Graduate of Louisiana State University School of Architecture with a minor in Sociology. Currently pursuing a Master of City Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where my research explores the use of storytelling and design as participatory strategies for deconstructing opaque processes within the built environment. My approach integrates my academic and professional background in architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, and urban design, alongside my interdisciplinary interests in anthropology and the social sciences, to critically engage with contemporary urbanization practices. Although my work is primarily focused on the Southern United States, I remain attuned to the global networks and systems of exchange that shape urban environments within a broader globalist context.