M.L.A in Landscape Architecture

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, College of Agriculture & Life Science. Ithaca, New York. Fall 2021- December 2024

Concentration in Regenerative Urban Landscape Design + Infrastructure Ecologies.

Research Assistant: tRUST Lab- Regerating Urban Spaces + Terrain. 2024 -

Research Assistant for Professor Zaneta Hong in Material Ecologies.

M.U.P. in Urban Design

THE BERNARD & ANNE SPITZER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, City College. New York, New York. 2013.

  • Urban Design Program Director: Michael Sorkin

    • Spitzer School of Architecture 2013 Symposium: “Waterproofing New York.” In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, 10/12/12.

  • Research Assistant: Marshall Berman’s “South Bronx: Emerging from the Ruins.” The 9th Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism. 2013.

  • Student: J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City. Director: Toni Griffin.

M.R.P. in City & Regional Planning

B.Sc. in Urban and Regional Studies

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, College of Architecture, Art, & Planning. Ithaca, New York. 2011.

  • Concentration in Land Use and Environmental Planning.

  • Graduate Thesis: "Grand Paris: Envisioning the Post-Kyoto Metropolis." 2011.

    • Advisors: William Goldsmith and Stephan Schmidt

    • 'Grand Paris' synopsis published in Cornell's ASSOCIATION Vol. 11. 2020.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, College of Architecture, Art, & Planning, Ithaca, NY. 2006.

  • Concentration in Community and Economic Development. Minor in Real Estate.

    • Academic Advisor: Kenneth Reardon

  • Cornell Tradition Fellow

  • Cornell Urban Scholars Program

  • Best in Show, Cornell University’s Open Photography Competition

  • Activities: Cornell United Soccer

The University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Ann Arbor, MI. 2002-2004.

  • Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP): brings together students and faculty who commit to community service, diversity, and academic excellence. Students model an ideal community through intergroup engagement, responsibility, friendship, and collaboration.”

Experience

Research Assistant in Material Ecologies for Professor Zaneta Hong. Cornell University. 2023 - present

Cornell University Sustainable Design, Student Researcher/ Designer. The Soil Factory, Ithaca, NY 2022.

pkj Formations (freelance | continuing ed. in new media), Ithaca, NY, 2017 to August 2020.

Whitham Planning and Design, LLC., Planner. Ithaca, NY 2016-2017

The Memphis Urban Area MPO, Transportation Planner. Memphis, TN, 2014-2015

The J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City at SSA. Student. New York, NY, 2012-2013

Terreform: Center for Advanced Urban Research, Research Asst. New York, NY, 2012

Pfaffman + Associates, Design Intern. Pittsburg, PA, Summer 2011

New York City Economic Development Corporation, Maritime Intern. New York, NY, Summer 2007

Telesis Corporation, Summer Fellow. Brooklyn, NY, Summer 2006

Audubon Partnership for Economic Development, LDC, Intern. Inwood, New York City, Summer 2005

NeighborWorks (The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation), Felloe. Ithaca, NY, 2004-2005

The Justice Policy Institute, Externship. Washington, D.C., Cornell-in-Washington. Summer 2003.

Michigan Community Scholars Program, Community Service Coordinator. Ann Arbor/Detroit, MI, 2002-2004.


Publications

Synopsis: Grand Paris: Envisioning the first Post-Kyoto Metropolis. ASSOCIATION Volume 11, pp. 10-11, Cornell University, 2020.


Research

Co-researcher in 2012. New York City (Steady) State. Volume 1: Home Grown. Terreform, Inc. Urban Research Publishing. Draft April 2017. https://www.terreform.info/home-grown

Poetry, Prose, and Pamphlets: Labor Union Organizing in 20th Century Detroit. December 2002. The Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)

 

Teaching

Adjunct Lecturer, Cornell Prison Education Program. Designed the Curriculum and Instrucuted the ‘Math Lab.’ at Elmira Correctional Facility. Elmira, NY, 2022.

 

Certificates: LEED Green. Assoc./ Smart Cities – Management of Smart Urban Infrastructures, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

Continuing Education:

Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3)- New Media and Multimedia Design; Graphic Design; Video Production and Editing; Technology & the Environment; Digital Photography; Physics // Cornell- ART: Transmedia Design

Volunteer Work:

Southside Community Center- Ithaca, NY. Music Studio Volunteer, Summer 2021

Loaves and Fishes Community Soup Kitchen -Ithaca, NY. intermittently between 2015-2018, 2023-