Juan Camilo Osorio Botero is an Associate Professor at Pratt Institute's Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment. He serves as a Commissioner in the New York City Planning Commission, appointed by the Brooklyn Borough President, Antonio Reynoso, to leverage two decades of professional experience working as an architect and urban planner in collaboration with grassroots leaders across New York City. In addition, he has been appointed to serve in many advisory capacities including the NYC Offshore Wind Advisory Council; the Land Use and Local Government Advisory Panel convened by the NYS Governor to inform the implementation of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA); and the Community Resiliency in Environmental Justice Industrial Waterfront Communities Work Group convened by the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (NEJAC). His work explores the tension between cities and the political economy of climate action and disaster recovery, where socio-economic and environmental inequality exacerbate each other at all stages of the planning process. This includes research, policy design, technical assistance and advocacy campaigns on community-based planning, environmental justice and climate change mitigation and adaptation. He holds a professional degree in architecture from the National University of Colombia, a masters in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, and a doctorate in Urban and Regional Planning from MIT.