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Guest Speakers
- Dr. Eric W. Sanderson is a Senior Conservation Ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society and adjunct faculty at NYU and Columbia University. After a decade of research (1999 – 2009), the Mannahatta Project un-covered the original ecology of Manhattan, the center of New York City’s five boroughs. The Welikia Project (2010 – present) goes beyond Mannahatta to encompass the entire city, reveal its pre-development ecology and compare it what we have today.
- Annik LaFarge is the author of On the High Line: Exploring America’s Most Original Urban Park, now in its second edition (with a third scheduled for 2019) and winner of the IPPY Award for Travel Guidebook. She has been photographing and writing about the High Line and other urban greenway projects around the world since 2008 on the blog LivinTheHighLine.com, and is a frequent guest speaker and lecturer. She is currently under contract with Simon & Schuster for a book about 19th century composer Frederic Chopin. She divides her time between New York (in West Chelsea) and Hudson.
- Patricia Jonas is former Director of Library Service at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She served on the CBHL Annual Literature Award (1999-2015) and has been book review editor for the CBHL Newsletter since 2011. She is a curator, writer, editor and horticulturist and has been a volunteer gardener on the High Line since 2010. She is a long time West Chelsea resident.
- Botanical artist Bobbi Angell has been illustrating plants for NYBG scientists for 40 years, with a focus on Neotropical and Intermountain floras and species new to science. Co-author of A Botanist’s Vocabulary, an avid gardener and a skilled printmaker, her knowledge of plants is complimented by her interest in historical botanical art collections. Having curated parts of the NYBG art collection under Charles Long, she continues to rely on the collection for inspiration. She is an active member of American Society of Botanical Artists, editor and author of many articles about botanical art.
- Victoria Johnson is Associate Professor of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College in New York City. Her new book, David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic, tells the story of Dr. David Hosack (1769-1835), visionary American physician (and attending physician at the Hamilton-Burr duel) and his pioneering botanical garden. Johnson reconstructed Hosack's life and achievements through research in more than twenty-five archival collections in the United States and Europe.
