I am an urban designer and social scientist based in New York City, where I support placemaking projects in the public realm. As an environmental design specialist with the nonprofit GrowNYC, my professional work spans community building, open space conservation, and resilient urbanism on a local scale.
My work in open space design with GrowNYC has been featured in The New York Times, while my environmental and social science research has been published in the landscape architecture journal PLOT, the Michigan Journal of Sustainability, the journal Mind & Society, and the book Sustainable Consumption, Promise or Myth?
As an interdisciplinary practitioner, I hold professional degrees in environmental psychology and social work from the University of Michigan, in addition to post-graduate training in urban design from the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. I have co-taught and lectured in environmental psychology and public health at the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and Hunter College.