Urban planner · New York

I use spatial analysis and fieldwork to show where land-use pressure is building and what to do about it.

I'm an urban planner with an M.S. in Urban Planning from Columbia GSAPP. As an ANHD/Morgan Stanley Community Development Graduate Fellow at Evergreen Exchange, I studied industrial displacement pressure in the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Industrial Business Zone and wrote two reports on it.

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251industrial businesses reconciled from Evergreen's records
445industrial-compatible lots scored for displacement pressure
16indicators across four equally weighted categories
33statistically significant hot-spot blocks identified

Featured work

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District needs assessment · Evergreen Exchange · 2026

Twenty Years On

Who still runs industrial businesses in the Greenpoint-Williamsburg IBZ, what's making it harder, and what the city could do about it.

Record reconciliationBusiness surveysFocus groupPolicy
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Capstone · Columbia GSAPP · 2026

Where the Zone Ends

A parcel-level screening framework that flags displacement pressure on 445 industrial-compatible lots and tests where it clusters.

GISGetis-Ord Gi*Composite indexingLand use
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What I do

Record reconciliation

I reconciled Evergreen's business records into 251 distinct industrial businesses, separating 53 confirmed operators and 74 confirmed losses from records that couldn't be verified.

Spatial analysis

I scored 445 industrial-compatible lots on 16 indicators and tested block scores with Getis-Ord Gi*, which identified 33 hot-spot blocks spanning the 90%, 95% and 99% confidence levels.

Fieldwork

I designed and administered my own business survey and facilitated a March 2026 focus group with industrial business operators, then checked what operators told me against block-level evidence.

Background

Experience
  • Sept 2025 – June 2026
    Community Development Graduate Fellow
    ANHD/Morgan Stanley · Evergreen Exchange
  • 2021 – 2024
    Project Manager
    British Architectural Library Trust
  • 2023 – 2024
    Media Marketing Associate
    The Architect's Newspaper
  • 2020 – 2023
    Project Manager
    Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation
Education
  • 2024 – 2026
    M.S. Urban Planning
    Columbia University GSAPP
  • 2016 – 2020
    B.A. Urban Design and Architectural Studies
    New York University
Awards
Honor Award for Excellence in Urban Planning · GSAPPPeer to Peer Award · GSAPPFaculty's Choice Award · NYU
Languages
EnglishMandarin

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Open to roles in planning, land use, economic development and real estate advisory.

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