— is an artist and architectural designer. Product of Florida. Interested in social housing, alternative development, and crafty landscapes. Project Manager at STAT Architecture. Designing, reading and writing with James Wood (as-such) and Jack Rusk. Organizing for a just transition with Katie Lau, Geneva Strauss-Wise, Caitlin Watson, Ryan Ludwig, Elisa Iturbe, Martin Weiner, Sean Flynn, and Joshua Barnett through The Architecture Lobby's GND Working Group.

Education

           
Yale School of Architecture
M. Arch I, 2019-2022
Selected courses:
Art + Research Center at the Institute of Contemporary Art
Miami, FL, 2018
Selected courses:
  • The Agency of Architecture (Germane Barnes)
  • Subjectivity and the Incomputable (Antonia Majaca)
  • The Abuse of Life: Micropolitical Matrix of the Colonial-Capitalistic Regime (Suely Rolnik)
  • Underlying (Rozalinda Borcila)
  • Climate, Capitalism, & Planetary Justice (Jason W. Moore)
  • Black in Time: Space, Place and Belonging in the Black and African Diasporas (Michelle Wright)
Washington University in St. Louis
BFA Painting, B. Des Architecture, 2012-2017
Selected courses:
  • Photography: Constellations, Sequences, Series (Heather Bennett)
  • Sculpture (Arny Nadler)
  • Collage: History and Practice in Contemporary Art (Michael Byron)
  • The Book as Object and Artifact (Buzz Spector)

Writing & Commentary

Visual Contributions          

  • Images for "After the Flood: Regenerative Urbanism in North St Louis," Washington University, 2018
  • Reconstructions of Joseph Plecnik for "La otra arquitectura moderna" by David Rivera, 2017
  • Images for "Interview with Jim James" by Amelia Farley, Drippy Mag, 2015

Teaching & Critical Practice

Teaching Positions

Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT
      
  • Teaching Fellow, Architectural Design 4 (Anthony Acciavatti), 2022
  • Teaching Assistant, The City and Carbon Modernity (Elisa Iturbe), 2021
  • Teaching Fellow, Foundations (Nikole Bouchard), 2021

Guest Critic

  • Core II Studio (Grace Alli), Columbia University GSAPP, 2024
  • Climate Policy (Ryan Ludwig & Caitlin Watson), Roger Williams University, 2023
  • Carbon Form, Architecture and the Climate Crisis (Elisa Iturbe), Cooper Union, 2023
  • Design VI, The Wall (Sydney Maubert), Cornell APP, 2023
  • Alt Dev (Peggy Deamer and Nicholas McDermott), Yale School of Architecture, 2022
  • Design III (Sydney Maubert), Cornell APP, 2022

Hosted Talks

  • "Who Owns Social Housing?" (2024)        
    The Architecture Lobby GND Working Group, Citygroup        
    With Benjamin Holtzman (Historian, author of The Long Crisis)
    Ernst Pierre (CLT Coordinator at East New York CLT)  
    Arielle Hersh (Director of Policy & New Projects at UHAB)    
  • "Organizing for Green Social Housing" (2024)        
    The Architecture Lobby GND Working Group, Citygroup        
    With Wally Mazon (NYCC) and Andrew Daley (AWU)
  • "Labor or Love:" (2020)
    The Architecture Lobby Yale Chapter, Zoom  
    With Peggy Deamer and Sarah Jaffe, moderated with Jack Rusk

Invited Talks

  • "Preservation Protects, Dialogue, Not Monalogue" (2023)        
    Citygroup, New York        
    With Philip Poon    
  • "Building Coalitions for a Just Transition with ABI Collective" (2023)  
    The Cooper Union, New York        
    With Joshua Barnett, Chris Dols, Valerie Lechene, Meera Zassenhaus, and Zach Zill  
  • "A Just Transition for Architecture" (2022)   
    University of Utah, Zoom        
    With Joshua Barnett, Niels Hoyle-Dodson, Elisa Iturbe, Ryan Ludwig, Caitlin Watson, and Martin Weiner    
  • "A Just Transition for Architecture" (2022)   
    The Cooper Union, New York        
    With Joshua Barnett, Kevin Bogle, Elisa Iturbe, Ryan Ludwig, Caitlin Watson, and Martin Weiner    

Professional Experience

            
    Project Manager, STAT Architecture, New York, NY
    2022-Present
                   
    Researcher, Outside Development, Brooklyn, NY
    2022

    Urban Initiative Research Assistant, The Environmental Project
    Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, 2022
       
    Designer, Independent Practice
    St. Louis, MO, 2015-2020

Residencies & Fellowships

 
  • Artist in Residence, MATDOT, Bangkok, Thailand, 2025
  • Visiting Artist/Scholar, American Academy in Rome, 2024
  • James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis, 2023
  • Jeffrey Frank Wacks Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis, 2017
  • INTBAU European Summer School in Classical Architecture, Sweden, 2016
  • Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, 2015

Honors

 
  • H. I. Feldman Nominee, Yale School of Architecture, 2021
  • Lord Norman R. Foster Scholarship, Yale School of Architecture, 2019
  • Future Living Space NOVA Design Award, TOP 25, 2018
  • Eda L. & Clarence C. Cushing Memorial Prize in Painting, Washington University in St. Louis, 2016
  • David & Shirley Sykes Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis, 2015
  • Hazel H. Huntsinger Memorial Prize in Painting, Washington University in St. Louis, 2015
  • Leslie J. Laskey Design Challenge Book Award, Washington University in St. Louis, 2014
  • Joseph Murphy Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis, 2012

Exhibitions and Curatorial 

 
  • Zoning Holiday Design Party, Pacific Mews, with Common Bond, SPUR, San Francisco, CA, 2022
  • Fringe, Retrospecta, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, 2020
  • Space, Time, Form, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, 2019
  • The Dollhouse, Water Mill, NY, 2018
  • COME HERE, Traveling exhibit (Miami, FL, New York, NY, Chicago, IL), 2018
  • Ugly Feelings, 4420 Manchester Avenue, St. Louis, MO, 2016
  • E(r)go, 2720 Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO, 2016
  • Everything Must Go, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 2016
  • Message Send Failure, TechArtista, St. Louis, MO, 2016
  • Transcending the Spectrum, Westminster Press, St. Louis, MO, 2016
  • Find Us Next Year, Ely Walker Lofts, St. Louis, MO, 2015
  • Year End Show, SRISA, Florence, Italy, 2015
  • Blow-Up, Weitman Gallery, Sam Fox School of Design, St. Louis, MO, 2015
  • Pulse, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 2014
  • Technology + Tectonic, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2014
  • Winter Show, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2014

Mentions

 

Affiliations

 
  • AIA New York Housing Committee, New York, NY, 2024-Present
  • Rising Leaders Network, New York Housing Conference, New York, NY, 2023-2024
  • Women in Housing and Finance, New York, NY, 2022-Present
  • The Architecture Lobby, Green New Deal Working Group, 2020-Present
  • The Alternative Building Industry (ABI) Collective, New York, NY, 2022-2024