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  2. Yin Kong

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    Yin Kong 邝海音 is a community-based designer and curator living and working in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Think!Chinatown is the culmination of her work in urban design, museum, culinary & cultural instruction, and community engagement. Previously an Urban Curator of the Dashilar Project, she consulted a municipal agency of Beijing on urban revitalization strategies in the city’s historic hutong core. She also spent time teaching at the Black Sesame Kitchen in Beijing and onboard Semester at Sea. She loves sharing Thomas Jefferson facts which she picked up at her time working at Monticello. Yin holds a Masters of Architecture, Urban Design from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London and a Bachelors of Arts, Urban Studies from Columbia University. Her work has been presented at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2016 and the Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture 2007 & 2009. In 2019 she was a fellow of both the New Museum’s IdeasCity and Coro’s Neighborhood Leadership programs. In 2020 she was a David Prize finalist.

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  5. The Working Assembly

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    The Working Assembly is a branding and creative agency helping companies grow, shift, and evolve.

    We get excited about powerful ideas that have the ability to shape brands.

    We provide boutique quality at scale with an integrated approach, focusing on end-to-end brand building inclusive of strategy, verbal and visual identity, content and creative communications.
    Our team is successfully challenging the traditional rift between advertising and design by bringing siloed disciplines like branding, campaigns and digital into a holistic brand presence.

    We specialize in key inflection points—from helping companies take a thoughtful next step, to a total strategic reinvention.

    — theworkingassembly.com

  6. Barretto Consulting

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    Barretto Consulting provides organizational and fundraising strategies that help nonprofits build their capacity, ensure their sustainability, and maximize their impact.

    Joseph J. Barretto is a management strategist with 20 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. His expertise includes organizational and fundraising strategy and leadership development, with a focus on building the capacity and ensuring the sustainability of organizations to maximize their impact.

    Joseph’s focus on providing nonprofit boards and leaders with the management tools and strategies necessary to strengthen their organizations was honed by his experiences in various management roles, including Deputy Director at the New York City Anti-Violence Project, Deputy Executive Director at Hudson Guild, and Executive Director at The DOME Project, an education-focused nonprofit serving at-risk youth. In addition to consulting assignments in organizational assessments and strategic planning initiatives, fundraising campaigns, and board development, Joseph facilitates leadership and fundraising workshops and trainings to nonprofit managers and board members.

    Joseph is an Affiliate Consultant at Community Resource Exchange and sits on the Selection Committee for The New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Filipino American Human Services, Inc., and serves on the National Advisory Board for Public Service at Harvard College and the Advisory Board of Trestle Gallery.

    Joseph holds a BA from Harvard College and an MPA degree from Columbia University’s School of International & Public Affairs.

    — baretto.nyc

  7. Gehl

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    Gehl is an urban research and design consulting firm based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was founded in 2000 by Professor Jan Gehl and urban designer Helle Søholt as a continuation of Gehl’s research within the area over the past four decades. The firm specialises in improving the quality of urban life by re-orienting city design towards the pedestrian and cyclist.

  9. di Domenico + Partners

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    di Domenico + Partners, LLP, was established in 1981 as an interdisciplinary studio to provide services in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. John di Domenico and Andrew Berger, the studio’s partners, bring leadership and are personally involved in each of the studio’s projects. Together with the Associate Principals, Senior Associates and Associates, a collaboration of all studio members approach design as a learning process through the application of sustainable design, innovative technology and an exploration of materials applied with an attention to craftsmanship.

  10. Leroy Street Studio

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    Leroy Street Studio is an award winning architectural studio inspired by innovation in design, the craft of construction, and a collaborative approach that places our clients’ needs at the center of the design process.

    Leroy Street Studio is a dynamic and collaborative architecture studio: we value experiences over objects, open dialogue over ego, authenticity over artifice.

    We define architecture as a process of restless discovery and collaboration. We define success as a carefully designed space that can be truly felt, lived, and experienced.

    We are a communal practice—from the artists and makers who surround us every day as colleagues and collaborators, to the clients and communities that we design our work with and for.

    — leroystreetstudio.com