Urban Planner and Policy Analyst
My work combines insights from urban planning, public policy and political science to examine the emergence and stabilization of urban planning and city management institutions that improve the equitable and sustainable provision of local public goods and basic services in cities and metropolitan areas in the Global South. Parallel to this I also conduct research on how community-based organizations, urban social movements and civil society organizations get their voices, ideas and knowledge incorporated into planning processes and outcomes. I have multiple articles in different stages of the publication process and have presented my research at both national and international conferences.
My professional experience includes consulting for the World Bank, working as a researcher at the Center for Sustainable Asian Cities (Singapore) and having held short-term positions at UN-Habitat (Laos) and the Asian Development Bank (Cambodia). I obtained my Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning at Cornell University and hold a Master in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School, National University of Singapore and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from the State University of New York at New Paltz.. I was a postdoctoral fellow at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania.
Medellin’s northern zones.