Community Partners
Dr. Mildred McClain is the founder and Executive Director of the Harambee House, Inc. She has been an environmental justice activist for the past 58 years, fighting for her community in Savannah, GA and similar communities all over the nation. We thank her for her commitment to sustainability and bettering the lives of those in marginalized communities, and for taking time out of her busy schedule to provide us with mentorship and guidance towards the completion of this project.
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Michael MacMiller is the Youth and Student coordinator with the Partnership for Southern Equity. Michael showed us the importance of incorporating community voices and vision into the project, and we thank him for helping us make this project more inclusive.
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You can learn more about the work Michael is doing with PSE here.
Nick Deffly is the Chief Sustainability Officer with the City of Savannah. Without him, this project would not have happened. We thank him for the data he shared towards our GIS tool, his guidance and suggestions toward our deliverables, and his faith in us, as a group of students, to produce a report worthy of the City’s attention.
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You can read more about the City of Savannah's Sustainability Office here.
REsearch Partners
Dr. Kim Cobb is the Georgia Power Chair and ADVANCE Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. A world renown climate scientist, Dr. Cobb is a lead author on the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report. We thank her for sharing data from her research on sea level sensors in Savannah with us, as well as her guidance towards making data more accessible for the community.
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Dr. Kim Cobb
ADVANCE Professor and Director of Global Change Program
Dr. Matt Cox
Founder and CEO, Greenlink Analytics
Dr. Matt Cox is the founder and CEO of Greenlink Analytics, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to making energy more sustainable. We thank him for sharing his data on Energy Burden with us, helping identify our audience, and providing guidance towards making our analysis more robust.
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