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Curriculum vitae (abbreviated)

Education

Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, NY, May 2023
MS, Urban Planning (Concentration: Built Environment)

Fordham University, Fordham College of Rose Hill, New York, NY, May 2019
BA, Environmental Studies (Concentration: Environmental Design); Architecture Minor

Professional Experience

Program Manager – Resiliency Grants, Planning & Resiliency, NYC Emergency Management, New York, NY, 2025–present

Specialist – Plan Management, Planning & Resiliency, NYC Emergency Management, New York, NY, 2024–2025

Public Space Alliance Fellow, Friends of the High Line, New York, NY, Summer 2022–Spring 2023

Climate Adaptation Planning Fellow, Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice, New York, NY, Summer 2022

Planning & Streetscape Intern, Garment District Alliance, New York, NY, Summer 2022

Account Coordinator & Digital Content Producer, Sir Isaac (creative marketing agency), Salem, MA, 2020–2021.

Coordinator, Zero Waste Programs, GrowNYC, New York, NY, 2017–2020

Organizing & Research Experience

Co-Founder, BERM Collective, New York, NY, 2023–present

Founding Member, CUBE – Climate Urgency for the Built Environment, New York, NY, 2019–2021

Organizer and team leader, Sunrise NYC (Sunrise Movement), New York, NY, 2019–2021

Publications

"Offshore wind ports and the Just Transition: Community-based planning and power in New York City's industrial waterfront communities," graduate thesis, Columbia University, 2023.

"Envisioning Community-Led Climate Adaptation & Housing Mobility in San Juan, Puerto Rico," Urban Magazine 32, December 2022, 58-63.

"Ecological Restoration as Eco-Art," Urban Magazine 32, December 2022, 54-57.

“Land Adaptation Opportunities,” in What Happens with the Land After Residential Buyouts?, edited by L. Wang & M. McCann, New York: NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice & The Nature Conservancy, 2022.

“People’s Pocket Park: Main Streets as a Center of City Life” (with A. Boornazian & M. Reid, et al.), in City Life After Coronavirus: Gallery of Urban Ideas, Urban Design Forum, September 2020.

"Making Sustainability Accessible: Green Affordable Housing Development in the South Bronx," undergraduate thesis, Fordham University, 2019.

Selected Projects

  • desire paths (/play), self-initiated, 2024–present; included in the exhibition Unbound Blueprint: The Art of Urban Liberation (New York, 2024)

With BERM

  • Reimagining Hydro-Citizenship, self-initiated, 2023–present
  • This Land Could Be Ours: Community Design of Vacant Lots, self-initiated, 2023

With Columbia GSAPP

  • Resilient Caribbean: Prototyping a Hub for the Dominican Republic, studio project with Columbia World Projects’ initiative “Building Climate Resilient Communities in the Dominican Republic,” Spring 2023
  • Envisioning Community-led Climate Adaptation and Housing Mobility in San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2022
  • Retreat or Resurgence? Reimaging Planning for Climate Change in New York City, studio project in collaboration with NYC MOCEJ, Spring 2022

With CUBE

  • NYClimacy Forums, Sunrise NYC, Spring 2021
  • Carbon Neutrality Innovation Challenge, NYC Department of Buildings, August 2020
  • People's Pocket Park (P3): Open streets design pilot, self-initiated, 2020

Media

  • Wake Up, New York! A Sunrise NYC Podcast, produced by Sunrise NYC Podcasts, New York: Sunrise NYC (Sunrise Movement), 2021, podcast [producer & executive editor; 6 episodes]
  • Crusonia Conversations, St. Louis: Crusonia Forum, 2020, video podcast. [managing producer & editor; 8 episodes]
  • World Café, hosted by Talia Schlanger, Philadelphia: WXPN, distributed by NPR, 2019 [site producer; 1 episode]
  • FUV Live, produced by Alisa Ali, New York: WFUV, 2016-2019 [producer & audio engineer; 65 episodes]
  • Cavalcade, hosted by Paul Cavalconte, New York: WFUV, 2016-2017 [producer; 2 episodes]
  • Sunday Supper, hosted by John Platt, New York: WFUV, 2016-2017 [producer; 11 episodes]

Professional Development

Certifications

Study abroad

Honors & Awards

  • New York Foundation for the Arts, Queens Arts Fund, 2024 [grant awarded to BERM]
  • Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals, Center for Architecture, 2023 [awarded to URBAN Magazine 32]
  • Waterfront Scholar, Waterfront Alliance, 2023
  • AIC Scholarship, Aspen Ideas: Climate, 2023
  • Waterfront Scholar, Waterfront Alliance, 2022