EDUCATION
Rutgers University-Newark, Ph.D. Global Urban Studies, projected 2026
Parsons School of Design, M.A. Theories of Urban Practice, 2017
Thesis: “Dispositioning Systems: Infrastructures of Affect in the Locative City”
Received departmental honors
University of California Berkeley, Certificate of Completion, Summer [IN]STITUTE in Environmental Design, 2014
University of North Texas, B.A. Political Science, 2009
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Rutgers University - Newark, Newark, NJ
Graduate Assistant, 2022-present
Contributing housing policy research and qualitative data collection and analysis to project led by Mara Sidney, Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Global Urban Studies doctoral program
Parsons School of Design - The New School, New York, NY
Part-Time Faculty, 2022-present
Teaching the undergraduate Advanced Research Seminar in Constructed Environments, available to architecture, interior design, and product design students through the School of Art, Design, History and Theory
The Architectural League of New York, New York, NY
Managing Editor, Urban Omnibus, 2019 – 2022
Oversaw day-to-day operations, helped shape editorial strategy, and produced individual features and series for The Architectural League of New York’s long-standing digital magazine examining the collective work of citymaking
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), New York, NY
Publications and Digital Editor, 2018 – 2019
Editorial Assistant, 2017 – 2018
Produced digital content, edited print monographs and essay collections, and organized public-facing events and internal office exhibitions for eminent architecture and engineering firm
The New School, New York, NY, School of Media Studies
Research Assistant, 2016
Selected and edited images for the 2018 book Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: 5000 Years of Urban Media by Shannon Mattern (former faculty at The New School; currently the Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Media Studies and Art History at the University of Pennsylvania)
OTHER EXPERIENCE
Failed Architecture, Amsterdam, Netherlands (remote)
Organizer, 2021 – 2022
Editor, 2017 – present
Wrote and edited articles, produced podcasts, and developed social media and fundraising strategies for international, web-based platform focused on architecture and spatial politics
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023-present︎Advanced Research Seminar in Constructed Environments: Art, Design, History and Theory, Parsons School of Design
2018-2019︎Audio Production Workshops: Design Studies, Parsons School of Design
2016-2017︎[dis]orientation Fall Intensives: Design and Urban Ecologies, Parsons School of Design
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
“Strike Fever,” The New York Review of Architecture (May 2023): https://nyra.nyc/articles/strike-fever-new-school
“Against the Commonsdocuments the often not-deal role of shared land in urban planning,” The Architect’s Newspaper (February 2023): https://www.archpaper.com/2023/02/against-the-commons-documents-often-not-ideal-role-shared-land-urban-planning/
“Second Chances,” Urban Omnibus (September 2022): https://urbanomnibus.net/2022/09/second-chances/
with Gabriel Sandoval, “Big Tech Pays to Supersize LinkNYC and Revive Broken Promise to Bidge Digital Divide,” THE CITY (April 2022): https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/4/27/23045122/link5g-free-wifi-tech-linknyc
“Adaptive Refuse,” Failed Architecture (October 2021): https://failedarchitecture.com/adaptive-refuse/
with Rose Salane, “Lost in Transit,” Urban Omnibus (September 2019): https://urbanomnibus.net/2019/09/lost-in-transit/
“Pattern Recognition,” Urban Omnibus (June 2019): https://urbanomnibus.net/2019/06/pattern-recognition/
“Hudson Yards Was Not Inevitable,” Failed Architecture (March 2019): https://failedarchitecture.com/hudson-yards-was-not-inevitable/
“Stop Seeing Climate Change as an ‘Opportunity’ for Architecture,” Failed Architecture (November 2018): https://failedarchitecture.com/stop-seeing-climate-change-as-an-opportunity-for-architecture/
“City Skins: Scenes from an Augmented Urban Reality,” Failed Architecture (September 2018): https://failedarchitecture.com/city-skins-scenes-from-an-augmented-urban-reality/
Interviews
