Connie L. Johnston, Ph.D., is a Senior Professional Lecturer in the Department of Geography & GIS at DePaul University in Chicago. Her current scholarly and teaching interests relate to sustainable futures and human-nonhuman relations in urban environments. In 2024, she received the Wicklander Fellowship in Applied Ethics from DePaul’s Driehaus College of Business for her project “The more-than-human city: The ethics of multi-species urban planning and design” (one product of which is this story map: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/655afc44c3d347659bcc0a7ef9ccedf8). Recent publications include book chapters on shared human-nonhuman impacts of COVID-19 in urban spaces and imagining an ethical post-human identity in a time of climate crisis. She also co-authored/edited (with Julie Urbanik, Ph.D.) Humans and Animals: A Geography of Coexistence (ABC-CLIO 2017). In terms of her teaching, a primary goal is to have students recognize both the variety of nonhuman life in our urban environments and also the ways in which our human values shape our impact on that life. She encourages students to adopt an attitude of kinship with the myriad forms of life that make up our urban spaces.