Laurie Mazur is the editor for the Island Press Urban Resilience Project, which is supported by the Kresge Foundation. She is the editor of the books A Pivotal Moment: Population, Justice and the Environmental Challenge and Beyond the Numbers: a Reader on Population, Consumption and the Environment and co-author of Marketing Madness: a Survival Guide to a Consumer Society. Mazur also founded and for several years directed the Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health and Rights. She is a graduate of Oberlin College.