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Jane Gilbert

Institutions of One Observatory, case record

From RN Collins, selected work

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The articleEdition 001: When Does One Person Become an Institution?, in The I/1 Edit ownership-platform.vercel.app

Research cited

  1. County release announcing the first Extreme Heat Action Plan, naming Gilbert and the task force co-chairs (Miami-Dade County) miamidade.gov
  2. Extreme Heat Action Plan: task force, co-chairs, priorities, and proposed actions (Miami-Dade County) miamidade.gov
  3. County record assigning Gilbert project-management duties in a school tree-canopy agreement (Miami-Dade County) miamidade.gov
  4. Urban Forestry Plan documenting shared leadership, public participation, and implementation (Miami-Dade County) miamidade.gov
  5. Career profile covering the Miami chief-resilience-officer role and the heat-officer appointment (archived copy; Barnard has removed the live page) (Barnard College via Internet Archive) web.archive.org
  6. Institutional biography recording Gilbert as managing principal of Resilience Consulting and former Miami chief resilience officer (Trust for America’s Health) tfah.org
  7. Chief heat officer model, county fragmentation, mandate, and replication (Harvard Data-Smart City Solutions) datasmart.hks.harvard.edu
  8. Question-and-answer interview in which Gilbert describes the role’s creation, responsibilities, and implementation (Governing) governing.com
  9. Independent reporting on heat conditions, policy work, and durability (Smithsonian Magazine) smithsonianmag.com
  10. Current biography identifying Chief Heat Ambassador and former county officeholder (the Climate Resilience Center is the Atlantic Council center formerly named the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center) (Climate Resilience Center) onebillionresilient.org
  11. County release announcing the restructure that consolidates the Chief Resilience, Chief Bay, and Chief Heat Officer roles (Miami-Dade County) miamidade.gov
  12. Report on the resilience office rebrand, staff cuts, and Gilbert’s planned retirement (WLRN) wlrn.org
  13. Climate Resilience Center announcement appointing Gilbert Chief Heat Ambassador (Climate Resilience Center) onebillionresilient.org
  14. Magazine report on Miami extreme-heat work, saying Gilbert left Miami-Dade late in 2025 to become chief heat ambassador (Governing) governing.com

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