Dr. C. L. Mason, Ph.D., created the first AAAI Workshop on Applied AI and Environment and the first IJCAI Workshop on AI and Environment. Editor and author of the book, "Artificial Intelligence and The Environment," 2019, She has worked on AI and Distributed AI at NASA Ames, UC Berkeley and Stanford University. She is a former fellow Stanford School of Medicine and researcher on the NY Times bestseller, "The Mind and How to Build One".