Jill Jonnes is the author of several books on the history and dynamics of cities: Eiffel’s Tower, Conquering Gotham, Empires of Light, and South Bronx Rising. She attended Barnard College and the Columbia Journalism School and worked as a journalist writing stories for the New York Times and other publications. As a staff member to the 2010 National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, she authored the first chapter of the report to the president--Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling. Ms. Jonnes studied trees as green infrastructure at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. and has been a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar. She is founder of the Baltimore Tree Trust and a Maryland Master Naturalist.

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