Love the Bulb

team

Susan Moffat

founder and executive director

Susan Moffat is an urbanist, curator and writer who is a long-time lover of the Albany Bulb. She has lectured on urban wilds and informal art at Stanford, SFMOMA, UC Davis, and the American Society of Landscape Architects annual conference. Trained as an urban planner, she has worked in the fields of affordable housing and environmental planning and as a journalist has published in the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BOOM: California and Estuary News. She teaches interdisciplinary courses at UC Berkeley in both the College of Environmental Design and the Arts & Humanities Division and is project director of the UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative. She has been enjoying the Albany Bulb for decades. It reminds her of the vacant lots and wild spaces of her childhood.

Angela Armendariz

Operations Director

Angela brings to Love the Bulb a diverse skill set and passion for nonprofit operations and management. A scientist by training, with strong management experience she has previously overseen the Life Sciences lab at the Exploratorium, a science museum; served as the Director of Operations at Genspace, a community biology lab; and was most recently the Deputy Director of Upward Roots, an Oakland-based nonprofit enabling youth-led community service. Angela cares deeply about social justice, access to science and nature, and community engagement and is excited to bring her nonprofit operations, finance and HR management skills to LTB. She has over ten  years of research experience in molecular biology laboratories, and has a  Ph.D. from the University of  California, Berkeley and conducted postdoctoral work at Children’s Hospital of Oakland Research Institute.

Julia Price

Programs Directors

Julia is a landscape architect with extensive experience nurturing public spaces where people come together to make the space their own, including in post-industrial spaces. In addition to her professional work at CMG landscape Architecture, she has served on the Volunteer Committee of the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, a non-profit that is reshaping the area around the formerly terribly polluted Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY into a thriving, inclusive urban watershed and public amenity. Julia has a BA in biology from UC Santa Cruz and master’s in landscape architecture from UVA. Like Angela, Julia has served on Albany’s Parks, Recreation and Open Space Commission, helping shape policy to enhance Albany’s public spaces and habitats, including the Albany Bulb.