EDUCATION

CUNY School of Labor, Economic Democracy Fellow, Advanced Certificate in Workplace Democracy and Community Ownership
New York, NY

2022-2024

Pratt Institute MSc, City & Regional Planning

Brooklyn, NY

Thesis: This Space is Not Ours: Understanding Ingersoll Residents’ Struggles to Exert Control Over Public Space

2015-2017

Suffolk University Madrid
Study Abroad Program
2013

Suffolk University, B.A., Marketing Innovation & New Media, Information Systems and Operations Management & E-Commerce Minor
2011-2015

RESEARCH AREAS

political economy - dialectical materialism - marxism - black geographies - gentrification and displacement - black urbanism, decommodification and decommodified housing - housing financialization - public housing - community land trusts - housing cooperatives - shared equity - social housing - degrowth - land management - land adapatation

CONFERENCES & SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Hunter College, Urban Studies, Guest Lecturer:

Research Methods and Policy Analysis Class
March 2022

Design Your City: Issues of Race & Equity in the Built Environment 

January 2021

BlackSpace free [ space ]: (re)learning + remembering abolition
December 2021

Hindsight Conference 2020, De-Centering Whiteness in Planning: Applying Racial Equity Tools

November 2020