Lynne Manzo

Lynne C. Manzo, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture in the College of BuiltEnvironments at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. As an EnvironmentalPsychologist, Dr. Manzo’s work focuses on understanding the relationships between people and place.She conducts activist-oriented, community-driven research to explore how place meanings and place attachments can be used to empower communities in a context of uncertainty and change. Her books include Place Attachment, Advances in Theory, Methods and Research, with Patrick Devine-Wright, (2nd edition, 2021), and the co-edited volume Changing Senses of Place: Navigating GlobalChallenges (2022). She is currently working with the Shoal water Bay Indian Tribe to help plan for the community’s expansion to the uplands in the face of sea-level rise and tsunami risk. She also works withSeattle-based race-conscious non-profit organization, Wa Na Wari to help support anti-displacement efforts in Seattle’s Central District. Both of these projects consider the power of place, processes of placekeeping and the importance of our emotional bonds to place to navigate change and foster community resilience.