Ariel Lauren Wilson

Lauren is the Senior Director of Marketing and Communications at New York Restoration Project and a Green-Wood Cemetery Environmental Research Fellow. Raised on her family’s farm in western North Carolina, she developed an early connection to land and environmental stewardship that continues to shape her work. She was a 2018 Fellow at Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture and has contributed to local environmental initiatives including helping create the first map of Manhattan’s wetland soils and supporting the launch of the historic 1,000 Chestnut Challenge. Outside of her professional role, she is an active member of P.L.A.N.T., a neighborhood greening group that has won Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Greenest Block in Brooklyn competition three times.

Whitney Bauck

Whitney Bauck is an award-winning climate and environment journalist and a Green-Wood Cemetery Environmental Research Fellow. She is a contributing writer at the Guardian, was formerly print editor at Atmos, and has reported for the New York Times, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, the Washington Post, Grist, New York Magazine and Slate, among others. Whitney has held fellowships and residencies at the Solutions Journalism Network, the Metcalf Institute, North Coast Project, the Fetzer Institute, and the Institute for Journalism and Natural Resources. She was a 2024 and 2025 Covering Climate Now award winner and a 2025 finalist for the Science in Society awards. Find more of Whitney’s work via her newsletter, Instagram, or Bluesky.