Isa Gaillard is an urban planner and policy professional with experience in environmental justice, sustainable transportation, and capacity building. He studied public policy at the University of Michigan and received a Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award for his efforts engaging diverse communities to promote cross-cultural collaboration. As a Graham Sustainability Scholar, he developed a proposal to combat university carbon emissions by planting old-growth trees in a permaculture system.

During his time in the Bay Area, Isa completed an Environmental Justice Fellowship at the Center for Environmental Health and worked on regional transportation and safe routes to schools programs at TransForm. He then earned a master’s in city planning from UC Berkeley, developing a framework for how cities can integrate environmental justice into their planning processes. During his graduate studies, Isa completed fellowships with the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation and the Foreign Language Area Studies Program, concentrating on Latin America.

Prior to Equitable Cities, Isa developed and lead the Towards Equitable Electric Mobility (TEEM) Community of Practice and supported the Greenlining Institute’s capacity building projects. Isa lives in Austin, Texas, where he enjoys exploring nature, playing basketball, and reading science fiction.