Aron Chang is an urban designer, researcher, and educator based in New Orleans. He is a co-founder and co-lead of the Water Leaders Institute. He is currently working on a Water Map of New Orleans as well as New Orleans’s Gentilly Resilience District. He is also a founder of Civic Studio, a cooperative (formerly the Blue House) focused on civic dialogue, multi-disciplinary storytelling, and equitable planning and design practices. From 2014 to 2018, he served as co-founder and co-director of Ripple Effect, an organization that promotes water literacy through teacher training and curriculum development. From 2011 to 2017, he worked as an urban designer, resilience planner, and project manager at Waggonner & Ball Architecture/Environment, where he was a design team lead and outreach coordinator for the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan. Aron moved to the Gulf Coast in 2009 after studying architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.