I am a licensed architect and urban planner with projects across the United States, the Middle and the Far East, and Africa. I am also a doctoral candidate in Architecture and the Associate Director of the Urban Design Lab at the University of Oregon. I’m inspired by the capacity of design to empower communities. (CV below).
My systems-based planning solutions for sustainable communities were featured in Architect Magazine (2011) and received awards such as the Lafarge Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction (2012), the APA’s Outstanding Collaborative Planning Project (2016), the Mayor’s Choice Award, City of Eugene (2017). My research has received the Julie and Roxy Dixon Fellowship (2017) and support from partner organizations such as Save the Children Philippines and the Hyderabad Urban Lab (2018-19).
I am interested in research about urban design and social interaction among marginalized communities: How is the built environment a vehicle for exacerbating social inequalities and how can it be a solution? How does the human context of design reflect and inscribe social attitudes in a city? How may architecture be appropriated to advance social sustainability and urban resilience?
My most recent publications include a chapter in Whose Tradition, “New Traditions of Placemaking in Central-West Africa” (2017) and “The Neoliberal Landscape in Hyderabad, India: How architectural transformations in the tech city challenge tradition & identity” in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review WPS Fall 2018. My dissertation, Life on the Urban Fringe, investigates how neoliberal urban policies affect marginalized kid’s social lives in three global cities.
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