Maggie is a student at City-as-School.

Maggie is a student at City-as-School.

Maggie Acevedo has worked on The Water Underground

Jason Anderson received his M.Arch from Princeton University’s School of Architecture. He recently won a Luce Scholarship to spend a year in Beijin…

Jason Anderson received his M.Arch from Princeton University’s School of Architecture. He recently won a Luce Scholarship to spend a year in Beijing, China, working on urban architecture projects and teaching.

Jason Anderson has worked on Building Codes, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, The Programmable City, Governors Island Points of Interest, Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!, Code City

Ruben is a student at City-as-School.

Ruben is a student at City-as-School.

Ruben Arroyo has worked on The Water Underground

Danny Aviles has worked on The Water Underground

Victor Bach has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Francisca Benitez (born Chile 1974) is a New York based artist and retired architect. She has been involved with CUP since 2001, when her first vid…

Francisca Benitez (born Chile 1974) is a New York based artist and retired architect. She has been involved with CUP since 2001, when her first video was featured in Building Codes: The Programmable City at Storefront for Art and Architecture. Since then, she has shown her work at Centre de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona in Spain, Exit Art in New York, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo in Santiago, Chile, and Futura in Prague, to name a few. Francisca studied architecture at the University of Chile, art at the MFA program at Hunter College in New York (currently) and at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts in Paris. She has collaborated with countless artists, organizations and journals including Quaderns (Spain), ARQ (Chile), the International Center for Urban Ecology (ICUE, Detroit), and the New York Housing Authority. She currently teaches in our program, in NYCHA community centers and sings with the band Nutria.

Francisca Benitez has worked on The Programmable City, Building Codes, The Subsidized Landscape, Schoolyard Visions, Green Information Center

AJ Blandford is a bi-coastal designer/builder for both the imaginary and real worlds. In addition to her work with CUP she also collaborates regula…

AJ Blandford is a bi-coastal designer/builder for both the imaginary and real worlds. In addition to her work with CUP she also collaborates regularly with the dance/performance duo RobbinsChilds.

AJ Blandford has worked on The City without a Ghetto, The Center for Critical Skills, The Subsidized Landscape

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Jonathan is a New York born, New York-based artist and educator. His work spans the disciplines of painting, film, and community artworks made in …

Jonathan is a New York born, New York-based artist and educator. His work spans the disciplines of painting, film, and community artworks made in collaboration with youth. He has created numerous art projects in both the US and Venezuela working in collaboration with schools, non-profit organizations, and other artists. He received his BFA in Painting and Art History from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University.

Jonathan Bogarín has worked on Bodega Down Bronx

Betty "Coqui" Brassell has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Joshua Breitbart is the Communications Director for Media Tank in Philadelphia. He has been an organizer of grassroots media since co-founding Broo…

Joshua Breitbart is the Communications Director for Media Tank in Philadelphia. He has been an organizer of grassroots media since co-founding Brooklyn’s Rooftop Films in 1998. He was the consulting editor for Clamor Magazine from 2001 to 2005 and has worked with many local Indymedia Centers. Josh also serves on the board of directors of Allied Media Projects and the Lela Breitbart Memorial Fund, which supports young women’s activism.

Joshua Breitbart has worked on The Internet is Serious Business

Mark Brenner is the director of Labor Notes, a 29 year old project dedicated to putting the movement back in the labor movement. In addition to wri…

Mark Brenner is the director of Labor Notes, a 29 year old project dedicated to putting the movement back in the labor movement. In addition to writing for Labor Notes magazine his work has also appeared in the Washington Spectator, Counterpunch, Metro Times, Black Commentator, Z Magazine, and Monthly Review. Before joining the staff at Labor Notes, Mark spent a decade working with living wage campaigns around the country, and is co-author of the forthcoming book A Measure of Fairness about the economic impact of living wage ordinances. He is also a staff economist with the Real Cost of Prisons Project, specializing in the social and economic costs of the War on Drugs.

Mark Brenner has worked on The Cargo Chain

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Stella Bugbee is a creative director specializing in identity and publication design. Studio projects might range from logos, web sites and books, ...

