Chisholm Town Urban Omnibus Summer 2025

Essay surveying New York City’s growing landscape of parks, buildings, and places honoring Shirley Chisholm.

It Took 30 Years to Open Shirley Chisholm State Park. Here’s How It Happened Next City Summer 2025

An op-ed tracing the decades-long fight to transform a Brooklyn landfill into a state park honoring Shirley Chisholm.

Main Character Energy Urban Omnibus Spring 2025

An ode to the subway cars with orange seats and conversational seating, now being phased out by the MTA.

Romantic Urbanism mini-series Urban Omnibus Winter 2025

Writer and guest editor of an essay series on romantic urbanism—the tangible and sometimes intangible ways cities foster love and connection.

Reflecting on the New York Commune at 20 Years Metropolitics Spring 2024

Book review Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072, a speculative fiction oral history of New York City.

A Walk through Flushing Asian American Writers’ Workshop Winter 2024

Visual essay exploring the layered histories of Black and Asian communities in Flushing, Queens.

Romantic Urbanism Syllabus Project Summer 2023

A syllabus-essay exploring how urban design can cultivate romantic, familial, and platonic love through the built environment, and the important design lessons in classic rom-coms.

God’s Garage Urban Omnibus Summer 2023

Essay and art project exploring the provenance of 99 cents stores in the United States and the unique dollar store ecosystem in New York City.

A Path to Racial Equity: Representation and Youth Planning Education Routledge Spring 2023

Chapter highlighting the lack of racial diversity in the urban planning profession, the barriers to recruitment, and the role that youth engagement can play in increasing exposure to building environment professions.

Rewriting the Urban Planning Canon Planning Magazine Winter 2020

Op-ed highlighting the lack of BIPOC urbanists feature in planning curriculums and the need to expand the urban planning canon.