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Jenifer Wightman
Trained as a toxicologist, Jenifer Wightman is a research scientist at Cornell University specializing in greenhouse gas inventories to identify climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies for agriculture, forestry, dairy, waste and bioenergy systems. She is part-time faculty at Parsons – The New School for Design where she teaches sustainable systems and biodesign. Her art practice began in 2002 and employs scientific tropes to incite curiosity of biological phenomenon and inform an ecological rationality. Her art has been commissioned by NYC parks, featured at the Lincoln Center and Imagine Science Festival and is held in collections such as the Morgan Library, Library of Congress, Gutenberg Museum, Bodmer Museum and the Danish Royal Library.