About me
My interests and background lie in the merging of environmental engineering, ecology, conservation, landscape architecture, and urban design. I’m intrigued by problems the human environment causes for the natural environment: how we can effectively manage our resources, what environmental changes occur due to development, where do we get our food and water from, and what happens to our waste. Most of all, how can we effectively design and renovate our cities and suburbs to deal with environmental problems, create economic development, and provide a just and equal place to live.
education
I am an MIT alumna of 2017 with a Master of City Planning and a Certificate in Urban Design. I also hold a B.S. degree from MIT in civil & environmental engineering, graduating in 2011. My research focused on merging environmental engineering, landscape urbanism and urban design through working at the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism in partnership with the Nepf Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab on regionally scaled green infrastructure projects using constructed wetlands. My academic focus was on climate change resilience and coastal management using landscape urbanism strategies. My thesis was on urban design guidelines to create sustainable, regenerative communities, particularly focused on the Solidarity Economy.
work
Right after my undergraduate I worked as a Sustainable Infrastructure Engineer at Buro Happold designing sustainable infrastructure networks and strategies for new urban developments and then as a Field Engineer at Blue Planet Environmental focused on urban agriculture, water remediation, aquaculture, and hydroponics. After graduate school, I worked at Brown & Caldwell as a senior environmental engineer doing water resources management in California, as well as green infrastructure. My most recent employment has been at San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) in their Adapting to Rising Tides group doing sea level rise research on how the Bay Area will be affected by rising seas and storms. I also spent time doing shoreline permitting, as BCDC regulates development in the Bay and around its shoreline.
skills
I am knowledgeable in green infrastructure; sustainable technologies for water, sewerage, waste, energy, and stormwater; environmental problems and solutions; watershed and general water issues and management; project management; construction documents and specifications; and sustainable urban design. I think the future survival of cities and suburbs lies in thinking of them as an ecosystem or an organism with its own inputs, outputs, and networks of communication, distribution, and waste collection.
My specialties are in coastal resilience to sea level rise, sustainability engineering, water resource management and urban design.
education
I am an MIT alumna of 2017 with a Master of City Planning and a Certificate in Urban Design. I also hold a B.S. degree from MIT in civil & environmental engineering, graduating in 2011. My research focused on merging environmental engineering, landscape urbanism and urban design through working at the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism in partnership with the Nepf Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab on regionally scaled green infrastructure projects using constructed wetlands. My academic focus was on climate change resilience and coastal management using landscape urbanism strategies. My thesis was on urban design guidelines to create sustainable, regenerative communities, particularly focused on the Solidarity Economy.
work
Right after my undergraduate I worked as a Sustainable Infrastructure Engineer at Buro Happold designing sustainable infrastructure networks and strategies for new urban developments and then as a Field Engineer at Blue Planet Environmental focused on urban agriculture, water remediation, aquaculture, and hydroponics. After graduate school, I worked at Brown & Caldwell as a senior environmental engineer doing water resources management in California, as well as green infrastructure. My most recent employment has been at San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) in their Adapting to Rising Tides group doing sea level rise research on how the Bay Area will be affected by rising seas and storms. I also spent time doing shoreline permitting, as BCDC regulates development in the Bay and around its shoreline.
skills
I am knowledgeable in green infrastructure; sustainable technologies for water, sewerage, waste, energy, and stormwater; environmental problems and solutions; watershed and general water issues and management; project management; construction documents and specifications; and sustainable urban design. I think the future survival of cities and suburbs lies in thinking of them as an ecosystem or an organism with its own inputs, outputs, and networks of communication, distribution, and waste collection.
My specialties are in coastal resilience to sea level rise, sustainability engineering, water resource management and urban design.
