TEAM – MIT Enhancing Water Affordability Project

ABBY FULLEM

Master in City Planning Student, MIT

Abby Fullem is a first year Master in City Planning candidate at MIT, concentrating inenvironmental planning and policy. Prior to pursuing her master’s, she worked in Wyoming, California, and the Southwest supporting alternate dispute resolution processes and community involvement in local decision-making. She has worked in sectors including land-use, climate adaptation, renewable energy, transportation, public safety, and water. Abby is interested in working with communities and decision-makers to identify equitable and actionable solutions to environmental conflicts. She holds a BS in Geology from Haverford College.

JAY MADDOX

Master in City Planning Student, MIT

Jay Maddox is a Master in City Planning candidate in his first year at DUSP. He wishes to untangle how state-led housing policies affect urban informality in the Global South. He is also deeply interested in studying mass housing policies through a comparative lens, drawing on both historical and contemporary examples.

LAWRENCE SUSSKIND

Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT Vice-Chair, Program on Negotiations at Harvard Law School

Professor Susskind’s research interests focus on the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution, the practice of public engagement in local decision-making, global environmental treaty-making, the resolution of science-intensive policy disputes, renewable energy policy, climate change adaptation and the land claims of Indigenous Peoples. Professor Susskind is the author or co-author of twenty books including, most recently, Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities: Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation (Anthem), the second edition of Environmental Diplomacy (Oxford Press), Good for You, Great for Me (Public Affairs Press) Water Diplomacy (Resources for the Future), Built to Win (Harvard Business School Publishing), Multiparty Negotiation (Sage), Breaking Robert’s Rules (Oxford), The Consensus Building Handbook (Sage), and Dealing with An Angry Public (Free Press). Professor Susskind is currently Director of the MIT Science Impact Collaborative, the Director of the MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program (MSCP) and co-director of the Water Diplomacy Workshop. He is Founder of the Consensus Building Institute, a Cambridge-based, not-for-profit that provides environmental mediation services around the world. He also was one of the co-founders of the interuniversity Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where he now directs the MIT-Harvard Public Negotiations Program, serves as Vice Chair for Education, and co-directs the Negotiation Pedagogy Initiative.

FLAVIO VILA SKRZYPEK

Master in City Planning Student, MIT

Flavio Vila is a Fulbright student and a first year Master in City Planning candidate at MIT, concentrating his studies in environmental planning and policy. Prior to his master’s degree, he worked in Peru with rural indigenous and non-indigenous communities on behalf of their local development. Amongst his topics of research, he focuses in environmental conflicts due to extractive industries, territorial interculturality, rural water resilience and indigenous land claims. Also, he worked at the Peruvian Ministry of Housing and is currently a researcher for the Peruvian Future Institute and the Latin American network ‘Urbanistas.lat’. He holds a Bachelor in Architecture from University of Lima.