Isa Gaillard

Isa Gaillard is a Senior Transportation Planner at Equitable Cities where he works at the intersection of sustainable transportation, capacity building, and environmental justice. Prior to Equitable Cities, Isa developed and lead the Towards Equitable Electric Mobility (TEEM) Community of Practice and supported the Greenlining Institute’s capacity building projects. He earned a master's in city planning from the University of California, Berkeley with a concentration in Environmental Planning and Healthy Cities. He is passionate about creating a future in which all communities have the knowledge, resources, and power to turn their visions for their neighborhoods into reality. Prior to graduate school, Isa studied public policy at the University of Michigan and worked with Native American communities across the state, developing an interest in indigenous perspectives and practices in relation to sustainability. While at Michigan, Isa received a Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Award for his efforts engaging with diverse communities to promote cross-cultural collaboration. As a Graham Sustainability Scholar, he developed a proposal to combat university carbon emissions by planting old-growth trees in a permaculture system. During his time in the Bay Area, Isa completed an Environmental Justice Fellowship at the Center for Environmental Health and worked on regional transportation issues and safe routes to schools programs at TransForm. As a master's student, he interned with the San Francisco Planning Department and worked with advocacy groups, city planners, and policymakers to design a framework for integrating environmental justice into the city’s general plan. He completed his master's work by writing a client report for the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, developing recommendations for cities and counties to leverage air quality data and community engagement in their efforts to incorporate environmental justice into their planning process. Isa lives in Austin, Texas, where he enjoys exploring nature, playing basketball, and reading science fiction.