Rachel Gruzen, M.E.M., LEED™ AP, is an environmental consultant to architecture firms and environmental non-profits on issues of urban ecology, environmental design and conservation planning. Rachel has worked with Balmori Associates Landscape Architects, Gruzen Samton Architects, Transsolar Climate Engineers, the United Nations Development Programme and The Nature Conservancy, and she has taught at the Yale School of Architecture. Rachel holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management from Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Rachel also uses photography, film and writing as educational tools on land-use change in developing countries. Rachel is based in New York City.