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Education

• 2021: Master in City Planning (MCP) and Certificate in Urban Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
• 2018: BA in Environmental Studies with Distinction,   Yale University, New Haven, CT
• 2016: Exchange Student - Art History and Landscape & Food Studies, Université Paris-IV La Sorbonne

Professional Experience

• 2023 - Present: Project Manager & Urban Designer II, HERE LA, Los Angeles, CA
  

• 2021 - 2023: Urban Planner & Designer, Toole Design Group, Seattle, WA
• 2018 - 2021: Project Manager & Designer, Civic Data Design Lab at MIT, Cambridge, MA
• 2020: Graduate Intern, City Design Multistudio, Kansas City, MO (Remote) 
• 2018 - 2019: Grants & Programs Fellow, International Rescue Committee, Nairobi, Kenya
  

Skills

• Digital Design: Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop.
• Mapping: ArcGIS, QGIS, ESRI Story Maps. 
• Fabrication: Welding (Stick, MIG), Laser Cutting, Casting, Printmaking.
• Languages: English, French, Kiswahili. 

Projects & Publications

• Our Recipe for Active Streets, Presentation at APA Washington Conference, 2022. 
• Freelance Writing, Dispatches in Architecture and Urban Design, New York Review of Architecture (NYRA), 2021 - 2023. 
• Freelance Cartography, 2021 - Present. 
• Mandela, Massachusetts: Design Futures for a Proposed City, public art project supported by Data Feminism Lab and MIT DUSP. 
• Industrial Remix: Integrating Manufacturing in Torino, design framework for Regio Parco, 2020.

Grants & Awards

• ITE Project of the Year, Planning: Tacoma Vision Zero Action Plan, 2022. 
• DUSP Social Impact Fellow, MIT, 2020. 
• Friedman Family Fellow; RITM Fellow, and Summer Environmental Fellow, Yale University, 2017.