Here’s how the Boston mayoral candidates say they’ll tackle the climate crisis Joan Fitzgerald, an urban planning and policy professor at Northeastern University, found Essaibi George’s plan, which does not include any timelines, to be the weakest among those of the five candidates and called Janey’s plan “lukewarm” and “not very well laid out.” Fitzgerald, who has not endorsed a candidate, did applaud Janey’s appointment of White-Hammond.