Sheila Foster
Professor at Columbia University's Climate School and an affiliated faculty member at Columbia Law School.
Sheila Foster is a leading scholar of cities, democracy, and the urban commons. Her work explores how communities share responsibility for the public spaces, institutions, and resources that shape everyday life. Through her research on governance, equity, and collective stewardship, she challenges conventional ideas about who creates, cares for, and benefits from the places we share.
Her work invites us to see democracy not simply as a system of government, but as a practice rooted in the stewardship of our common spaces.