He is a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Emerging Issues, a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers, and serves as Co-Director of the College of Design’s Ghana Study Abroad Program. Through scholarship, teaching, and extension service Professor Boone works in the landscape context of environmental justice. His works emphasizes community empowerment through capacity building, asset mapping and cultural landscape documentation, and vision planning and the co-authorship of design strategies. His research includes the use of mobile technology, digital video production, and other new media tools as a means of increasing community power in design and planning processes. Associate Professor, NC State University, College of Design, Department of Landscape Architecture M.L.A, Landscape Architecture, University of Michigan B.S.N.R., University of Michigan