Over her 30-year career, Anindita  Mitra has been a land use planner, green building architect, urban designer, researcher, educator and an energy and equity activist. Sustainability has been at the core of Ms. Mitra’s company, CREÄ Affiliates, LLC, headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Some of her notable publications include Painting the Town Green (RICS, 2003), and Planning Infrastructure to Sustain America (ASCE, 2010). Much of her work lies at the intersection of land, water, energy, food, human health and equitable opportunity. She embeds this understanding into the planning and design of large infrastructure projects, land use plans, buildings and site solutions. She has a Master’s Degree in City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley and an Architectural Degree from the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi,