ABOUT
Hi there,
The power of any place starts with the intersections it fosters. I learned this growing up in my family’s restaurant, a meeting ground for our community. Ever since, I've worked to facilitate a meaningful crossroads of diverse people in diverse contexts, from our campuses to our workplaces to our cities.
As an urban planner, designer, and strategist, my experience ranges from commercial corridor revitalization to community-based climate adaptation, from urban park design to equitable community development. Through these experiences, I’ve come to believe that cities are at their best when they bring people together in spaces of solidarity and coexistence.
At Gehl in New York City, I bring expertise in people-first planning and design, visual and written storytelling, and data analytics to projects that span places, scales, and disciplines. My projects at Gehl have included: analyzing and shaping the regional impact of the Walton Family Foundation’s Design Excellence program in Northwest Arkansas; designing a next-gen mobility plan for a large-scale Florida development; leading a nationwide set of pilot projects to shape just, inclusive, and healthy places with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; developing dialogue tools to foster coexistence and equal access to public spaces with SPUR, amid a rising homelessness crisis in the Bay Area; and leading analysis of Gehl’s global survey on public space usage during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A native of Worcester, Mass., I've lived, studied and worked in Washington, D.C., Paris, rural Tanzania, San Francisco, Chicago, Cambridge, New Orleans, and New York City. I hold a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University in Government, French, and Arabic, and a dual master's degree in urban planning, with distinction, from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