with Bernheimer Architecture Union and Andrew Daley, “An Extremely Normal Architecture Office,”Urban Omnibus (May 2023): https://urbanomnibus.net/2023/05/an-extremely-normal-architecture-office/
with Memo Salazar and Nandini Bagchee, “Trust Exercise,” Urban Omnibus (November 2021): https://urbanomnibus.net/2021/12/trust-exercise/
with idris brewster and Glenn Cantave, “A Monumental Shift,” Guernica (February 2021): https://www.guernicamag.com/a-monumental-shift/
with James Heard, Maya Porath, and Shota Vashakmadze, “Building Structure and Building Power,” Urban Omnibus (October 2020): https://urbanomnibus.net/2020/09/building-structure-and-building-power/
with Matthew Malina, “Saving Water,” Urban Omnibus (April 2020): https://urbanomnibus.net/2020/04/saving-water/
with Rania Dalloul, Lulu Johnson, Greg Mihalko, Maggie Schreiner, and Clara Weinstein, “Co-Op Collectibles,”Urban Omnibus (January 2020): https://urbanomnibus.net/2020/01/co-op-collectibles/
Book Chapters
“Back into the Locative: Theory and Practice in Urban Augmented Reality, 1999-2016” in Larissa Hjorth, Adriana de Souza e Silva and Klare Lanson, eds., The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media Art (Routledge, 2020)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
with Urban Intelligence (21 graduate students), “Auditing Urban Intelligence: Interfacing Place-Based Knowledge,”Leonardo Electronic Almanac (2019): https://www.leoalmanac.org/auditing-urban-intelligence-interfacing-place-based-knowledge-urban-intelligence-the-new-school/
Edited Collections
Editor and audio producer, “Dispatches” series on Urban Omnibus (Spring 2020 – Fall 2020): https://urbanomnibus.net/series/dispatches/
Editor, with Shannon Mattern and Mariana Mogilevich, “Digital Frictions” series on Urban Omnibus(Fall 2019 – Winter 2020): https://urbanomnibus.net/series/digital-frictions/
Associate Editor, The Future of Transportation (Metropolis Books, 2019)
Assistant Editor, The Future of Public Space (Metropolis Books, 2018)
EVENTS
Co-organizer and documenter, with Christin Hu and Failed Architecture, “Situation #11: Lawful Evil, Architecturally Considered” workshop, New York, NY, November 20, 2021
Co-organizer and co-host, with Guillermo León Gómez, Shannon Mattern, The Architectural League of New York and Urban Design Forum, “Centering Public Knowledge” panel discussion, New York, NY, October 5, 2021
Co-facilitator, with Dan Archer, Eulani Labay, Ziv Schneider, Corey Tegeler and Joe Wheeler and Magnum Foundation, “Photography Expanded: Counter-Histories” project development laboratory, April 16 – 17, 2018
Co-organizer, with Amy Gill and SOM, “The Future of Public Space” event series, New York, NY, Washington, D.C., Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, and London, UK, Spring 2018 – Summer 2018
Co-organizer, with Francisco Miranda and Parsons School of Design, “[dis]orientation” graduate student workshop, New York, NY, August 22 – 25, 2017
Co-organizer, with Francisco Miranda, Masoom Moitra, and Parsons School of Design, “[dis]orientation” graduate student workshop, New York, NY, August 21 – 27, 2016
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS
Co-presenter, with Mara Sidney and Tamara Velasquez Lieferman, “The Everyday Life of Governance: People, Places, and Policies in the wake of Covid-19,” 51st Conference of the Urban Affairs Association, Nashville, TN, April 27, 2023
Presenter, “Extremely Online Architecture,” Theorizing the Web, New York, NY, April 13, 2019
Presenter, “A Brief Counter-History of Locative Media,” Magnum Foundation, New York, NY, April 16, 2018
Presenter, “The City Deep,” Radical Networks, New York, NY, October 19, 2017
Presenter, “Fair Use(lessness),” Unnecessary, Unwanted and Un-called for: A Workshop on Uselessness, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 29, 2017
Presenter, “Dispositioning Systems,” Theorizing the Web, New York, NY, April 7, 2017
HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
Presidential Fellowship, Rutgers University-Newark, 2022-present
Global Urban Studies Professional Development Grant, Rutgers University-Newark, 2023
Rutgers Graduate School-Newark Graduate Student Travel Award, Rutgers University-Newark, 2023
Departmental Honors, Parsons School of Design, 2017
Dean’s Scholarship, Parsons School of Design, 2015-2017