Bella Purdy is an AICP certified climate resiliency specialist, urban planner, and designer. Bella has demonstrated experience developing resiliency plans, adaptation projects, and regulatory recommendations for municipalities and public agencies preparing for climate change. She is passionate about working directly with communities to provide equitable designs and just outcomes. She is currently on the board of directors of the non-profit organization, Resilient Virginia. Bella holds a Masters in City Planning from MIT where she was a Priscilla King Grey Public Service Fellow, Norman B. Leventhal Fellow, and the recipient of the William Emerson Travel Grant. She has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with a minor in Global Sustainability from the University of Virginia. As a fellow at the City of Boston Environment Department, Bella developed resiliency design guidelines for protecting historic buildings from flood and heat impacts. Bella also has three years of experience as an architectural designer at the research and sustainability-focused architecture and planning firm, KieranTimberlake.
Listed skills include Revit, Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop, Rhino 3D, and 9 others.