M.L.A in Landscape Architecture
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, College of Agriculture & Life Science. Ithaca, New York. Fall 2021- December 2024
Concentration in Regenerative Landscape and Infrastructure Design.
Research Assistant: tRUST Lab- Regenerating 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.”
Research Assistant: Marshall Berman’s “South Bronx: Emerging from the Ruins.” The 9th Annual Lewis Mumford Lecture on Urbanism. 2013.
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
Whitham Planning Design Landscape Architecture, PLLC., Designer. Ithaca, NY. 2025- present
tRUST Lab: Regenerating Urban Spaces + Terrain. Cornell AAP. Designer/Researcher. Industrial Placemaking in South Collinwood Cleveland. Ithaca, NY and Remote. 2024- present
PopExtinction6 LLC, Founder, multimedia creative studio. Ithaca, NY. 2017 - present
Research Assistant in Material Ecologies, w/Professor Zaneta Hong. Cornell. Ithaca, NY. 2023 - 2024
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 Asst. New York, NY. 2012-2013
Terreform: Center for Advanced Urban Research, Research Asst. New York, NY, 2012
Pfaffmann + Associates, Planning + Design Intern. Pittsburg, PA. Summer 2011
New York City Economic Development Corporation, Maritime Intern. New York, NY. Summer 2007
Audubon Partnership for Economic Development, LDC, Intern. Inwood, New York, NY. Summer 2005
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Cornell Tradition Fellow. Ithaca, NY. 2004-2005
The Justice Policy Institute, Externship. Cornell-in-Washington. Washington, D.C. Summer 2003
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
Cornell Prison Education Program. Designed the Curriculum and Instructed the ‘Math Lab.’ at Elmira Correctional Facility. Elmira, NY, 2022.
Teaching Assistant: F2024 LA: Methods of Landscape Architecture Inquiry. SP2025 LA5900: Theoretical Foundations in Landscape Architecture. SP2025 LA 6020 Design Studio: Just Transitioning with Cayuga Inlet. Ithaca, NY.
Certificates: LEED Green. Assoc./ Smart Cities – Management of Smart Urban Infrastructures, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.