Catherine Tumber is a Senior Research Associate at Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and a Fellow of the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth’s Gateway Cities Innovation Institute. A historian and journalist, Tumber previously worked as a research affiliate in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning’s Community Innovators Lab, where she wrote her acclaimed book Small, Gritty and Green. Her areas of expertise include low-carbon economic development, metropolitan land use and governance, sustainable urbanism, and US social and cultural history. She has also worked as an editor for the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Review, and written for both publications as well as for many others.