Housing policy and wealth-building
Affordable housing, LIHTC, inclusionary housing, low-income homeownership, nonprofit intermediaries, and community development finance.
Urban planning · housing · mobility · climate adaptation
Advancing equitable urban futures through research, teaching, and community-engaged planning.
I am an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Community Development at the University of Massachusetts Boston. My work examines how housing systems, transportation access, climate risk, public finance, and community institutions shape life chances for marginalized communities.
This site is a living portfolio for my research, professional practice, public-facing reports, teaching, studio projects, and student collaborations.
20+years of planning experience
5+peer-reviewed articles
$270k+recent and ongoing grants
12+courses prepared and taught
Research + teaching + practice
Community-engaged scholarship with public-facing outputs.
Across research, teaching, and service, I connect spatial analysis, institutional research, planning studios, fieldwork, and community partnerships. Students participate as co-investigators, public agencies and nonprofits help shape research questions, and outputs include journal articles, planning reports, maps, presentations, and applied decision-support tools.
Meet the research communityResearch portfolio
My work is organized around interrelated questions of housing stability, transportation access, climate adaptation, community development, and spatial justice.
Transportation equity and access
Mobility systems for older adults, people with disabilities, transportation-disadvantaged riders, and nonprofit transportation providers.
Regional adaptation and spatial capacity loss
Flood risk, managed retreat, spatial capacity loss, community vulnerability, and regional governance under climate and infrastructure stress.