David C. Southgate is a community-based adaptation and development practitioner and researcher. He serves as a Board Member for Un Nuevo Amanecer, Inc. in Playa de Ponce Puerto Rico. David is active in justice-focused community-based climate adaptation as a scholar, a land-use practitioner, and community activist. He is a 2020 – 2022 Ralph Johnson Bunche Distinguished Graduate Fellow and Ph.D. student in Public Affairs/Community Development at Rutgers University-Camden. He is interested in how planning and other social processes shape climate adaptation and produce just environmental and social outcomes in the Afro-Latino / Afro-Danish US territories of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. Southgate got his start in environmental justice and land revitalization in Puerto Rico. Today, Southgate subcontracts with EPA via ICMA and the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s Technical Assistance to Brownfields programs to channel institutional partnerships and funding that address community-identified land-use priorities.