for Urban Sustainability and the Urban Resources Initiative (URI) at the Yale School of Environment (YSE). URI carries out community-driven urban forestry to improve both the social and physical environment of the City of New Haven.  Colleen manages the Hixon Center Fellowship program to support graduate students conducting a wide range of research projects in cities across the globe. She also co-leads a field-based urban ecology training module for all incoming YSE graduate students. Colleen received her B.S. in Public and Environmental Affairs from Indiana University, and M.S. in Forestry from Humboldt State University.