experience
MS Design and Urban Ecologies 2014 | Parsons The New School for Design Bachelor of Architecture 2012 | Philadelphia University Summer Program Fellow Hester Street Collaborative [June 2014 - August 2014] Designed engagement tools to educate and gather input from communities about projects. Constructed community engagement mobile outreach toolkit designed for the Queensway Feasibility Study. The toolkit is on display at the exhibition, “QueensWay Connection: Elevating The Public Realm ” held at the New York City Center for Architecture. Aided in the construction of mural shade canopy for Paths to Pier 42 at the Lower East Side Waterfront in New York City.
Web / Graphics Content Manager
Parsons The New School for Design; School of Design Strategies [September 2012 - July 2014] Designed and assembled visual assets for the Urban@Parsons website as well as the MS Design and Urban Ecologies and MA Theories of Urban Practice program sites (urban.parsons.edu site live but in progress). Coordinated logistics and promotional materials for School of Design Strategiies events.
leadership
Structures for Inclusion 14 | Planning Team Developed Public Interest Design conference program booklet and web presence on Urban@Parsons. Aided and arranged event administrative details including schedule, speakers, and workshop locations.
Team Captain/President
AIAS Freedom by Design | Philadelphia University [September 2011 - May 2012] Led a team of 15 people to redesign, fund, and construct an accessible kitchen for a wheelchair bound individual in the local Philadelphia community.
professional presentation
Structures for Inclusion 2014
international partnership
Urbanisms of Inclusion
Presented with colleague and community partner to event attendees about public space through the lense of street food vending. The work presented was developed through one year-long graduate thesis research.
Atlantis Transatlantic Education Program [June 28 - July 8, 2013] Selected to receive a grant from the US Department of Education to travel to Venice, Italy to collaborate in international workshop titled “Recycling Cities.” Implemented participatory research tools such as a sociogram and conducted informal interviews with active citizens of Lido, Venice to save an abandoned hospital for re-use.
membership design tools
portfolio
Honorable Mention | 111th John Stewardson Memorial Fellowship in Architecture 2012 Earned one of three honorable mentions chosen from 39 entrants in 10 day competition to design a cinema, an urban park, and landscape proposal for limited sections of the Reading Viaduct and Spring Garden Greenway in Philadelphia, PA.
Emerging New York Architects [September 2012 - Present] Young Architects Forum Philadelphia [January 2011 - May 2012] Adobe Creative Design Standard Suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Digital Modeling + Drawing: AutoCAD, Revit Architecture, Rhino Web + Mapping: QGIS, TileMill, CartoDB, Wordpress, HTML & CSS Code Physical: Hand drafting, Sketching, Modeling, Lasercutter
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Parsons The New School for Design + Design Corps [January 2014 - March 2014]
recognition
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education