SAHAR COSTON-HARDY is a fine art and landscape architecture photographer whose work is focused on the intersections of race and cultural identity. Her photography and artwork integrate portraiture, urban design, and street photography, with an emphasis on the relationship between place, power, and personhood. Throughout her career, she has sought to find the humanity at the forefront of conversations concerning social justice, class, and equity in urban design and landscape. A graduate of Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Coston-Hardy's passion for the natural and built environments began as a child hiking in Valley Green, an extension of Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park. She has lectured frequently on urban design photography and visual storytelling, and her work has been widely published, most recently in Landscape Architecture Magazine, Architect, Oprah Daily, and Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. Coston-Hardy's collaborative projects have received national recognition, including a Women Photograph + Nikon grant, a Gold EXCEL Award from Association Media & Publishing, and the first ASLA Award of Excellence for Urban Design, awarded to the design firm OLIN, for Dilworth Park in Philadelphia.

JENNIFER REUT, PhD, is an architectural and landscape historian and writer who specializes in issues related to landscape, culture, cities, race, infrastructure, art, rural communities, and environmental and economic justice.  She was written extensively on issues of landscape and race, including “The River Beneath the River,” an EXCEL award-winning article on the Anacostia River, as well as articles on the Valongo Slave Port in Brazil and the landscape of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC. She is the founder of Mapping the Green Book, a project begun in 2012 as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the National Museum of African American History and Culture that looks at the landscape of cultural, economic, and social networks created by the Green Book and other travel guides for African Americans published in the 20th century.   She served as the historical advisor and appeared in the recent documentary Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America on PBS from by Dr. Gretchen Sorin and Emmy-winning director Ric Burns and Steeplechase Films.

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