David de la Peña is an architect, urban designer and Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Davis. His work and practice explore methods by which citizens and designers co-produce urban spaces, with a focus on sustainable architecture, self-managed communities, and urban agriculture in the US and Spain. Diane Jones Allen has 27 years of professional practice experience in land planning and varied scales of community development work. She is the director of the Landscape Architecture Program at the University of Texas, Arlington. Her firm, DesignJones LLC, received the 2016 the American Society of Landscape Architects Community Service Award. Randolph T. Hester Jr. champions cultural and biological diversity through his writing and built work in complex political environments, from Manteo, North Carolina to Los Angeles and the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. Jeffrey Hou is Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work focuses on design activism, public space and democracy, and engagement of marginalized social groups in design and planning. He is the editor of Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanismand the Making of Contemporary Cities (2010). Laura J. Lawson is Dean of Agriculture and Urban Programs at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her scholarship and teaching focus on urban agriculture, community open space, and participatory design. Marcia J. McNally is a recognized leader in international environmental mobilization and on-the-ground citizen participation. She retired from University of California, Berkeley in 2010 but continues to teach at Berkeley and in Taiwan. McNally now lives in Durham, North Carolina where she runs The Neighborhood Laboratory, an on-demand community design center.