Cancellation Policy:  No refunds will be given for cancellations or no-shows due to our limited venue capacity. Registered attendees can transfer their credit to another colleague (i.e. go in their place) for the same Guild Meeting - not for another Guild Meeting.

 
Brent lives and works in the former wetlands of West Oakland, California. Brent is known for innovative ecological engineering and green infrastructure. His work includes the design of institutional, municipal, commercial, and residential-scale living roofs, low impact stormwater projects, ecological landscapes, rainwater, greywater and ecological wastewater treatment systems.  Brent founded the Hyphae Design Laboratory an ecological engineering, research and design firm dedicated to bridging the gap between innovative architecture and ecology. 

 

Brent is also the founder and director of The Urban Biofilter a West Oakland-based green infrastructure non-profit. Their work is focused on designing and advocating for innovative approaches to bioremediation of air, water and soil in communities with severe environmental injustice issues. They're approach includes community-based design solutions, and green jobs creation. They are working with the EPA on VOC and Lead bioremediation for West Oakland superfund sites, as well as State-funded urban forest masterplan for the redevelopment of the Oakland Army Base.