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Dr. Brian Stone is a Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the Urban Climate Lab. He brings more than a decade of experience in consulting with cities on urban heat risk assessment and planning. Brian is author of the forthcoming book Radical Adaptation: Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World (Cambridge University Press), and The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He holds degrees in environmental management and planning from Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dr. Evan Mallen is the co-founder of Urban Adapt LLC and Senior Analyst in the Georgia Tech Urban Climate Lab, where he focuses on urban heat island mitigation and public health response with international public, private, and academic collaborators while teaching Urban Environmental Planning & Design. In his work, Evan regularly collaborates with academic, business, and governmental partners such as ESRI, the US Department of Transportation, CDC, NASA, and the NOAA National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) training diverse audiences on urban heat risk assessment tools and processes. He is a graduate of the City and Regional Planning doctoral program at Georgia Tech, where he studied Environmental Planning and Public Health. Evan also holds a BS in Physics and a Master of Urban Planning both from the University of Michigan, where he later served as a research associate with the Great Lakes Climate Adaptation Assessment for Cities and the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments. Evan's work has been covered in national and international outlets such as The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, Axios, The Guardian, PEW Stateline, the EPA Heat Island Newsletter, and the US Climate Resilience Toolkit.