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Danielle Zoe Rivera is Assistant Professor in the department of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning. Her work examines environmental planning, urban design, and community development, including an extensive focus on flooding. Within these spaces, she focuses on issues of environmental justice and climate equity affecting low-income communities. Her current work leverages community-based research and design methods to identify and address environmental injustices affecting low-income communities throughout South Texas, the Bay Area, and Puerto Rico. She has conducted past research in Southeast Michigan, the Philadelphia region, and the Denver region. Rivera directs the Just Environments Lab, which seeks to center concerns of social justice and equity in discussions of the future of our environment.