Roger Hart, Co-Director
His work focuses on the development of theory and research on children’s relationship to the physical environment. He has been particularly concerned with the application of research to the planning and design of children’s environments and to environmental education. In recent years, he has been more broadly concerned with developing theory, research and programs which foster the greater participation of young people in articulating their perspectives and concerns as a way of better fulfilling their rights.

Pamela Wridt, Co-Director
Pamela Wridt joined CERG in March 2010 and is currently serving as Co-Director, along with Roger Hart.  Dr. Wridt holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Geography Education and a PhD in Environmental Psychology.  For the last 5 years she served as Associate Chair and Senior Instructor in the Department of Planning & Design at the University of Colorado Denver.  Pamela's teaching and research interests include children's participation, children's geographies, child friendly cities, community mapping, participatory GIS, geography teacher education, active living, urban planning and community development.  She is currently helping to direct UNICEF's Child Friendly Cities Research Initiative in 12 countries, evaluating a global education and citizenship project for the US Fund for UNICEF, writing a community mapping curriculum on children's rights with funding from the Bernard van Leer Foundation, and working on a range of community based initiatives in New York.  Her recent publications include: uMAP (provide hyperlink to http://www.umapthecommunity.org), a bilingual, practitioner-based website funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, that provides educational resources for children's participation in community development and active living using community mapping as a methodology; and "A qualitative GIS approach to mapping urban neighborhoods with children to promote physical activity and child-friendly community planning" Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 37(1) 129 – 147

Kim Sabo Flores
Dr. Flores is a Senior Researcher with the Children’s Environments Research Group.  She is also the creator and director of Evaluation Access and the director of Evaluation and Organizational Learning at ActKnolwedge, a consulting firm based at The Graduate Center.   For the past two decades Dr. Flores has introduced hundreds of adults and young people, their programs and their communities to the empowering impact of creative and sustained participation, reflection and evaluation.  She has conducted international research and evaluation projects that have focused on children's rights, post conflict, protection, international development, and a variety of social issues. Specifically, she has worked with government, UN Agencies, and non government agencies to explore the implementation strategies and impacts of the Convention on The Rights Of The Child. Kim has authored several books and publications on evaluation, and organizational learning and development.

Blair Osler
Blair Osler is Project Manager/Director with the Children’s Environments Research Group.  She holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Columbia University where she specialized in the program development and evaluation of child and youth organizations, with an emphasis on participatory practice.  Mrs. Osler has since immersed herself not only in participatory evaluation, but also in the field of the participatory rights of young people as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.  Her work centers around the participatory structures of groups and organizations self-managed by young people. 

Martin Ruck
Martin Ruck is an Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His work examines the overall process of cognitive socialization – at the intersection of race, ethnicity and class – in terms of children’s and adolescents’ thinking about human rights, educational opportunity and social justice. Over the past few years he has been examining the influence of social contexts on the development of children’s and young people’s understanding of nurturance and self-determination rights. Currently, he is investigating how children’s perceptions of racial exclusion and discrimination are influenced by their social experiences and interpretations of rights and justice.

Cindi Katz
Cindi Katz is Professor of Geography in Environmental Psychology and Women's Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her work concerns social reproduction and the production of space, place and nature; children and the environment, and the consequences of global economic restructuring for everyday life. She has published widely on these themes as well as on social theory and the politics of knowledge in edited collections and in journals such as Society and Space, Social Text, Signs, Feminist Studies, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Social Justice, and Antipode. She is the editor (with Janice Monk) of Full Circles: Geographies of Gender over the Life Course (Routledge 1993) and of Life's Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction (with Sallie Marston and Katharyne Mitchell) (Blackwell 2004). She recently completed Growing up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives with University of Minnesota Press in 2004. Katz held a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and she continues to work on the project she began there concerning the shifting geographies of late twentieth century US childhood.

Bijan Kimiagar
Bijan Kimiagar is a graduate student in the Environmental Psychology doctoral program at the City University of New York Graduate Center. 
His research examines and aims to promote healthy educational environments; interactive and critical global pedagogies; children’s understanding of global problems and moral responsibility; young people’s participation in solutions to social and environmental injustices; and overcoming social and psychological barriers to conservation practices.
During his studies at UCLA, he focused on peer influence, bullying and resiliency in adolescents transitioning from elementary to middle schools. This knowledge continues to inform his current work. 

Aida Izadpanahjahromi

Jennifer Tang