Since receiving my Bachelor of Architecture from Louisiana State University in 2004, I have held diverse professional affiliations in New York, Zurich, and London spanning high-profile residential, mixed-use commercial and cultural projects for Studio Daniel Libeskind, Foster + Partners, and Heatherwick Studio. Immediately following a parallel detour to study conceptual product design and interaction at the Design Academy Eindhoven's Postgraduate Social Design department (formerly Man + Humanity), in 2008 I enrolled in the Bartlett's Buildiing and Urban Design in Development masters course. Granted an MSc with Distinction in 2009, I have since remained on the Bartlett DPU faculty where, through my role as University Teaching Fellow and Studio Tutor, I have led and facilitated multiple field research trips and projects (Mumbai, Istanbul, Brescia, Bangkok) investigating the re-development and upgrading of informal settlements, alternative housing strategies, and complex urban design interventions as well collaborated on various consultancy work including the SOLIDAR Humanitarian Cooperation Network and Oxfam. In 2011 I helped launch the DPU summerLab workshop series, piloted in Rome. I am also co-editor of BUDDlab, the inhouse publication for the MSc Building and Urban Design Course.

My research and interests revolve around the complex processes of contested urbanism, Critical Regionalism methodology, the outsider urban leanings of and Situationists and Utopie Group, oppositions to capitalist modernism and unbalanced neo-liberal development, the politics of space/the space of politics, the value of interdisciplinary collaboration, a repositioning of urban practitioner, the multiplicity of design in design processes, and an overall championing of a critical design practice.