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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

Plan Management Specialist, Planning & Resilience Bureau, NYC Emergency Management, New York, NY, 2024–present

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