People

A project to upcycle vacant lots, transforming them into vibrant farmland.

Youth Design Center is a youth creative agency and innovation hub providing a gateway for young people to learn marketable hard skills in STEAM, access post-secondary education, achieve economic...

Shigeto Akiyama is a graphic designer and creative director who has worked on brand identities, books, magazines, websites, and exhibitions, for cultural institutions, publishers, corporations, and higher education clients...

Marilys R. Nepomechie, FAIA, is an architect, professor of architecture, and associate dean for strategic initiatives at the Florida International University College of Communication, Architecture + the Arts.

Hilary Sample is an architect, co-founder of MOS, and professor of architecture at Columbia University GSAPP.

Rosa Chang is a community advocate who is deeply engaged in issues of climate change, education, community support, the deep importance of place and how our built environment builds...

Equality for Flatbush (E4F) is a Black Lives Matter organization that has fought gentrification, displacement and police violence in Brooklyn, NY since 2013. They have only two goals: to...

The NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) helps unlock economic potential and create economic security for all New Yorkers by connecting New Yorkers to good jobs, creating stronger...

 Michael is the founder and CEO of Bednark Studio Inc. 

Christopher, is the fourth generation in his family to attend the University of Florida, completing his Bachelors of Design with a concentration in architecture.

Mark has led many of Jaklitsch / Gardner’s design initiatives and works to best understand the role of design as a social practice.

For over a quarter century, MNLA has worked to reinvigorate, heal and mediate places that strengthen and empower communities.  We utilize the design process to engage with governing bodies,...

Yalda Keramati is an architect and educator based in Brooklyn, New York, with experience working in Milan, Venice, and New York City.

Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. or VHB is a multidisciplinary American civil engineering consulting and design firm headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts with offices throughout the country. The company was founded...

R. May Lee is the President of the Olin College of Engineering.

Brendan joins the farm team a varied career in public school garden education, market farming, and community gardening. He has been farming since 2010. He holds a Bachelor of...

Chris Jordan explores the medium of light, movement, and time through the use of technology. His installations have appeared at the Moma, The New Museum, The Whitney, The Museum...

SOFTlab is a design studio based in New York City. The studio combines a research-based design practice with an interest in how technology, craft, and materials come together in...

Founded in 1978, Loisaida, Inc. is a Puerto Rican multidisciplinary community development organization located in the Lower East Side area of Lower Manhattan. We stand firm on our original...

Denzil Gallagher is the US Managing Director and Partner at Buro Happold, specializing in integrated environmental solutions.

Restoration relentlessly pursues strategies to close gaps in family and community wealth to ensure all families in Central Brooklyn are prosperous and healthy.

The Bender Family Foundation was established in 1997 and works to foster, preserve and fund the arts, culture, education, history and environment of New York State’s Capital Region. 

Charlotte Wessell is a strategic advancement, governance, and communications professional.

The Bed-Stuy Gateway BID, located in central Brooklyn, is one of Brooklyn’s most prominent commercial and cultural focal points. We represent a growing, eclectic community of entrepreneurs, nonprofit and...

Toni L. Griffin is the founder of urbanAC, based in New York, specializing in leading complex, trans-disciplinary planning and urban design projects for multi-sector clients in cities with long...

The Kresge Foundation is a $3.5 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing in arts and culture, education, environment,...

Paula Vilaplana de Miguel is a curator, designer, and scholar based in New York.

Happy City is an urban planning and design consultancy. We use the science of wellbeing to create healthier, happier and more inclusive communities.

ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles] develops solicited and unsolicited design and research in architecture, urbanism, and landscape design. ZUS contributes to the changing urban landscape through its dedication to architecture’s...