I'm an environmental designer and social scientist based in New York City, where I support community development and environmental stewardship through placemaking and urban design. My current work includes building public green spaces across the five boroughs.

Projects that I have contributed to with the environmental nonprofit GrowNYC have been featured in The New York Times. My environmental and social science research has been published in the landscape architecture journal PLOT, the Michigan Journal of Sustainability, the journal Mind & Society, and the book Sustainable Consumption, Promise or Myth?​​​​​​​

I have an interdisciplinary background in social work and natural resource management from the University of Michigan and trained in urban design at the City College of New York. I have co-taught courses in environmental psychology at the University of Michigan and presented my work in public health and urban design at Columbia University, the City University of New York, the UN Habitat's Urban Thinkers Campus, and the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative.