Shriya Rangarajan is a graduate of the PhD program in Regional Science at Cornell University  and is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Innovative Genomics Institute at the University of California Berkeley. She also holds a Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. She primarily works on community-engaged research in the fields of sustainable agriculture and the built environment, agricultural policy, and climate resilience. 

Jennifer Minner, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning within the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. She is the director of the Just Places Lab, a collaborative platform for research on how communities care for, preserve, reuse, repair, remember, and imagine places. She is a co-founder of the Circularity, Reuse, and Zero Waste Development (CR0WD) network. She is a past Conference Chair for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, and previously served on the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission and chaired the City of Olympia, Washington Heritage Commission. Dr. Minner holds a Ph.D. in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin. She has received awards from the American Planning Association, Association for Preservation Technology International, and Cornell University for research in the creation of scenario planning tools, 3D modeling, and participatory research to serve the local community.

Yu Wang is a Ph.D. student at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She is a senior research associate at the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement. Her research explores the intersections between migration and land. She received her M.Sc in Regional Science from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in Urban-Rural Planning from Wuhan University.

Felix Heisel is Assistant Professor and the Director of the Circular Construction Lab at Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. His scholarship focuses on a systemic redesign of the built environment as a material depot of endless use and reconfiguration. He has received various awards for his work and published several books and articles on the topic, including Building Better- Less - Different: Circular Construction and Circular Economy (Birkhäuser, 2022); Urban Mining und kreislaufgerechtes Bauen (Urban Mining and Circular Construction, Fraunhofer IRB, 2021); Cultivated Building Materials (Birkhäuser, 2017), and Building from Waste (Birkhäuser, 2014). Heisel is also a licensed architect in Germany and partner of 2hs Architekten und Ingenieur PartGmbB, an office specialized in the development of circular prototypologies.