YLACES Welcomes New Board Member

YLACES is pleased to announce the addition of a new board member, Rebecca Boger!

Rebecca Boger is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Urban Sustainability Program at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY). She has a background in geospatial technologies, environmental science, and science education. Before coming to Brooklyn College, she worked for an international science and education program, GLOBE, where she worked with teams of scientists and educators to develop classroom materials, conduct workshops, and facilitate international collaborations. She continues to work with GLOBE to develop and assess GLOBE Observer (GO) citizen science app data about mosquito breeding habitat and land cover. At Brooklyn College, she teaches geospatial technologies and urban sustainability courses and works with anthropologists and archaeologists in Barbuda on socio-ecological resilience research, community-based mapping, and environmental modeling.

We can't wait to work with Becky to further the mission of YLACES!