Michelle Mueller Gámez is a second-year Master in City Planning Candidate, focusing on Environmental Policy and Planning. Her research interest include living infrastructure, ecological restoration, land use, and human relationships with the more-than-human world. She uses environmental history methods and cultural artifacts to explore how different groups understand, live, and work with the environment. Before pursuing her master's, Michelle worked on a partnership between the 100 Resilient Cities Initiative and Columbia Universities Center for Resilient Cities and Landscape on climate change adaptation approaches that center local ecologies. Michelle has experience with municipal risk analysis, nature-based project design, and ecological systems. From Texas, Michelle holds a BA in Latin American Studies and Government from the University of Texas at Austin.