Philip Silva is an environmental planner, advocate, and educator pursuing a Ph.D. in natural resources at Cornell University. Philip is the co-founder of TreeKIT, an initiative helping city dwellers measure, map, and collaborative manage urban forests. He also serves as an Outreach Fellow for Five Borough Farm, a project helping community gardeners in New York City tell stories about all the good things happening in their gardens. He is a regular contributor to The Nature of Cities, a collective blog on cities as ecological spaces.
