Christa Daniels, Ph.D., AICP is a nationally recognized expert in land use, climate resilience, and community engagement. She believes transformational change happens when communities are empowered to lead, co-create solutions, and shape their own resilient futures.

Christa’s passion centers around systems thinking to achieve transformational change that creates equitable, vibrant, livable communities. For the past two decades, Christa has worked with local and regional governments to create ecological regenerative communities. Christa’s current research relies on participatory planning methods within local and regional governments to overcome barriers to implement climate resilience solutions and create sustainable, circular and regenerative communities. 

Christa’s past experience includes working for Antioch University, United Nations, NH Department of Environmental Services, Clean Air Cool Planet, and as a city planner for Keene, NH. Dr. Daniels has facilitated and created innovative participatory stakeholder engagement strategies with towns and regions such as Pittsburgh PA, the Greater Portland Council of Governments, Monadnock region in New Hampshire, NY Department of Conservation, Maplewood NJ, and Bridgeport CT. She also has worked for Climate Access as a research coordinator on translating social science into effective engagement strategies. In addition, Christa worked on an innovative sea level rise in situ 3D visualization project in San Mateo County, Marin County and the San Francisco Bay region of California to increase public support for action on climate change.