“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
I am on the faculty of the Urban and Regional Planning program at Georgetown University, where I was recognized in 2017 as Instructor of the Year. I regularly teach the Urban Design Studio and Ethics and Planning Practice, and have also taught seminars on urban revitalization and creative cities.
The Design Futures Public Interest Design (PID) Student Leadership Forum is a five-day, interdisciplinary forum bringing together student leaders from across the country with practitioner- and university-faculty who represent some of the most important thought leadership in this emerging sub-discipline. I have been a part of the practitioner-faculty and led student workshops for at the Forum at:
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA | 2014
Kansas State University, Lawrence, KS | 2015
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA | 2016
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN | 2017
University of Detroit-Mercy, Detroit, MI | 2018
I have served as a guest lecturer and design critic at:
Catholic University School of Architecture, Washington, DC
University of Maryland College of Landscape Architecture, Greenbelt, MD
George Washington University, Department of Geography, Washington, DC
University of Texas School of Architecture, Austin, TX