Professional Service

• National Science Foundation. Ad Hoc Reviewer. 01/2023 - present
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Role: Research Partner and Proposal Reviewer. Building Momentum for Park and Green Space Equity in Small and Midsize Cities. Prevention Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2020-ongoing). 01/12/2020 - present
• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Topic Editor. 01/01/2020 - present
• Journal of Leisure Research. Role: Associate Editor. Associate Editor. 11/01/2017 - present

Internal Service

• Design Foundations Taskforce Committee . Member, 08/2023 - 05/2024. College service.
• Master of City and Metropolitan Planning Program Coordinator. Program Coordinator, 07/01/2023 - present. Department service.
• Chair of the Search Committee, Assistant Professor in Urban Ecology, Department of City and Metropolitan Planning . Chair, 01/2023 - 05/2023. Department service.
• Academic Senator. Senator, 08/2021 - 06/2024. University service.
• Academic Senate. Senator, 08/01/2021 - present. University service.
• Search Committee Member, Assistant Professor, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning + Natural History Museum of Utah + Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. Search committee member, 01/11/2021 - 04/01/2022. Department service.
• Master in City and Metropolitan Planning Admission Committee. Committee Member, 12/01/2019 - present. Department service.
• Assistant Professor, Department of City & Metropolitan Planning Search Committee (2019-2020). Committee Member, 09/01/2019 - 03/01/2020. Department service.
• College Facilities-Technology Committee. Committee Member, 08/15/2019 - present. College service.

Community Partnership

• Liberty Wells Community Council. Project for the Plan Making course (CMP 6160). 01/2023 - 05/2023

Honors & Awards

• Clarivate, Highly Cited Researcher. 2023. Cross-Field. Clarivate, 12/2023
• Urban Studies, Editors’ Featured Articles, Fall 2021. Awarded article: “Green gentrification or 'just green enough': Do park location, size and function affect whether a place gentrifies or not?”. https://www.urbanstudiesonline.com/editors-featured-articles/. Urban Studies, 10/01/2021
• Celebrate U Honoree, 2020. Selected as Researcher Honoree for the book titled, “Urban green spaces: Public health and sustainability in the United States.” . The University of Utah, 03/05/2020
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Arnold O. Beckman Award. Campus Research Board proposal titled “Green gentrification and its impacts on the health and well-being of marginalized communities: An environmental justice study.”. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 04/29/2019
• International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Cover Story, Volume 16, Issue, 3, 2019. Cover article: School green space and its impact on academic performance: A systematic literature review. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/3. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 02/05/2019

In the Media

• Jennings, V., Rigolon, A., & Osborne Jelks, N. (2023, September 8). When green spaces displace residents, our cities’ health suffers. NextCity. 11/08/2023. https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/when-green-spac...
• Jeremias, S. (2023, October 12). These SLC neighborhoods are getting Utahns out of their cars. How can we build more of them? The Salt Lake Tribune. 10/12/2023. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2023/10/12/these-slc-n...
• Ionescu, D. (2023, September 11). How to avoid green gentrification. Planetizen. 09/11/2023. https://www.planetizen.com/news/2023/09/125480-how...
• Vallarta, A., & Means, E. (2023, August 9). Is gentrification always bad? And other questions about changing SLC. CityCast SLC. 08/09/2023. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/city-cast-sa...
• Schnalzer, R. (2021, November 15). Parks and green spaces are vital for neighborhoods, so why aren’t there more? Los Angeles Times. 11/15/2021. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-15/...
• Rigolon, A., Banerjee, D., Gobster, P., Hadavi, S., & Stewart, W. (2021, October 21). Chicago is eliminating urban vacancies by empowering residents. Planning. 10/21/2021. https://www.planning.org/planning/2021/fall/chicag...
• Larsen, L. (2021, July 23). As climate change tightens its grip, are golf courses a luxury we can no longer afford? The Salt Lake Tribune. 07/23/2021. https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2021/07/23...
• Penney, V. (2020, September 30). Denver wants to fix a legacy of environmental racism. The New York Times. 09/30/2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/climate/city-pa...
• Upton, J, & Diaz, C. (2020, September 4). NYC’s trees: A natural defense against heat, but not equally shared. NPR’s Science Friday. 09/04/2020. https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/creating-ur...
• Plumer, B. & Popovich, N. (2020, August 24). How decades of racist housing policy left neighborhoods sweltering. The New York Times. 08/24/2020. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/24/cli...
• Urban Institute (2019, December 18). When do new parks drive gentrification? Housing Matters: An Urban Institute Initiative. 12/18/2019. https://housingmatters.urban.org/research-summary/...
• Bliss, L. (2019, September 11). Must fancy city parks displace their neighbors? CityLab. 11/11/2019. https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/09/gentrificat...
• Florida, R. (2019, October 10). Why greenway parks cause greater gentrification. CityLab. 10/10/2019. https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/10/urban-parks-g...
• Burton, K. (2019, April 1). How to predict gentrification. A socioecological model is predicting the areas of major US cities that are most likely to be affected by gentrification. Geographical Magazine. 04/01/2019. http://geographical.co.uk/places/cities/item/3124-...