Stella Bugbee is a creative director specializing in identity and publication design. Studio projects might range from logos, web sites and books, to self-published projects and collaborations. In addition to running her studio she teaches Advanced Publication Design to seniors in the degree program at Parsons School of Design. During 2002-2004 she served on the Executive Board of the New York AIGA.
Prior to founding a company of her own in the summer of 2005, Stella founded Honest with Cary Murnion and Jon Milott while the three were attending Parsons School of Design. After five years at Honest, she left to work for The New York Times Magazine and then went on to be a Design Director with the Brand Integration Group at Ogilvy and Mather.
Stella’s work has been featured in Print, Res, How, Step, Black Book, Nylon and Eye, and she was featured in the book “Fresh Dialogue 3,” in addition to being one of the participants in the yearly event of the same name.

Stella Bugbee has worked on Building Codes, Important Housing Rights, The Programmable City, Code City

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Lisa Burriss began with GOLES as the PHROLES organizer in June 2005. She has been a life-long resident of Public Housing and began working with PH…

Lisa Burriss began with GOLES as the PHROLES organizer in June 2005. She has been a life-long resident of Public Housing and began working with PHROLES as a steering committee member, eventually becoming the co-chair of the committee. Lisa graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from New Paltz College in 2003 and since has dedicated herself to creating social change. After college, Lisa worked teaching independent living skills to aging out foster children. She is a member of the United Nations Youth Council and co-founded Cultural Unity an organization in New Paltz dedicated to increasing cultural awareness and creating unity through education. Her organizing experience, incredible passion to create change, and first hand knowledge of public housing issues have prepared her for the challenges of organizing around public housing issues. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Lisa Burris has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

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Michael Cataldi was born in 1982 in Philadelphia, received a Bachelors in fine arts degree at the Maryland Institute College of art in 2004. After …

Michael Cataldi was born in 1982 in Philadelphia, received a Bachelors in fine arts degree at the Maryland Institute College of art in 2004. After moving to New York Michael Cataldi attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Artist in the Marketplace programs in 2005. His work has been shown at Reobling Hall, ABC No Rio, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Current Space in Baltimore, and Curators Office in Washington DC.

Michael Cataldi has worked on The Nomadic Classroom, Alternative Urban Perspectives

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Nicole Clare has worked on Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!

Sarah Cole has worked on The Subsidized Landscape

Bryan Collins has worked on Code City

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Zoë Coombes is from Toronto. Her and her partner Francisco David Boira, are now 100% commited to the creation of software-driven design at the…

Zoë Coombes is from Toronto. Her and her partner Francisco David Boira, are now 100% commited to the creation of software-driven design at their Brooklyn-based business, Commonwealth.

Zoe Coombes has worked on The City without a Ghetto, The Subsidized Landscape, Garbage Problems

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Meghann Curtis is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs where she studies, among o…

Meghann Curtis is a graduate student at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs where she studies, among other things, urban development in developing nations. After graduating from Vassar College, Meghann worked as an urban planner for the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development in their divisions of housing finance and large scale development. She later went on to serve as Policy Director for New York City Council Member David Yassky, where she was intimately involved in the redevelopment plan for the Greenpoint-Williamsburg waterfront. Just before returning to school Meghann worked as a journalist for the South African Broadcast Corporation in Johannesburg, South Africa. She plans to return overseas this summer to work for the United States Agency for International Development in Indonesia with their Aceh Reconstruction and Recovery Unit.

Meghann Curtis has worked on The Subsidized Landscape

Daniel D’Oca is an urban planner. In 2002, he received a Master in Urban Planning degree from the Harvard Design School. He is a principal of Inter…

Daniel D’Oca is an urban planner. In 2002, he received a Master in Urban Planning degree from the Harvard Design School. He is a principal of Interboro. In the past, he has worked as a planner for the New York City Department of City Planning, sLab Architects, and a number of other firms. He has organized and participated in several lectures and exhibitions, including “Tourisms: Conversations About the Consumption of Place,” a Harvard symposium that featured several prominent architects, planners, and academics. He is co-founder and curator of “Engaging the City: the Accompanied Library Lectures on Urbanism.” He has a BA in philosophy from Bard College.

Daniel D'Oca has worked on Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism

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Sarah Dadush is a fellow at the New York University Law School Institute for International Law and Justice working primarily on administering the I…

Sarah Dadush is a fellow at the New York University Law School Institute for International Law and Justice working primarily on administering the Institute’s Financing Development program led by Professor Kevin Davis. Her research focuses on the regulation of immigrant remittances and innovations for development financing.
Prior to joining the IILJ, she worked at the law firm Allen & Overy for three and a half years, in the banking and litigation groups, where she had the opportunity to work on project financings and investor-state arbitration. She obtained her JD and LLM degrees in 2004 from Duke Law School. While at Duke, she led the International Law Society and founded the Law School’s first International Development Fellowship, which has helped fund student internships and research projects in developing countries.
Prior to law school, Sarah worked at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York on international criminal justice reform issues, including police, prison and court reform. She also worked at an NGO in Brazil, Viva Rio, helping to organize a campaign against the sale and use of small weapons lead by women who had lost loved ones to gun violence. She speaks French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

Enida Davis has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Leigh Davis is an artist residing in Montreal.

Leigh Davis is an artist residing in Montreal.

Leigh Davis has worked on The City without a Ghetto, Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street

Chris Dierks has worked on The Subsidized Landscape, Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!

As the Director of Planning & Development for the BAM Cultural District, Katie Dixon coordinates the design and construction of capital projects th…

As the Director of Planning & Development for the BAM Cultural District, Katie Dixon coordinates the design and construction of capital projects through the formation of partnerships with area stakeholders in both the private and public sectors. She works with the Mayor's Office, City agencies, developers and contractors to advance work on the Cultural District that will include new cultural venues, affordable housing, public open spaces and streetscape improvements. Katie regularly reports on the progress of these developments to the DBP Board of Directors, local elected officials and other community constituencies.
With over seven years of experience in New York City design and construction, Katie most recently worked with Weisz + Yoes Architecture on civic and public projects as well as private commercial and residential developments in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx. Katie holds a Bachelor's degree with Distinction in Architecture from Yale University and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University. She currently resides in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Helki Frantzen was born in Holland and grew up in NY, Wisconsin and Australia. She received both her BFA and MFA degrees from Bard College, where s…

Helki Frantzen was born in Holland and grew up in NY, Wisconsin and Australia. She received both her BFA and MFA degrees from Bard College, where she studied Sculpture. Currently, she lives in Brooklyn, where she works as a teacher and video artist.

Helki Frantzen has worked on The Internet is Serious Business

Mari Fujita is trained as an architect. She is currently researching cultural and design practice in settlement-formation in disaster areas. As a f…

Mari Fujita is trained as an architect. She is currently researching cultural and design practice in settlement-formation in disaster areas. As a founding member of SpaceAgency, Mari is also involved with projects that “make space for knowledge and discussion of architecture in the public realm”.

Mari Fujita has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

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Naoki Fujita has worked on Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story, The Water Underground

Christine joined the staff of CUP in 2009. Before that, she was Assistant Director of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio in Biloxi, Mississippi…

Christine joined the staff of CUP in 2009. Before that, she was Assistant Director of the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio in Biloxi, Mississippi, where she provided architectural design and community planning services to low-income communities recovering from Hurricane Katrina. She holds masters in architecture and urban planning from MIT and a bachelor in environmental studies from Brown University.

Judith Goldiner has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Kenneth Haller is an interaction designer, holding an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University and a B.A. in Political Scienc…

Kenneth Haller is an interaction designer, holding an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. He is interested in photography, communicating visually as well as creating ubiquitous computer interactions.

Ken Haller has worked on The Subsidized Landscape

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Joseph Heathcott is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies at The New School, where he holds appointments in Lang College and Parsons School of De…

Joseph Heathcott is an Associate Professor of Urban Studies at The New School, where he holds appointments in Lang College and Parsons School of Design. He is also the Senior Director of Civic Engagement Initiatives for Lang College. Prior to joining the New School, he was a member of the graduate faculty in American Studies and Urban Planning at Saint Louis University.
Dr. Heathcott received his Ph.D. at Indiana University where he studied architectural history with Henry Glassie, public history with John Bodnar and Dave Thelen, and comparative urbanism with Casey Nelson Blake. While at Indiana he held the institution's top doctoral research award, the John H. Edwards fellowship.
Dr. Heathcott's research and teaching interests are in American urban and architectural history, community planning and design, and historic preservation and the built environment. His book Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization, co-edited with Jefferson Cowie, appeared with Cornell Press in 2003. He has contributed articles and essays to a broad range of journals, magazines, books and encyclopediae. His article “Corridors of Flight, Zones of Renewal,” co-authored with Maire Murphy, won the Catherine Bauer Wurster Prize for best article on the history of city planning.
In addition to writing and teaching, Dr. Heathcott maintains an active public practice in exhibit design, historic preservation, and educational programming. His traveling exhibit “Vertical City” was most recently installed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Until recently he served on the Board of Directors of the Landmarks Association of St. Louis, where he advocated for the preservation of buildings from the recent past and for new approaches to infill housing design. He currently serves on the national Board of Directors of the Urban History Association, and continues to devote time and expertise to community organizations and non-profit groups.
Dr. Heathcott has been invited to lecture in a variety of venues, including the Royal Library in Brussels, the Buell Center at Columbia University, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Roosevelt Studies Centre in The Netherlands, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Chicago Historical Society, the University of Paris, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University, and The George Washington University.
Dr. Heathcott has been awarded fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Brown University Center for the Humanities, the Erasmus Institute, and the Missouri Historical Society. He is completing a book on the infamous Pruitt-Igoe public housing project titled The Projects and the People.

Adriene Holder has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Wennie Huang is a painter, printmaker and performance / installation artist who has exhibited her work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chicago Cul…

Wennie Huang is a painter, printmaker and performance / installation artist who has exhibited her work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Chicago Cultural Center, Detroit Artist’s Market, Korean Cultural Center, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, International Print Center, Wave Hill, and Westchester Arts Exchange, as well as in group exhibitions in Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Argentina and Japan. She holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, and an MFA from the University of Michigan’s School of Art & Design. She has participated in residencies at Sculpture Space, Lower East Side Printshop, Dieu Donne Papermill, and the Ragdale Foundation, and she is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York Foundation for the Arts. She has recently been awarded a commission through Percent for Art for the creation of permanent public art at a new elementary/middle school in the Inwood neighborhood of upper Manhattan. Huang teaches at the 92nd St. Y., Pratt Institute, and The College of New Rochelle. Freedom & Incarceration is her first CUP project.

Wennie Huang has worked on Freedom and Incarceration

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Rayna Huber Erlich has worked on Entry Sequence

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Edwin is a map-specialist.

Edwin is a map-specialist.

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Renee Johnson lives in the Borough of Queens. She is self-employed. She takes care of children, which she has been doing for about nineteen years. ...

Renee Johnson lives in the Borough of Queens. She is self-employed. She takes care of children, which she has been doing for about nineteen years. Her interests include jazz, poetry, dancing, and hiking.

Renee Johnson has worked on Big up, Jamaica!

Sean has worked on The Water Underground

Sean has worked on The Water Underground

Sean Kelleher has worked on The Water Underground

Elizabeth Knafo has worked on Knoxville: Building Communities

André Knights is an internship coordinator at City-as-School High School, an alternative public school in Lower Manhattan.

André Knights is an internship coordinator at City-as-School High School, an alternative public school in Lower Manhattan.

André Knights has worked on Building Codes, Garbage Problems, Public Housing 101, The Internet is Serious Business

Prem Krishnamurthy is a principle of the graphic design studio Project Projects and teaches design at the University of Connecticut.

Prem Krishnamurthy is a principle of the graphic design studio Project Projects and teaches design at the University of Connecticut.

Prem Krishnamurthy has worked on Gautreaux v. Urban Renewal, The City without a Ghetto

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Adrian has worked on The Water Underground

Adrian has worked on The Water Underground

Adrian Lau has worked on The Water Underground

Beth has been engaged in the fields of architecture, politics, and development for several years in a several different iterations. She is curren…

Beth has been engaged in the fields of architecture, politics, and development for several years in a several different iterations. She is currently doing development for Urban Green Builders, a firm that develops environmentallly sustainable, urban in-fill projects in underserved areas. She not-so-secretly aspires to surround herself full-time with fresh-baked goods and culinary delights.

Beth Lieberman has worked on Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto

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Saby Malary has worked on The Connection between Abandoned Buildings and Homeless People

John Mangin is a member of the CUP staff, managing the Making Policy Public series and …

John Mangin is a member of the CUP staff, managing the Making Policy Public series and Envisioning Development Toolkits. He graduated from Yale Law School in 2008. He has a background in public policy and civil legal services, and has a small furniture-making business on the side.

John Mangin has worked on The Internet is Serious Business

Amanda was a CUP Teaching Artist in the spring of 2006.

Amanda was a CUP Teaching Artist in the spring of 2006.

Amanda Matles has worked on Chew On This

Christian Matthaeus is a Vice President in the Turnarounds and Restructuring Services Group of AlixPartners, a consulting firm. He has more than 8…

Christian Matthaeus is a Vice President in the Turnarounds and Restructuring Services Group of AlixPartners, a consulting firm. He has more than 8 years of operations and consulting experience. Prior to AlixPartners, Christian was the Director of Budget at New York Downtown Hospital (an affiliate of the New York Presbyterian System), where he was part of a team that successfully turned around a distressed mid-sized hospital in Lower Manhattan. Previously, he was a consultant for Strata Decision Technology, where he developed long-term financial forecasts for health care systems.
Christian earned a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from Columbia Business School, and a Bachelor's degree in mathematics and sociology from Pomona College.

Yates Mckee is a critic and Ph.D. student in the Department of Art History, Columbia University. His current project is entitled “Art and the Ends …

Yates Mckee is a critic and Ph.D. student in the Department of Art History, Columbia University. His current project is entitled “Art and the Ends of Environmentalism: From Biosphere to the Right to Survival.”

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Andrea Meller has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Garbage Problems, Public Housing 101, The Programmable City, The City without a Ghetto, The Subsidized Landscape

Suzanne Menghraj teaches writing in New York University’s Liberal Studies Program. Prior to joining NYU’s faculty, Suzanne taught writing at Columb…

Suzanne Menghraj teaches writing in New York University’s Liberal Studies Program. Prior to joining NYU’s faculty, Suzanne taught writing at Columbia University and served as director of its Writing Center, as well as assistant director of its Undergraduate Writing Program. She has also worked for the Vera Institute of Justice’s national consulting division, where her research and writing focused on prison-based and reentry programs for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated parents. During her free time, Suzanne is a liaison for Faculty In and Of the City, an experiential learning program that serves NYU students who live in the outer boroughs; she also conducts writing seminars for program directors at the Vera Institute and for artists in residence at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. In fall 2008, Suzanne received an NYU faculty grant to support her work on a series of essays for Guernica, an online art and politics magazine. She is also at work on a book of critical and personal essays. Suzanne received her MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, where she was the recipient of a School of the Arts writing fellowship and a teaching fellowship. She received her BA from Cornell University. She grew up in the Bronx and in Queens. She joined CUP’s board in January 2008.

Adam Michaels is a New York City-based graphic designer.

Adam Michaels is a New York City-based graphic designer.

Adam Michaels has worked on Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street

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Lize Mogel is an artist who makes maps, distributing and inserting her projects into urban public space. She has produced site-specific cartographi…

Lize Mogel is an artist who makes maps, distributing and inserting her projects into urban public space. She has produced site-specific cartographic projects for transit shelters in Los Angeles and for former World’s Fair sites in North America. Lize has also worked with the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles.
As a fundraiser, she was Grants Officer at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles from 2002-2004, where she was responsible for foundation and government giving. She works as a grants consultant for the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT and Good Old Lower East Side, among others.
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Lize Mogel has worked on Mind the Gap, Big up, Jamaica!, Knoxville: Building Communities

Valeria, a native New Yorker, coordinates CUP’s education projects and public programs. She comes from a background in visual studies and film and …

Valeria, a native New Yorker, coordinates CUP’s education projects and public programs. She comes from a background in visual studies and film and architectural theory with a degree from Brown University in Modern Culture and Media. In addition to working many years in the non-profit sector, she is an independent film curator specializing in scientific films. Valeria is also on pest-control patrol in the CUP office.

Valeria Mogilevich has worked on Knoxville: Building Communities, The Water Underground, Green Information Center, Tagging the Social Contract, Prison City Comix, Temporary Showroom, People and Buildings, Freedom and Incarceration, Making Policy Public, Bodega Down Bronx, Mapping the Concourse, The Internet is Serious Business

Chris Molinski has worked on Knoxville: Building Communities

Jennifer Monzon has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Armando Morales has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Sarah Nelson Wright is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates interdisciplinary media projects …

Sarah Nelson Wright is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer and educator from the San Francisco Bay Area. She creates interdisciplinary media projects about the urban experience that both explore the changing city and investigate avenues for intervention. As a founding member of Electronic Social Club [ ESC ], she fosters collaboration among socially engaged media artists. Sarah enjoys writing about new media and urban development, and teaching art and theory to students of all ages. She holds a BA in American Studies from Yale and an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College.

Sarah Nelson Wright has worked on Bodega Down Bronx, Mapping the Concourse, The Internet is Serious Business

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Oliver Neumann has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

Kim has worked on The Water Underground

Kim has worked on The Water Underground

Kim Nuñez has worked on The Water Underground

Kentaro Okuda is an interaction designer. He holds an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. . He is currently the Directo…

Kentaro Okuda is an interaction designer. He holds an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from New York University. . He is currently the Director of Design at SGF Associates in New York where he develops innovative lighting systems using LED and glass fiber optics. He is interested in network technology and interaction design with tangible objects.

Kentaro Okuda has worked on The Subsidized Landscape

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Tony is a longshore worker in the Port of NY-NJ. He also serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of ILA Local 1588 and Co-Chair of the Longshore Workers’...

Tony is a longshore worker in the Port of NY-NJ. He also serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of ILA Local 1588 and Co-Chair of the Longshore Workers’ Coalition.

Tony Perlstein has worked on The Cargo Chain

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Jared has worked on The Water Underground

Jared has worked on The Water Underground

Jared Pierre has worked on The Water Underground

Dave Powell has worked on Important Housing Rights

Kevin Pyle is a comic artist. His books include Blindspot, Lab U.S.A. and Prison Town. He is also a co-editor of World War 3 Illustrated, America’s…

Kevin Pyle is a comic artist. His books include Blindspot, Lab U.S.A. and Prison Town. He is also a co-editor of World War 3 Illustrated, America’s longest running political comics anthology.

Kevin Pyle has worked on Prison City Comix

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Hatuey Ramos Fermin is an educator and multimedia artist. Born in the Dominican Republic, raised in Puerto Rico, he is a Dominirican. In 1995, he r…

Hatuey Ramos Fermin is an educator and multimedia artist. Born in the Dominican Republic, raised in Puerto Rico, he is a Dominirican. In 1995, he received a scholarship to study at the San Juan Art League until 1997. He then continued at the University of Puerto Rico where he received a B.A. in Fine Arts in 2002. During his undergraduate tenure, he was awarded the University's Presidential Scholarship to go to study as an exchange student of art and theater at Hunter College C.U.N.Y. (1998-1999). Following his B.A., he was awarded the HSP Huygens Programme Scholarship (2006) to complete an M.F.A. in Photography at St. Joost Art and Design Academy in Breda, The Netherlands, (2007). As an art educator he has worked with different community based organizations in Puerto Rico, Amsterdam, and New York City. Hatuey worked as a teaching artist on two CUP Urban Investigations: I Love East New York and Living Underground.

Bill Rankin is a historian and cartographer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently finishing a PhD at Harvard on the history of engine…

Bill Rankin is a historian and cartographer living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is currently finishing a PhD at Harvard on the history of engineering and map-making in the first era of globalization; his latest mapping projects will be appearing soon in National Geographic Magazine and a traveling exhibition on experimental geography with Independent Curators International. Bill likes the internet and makes sporadic updates to his website.

Bill Rankin has worked on The Cargo Chain

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David Reinfurt has worked on Social Security Risk Machine

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Damaris Reyes, has been the Executive Director of PHROLES since April 2005. She is a lifelong resident of the Lower East Side and has been involved…

Damaris Reyes, has been the Executive Director of PHROLES since April 2005. She is a lifelong resident of the Lower East Side and has been involved in public housing issues for more than eight years. Previously, as the Director of Organizing for public housing for PHROLES, she worked to educate and empower residents about the issues that plague public housing. She is a founding member of PHROLES has been involved in building several coalitions, including T.R.A.D.E.S. and Rebuild with a Spotlight on the Poor. In November 2002, she traveled to Europe on a study tour to learn about planning and municipal practices employed by European cities. She is a member of the New York City Jobs with Justice Board of Directors Executive Committee and the Pratt Center for Community Development Advisory Board. Her past credits include working in city government with Council Member Margarita López and electoral politics within the Lower East Side community. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and began with the organization in 2000.

Damaris Reyes has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

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Desney Reyes has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?

Damon Rich, CUP’s founder, is a designer and artist. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the 2008 Venice Biennale, Stor…

Damon Rich, CUP’s founder, is a designer and artist. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the 2008 Venice Biennale, Storefront for Art and Architecture and SculptureCenter (New York City), the Canadian Centre for Architecture (Montréal), and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (Rotterdam). In 1997, he founded the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people understand and change the places they live, where he served as Creative Director for 10 years. Damon has taught design and planning at institutions including the Parsons School of Design, Heritage High School, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Queens Library Adult Learning Center. He writes about architecture and politics for publications including the Village Voice, the Nation, Metropolis, and Architecture magazine. Damon has been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts award for his work with adult literacy and architecture, as well as a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony for his work on the history of urban renewal. In 2007, Damon was selected as a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an Artist-in-Residence at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, where he developed a exhibition on architecture, real estate, and finance. He currently serves as the Urban Designer and Waterfront Planner for the City of Newark, New Jersey. www.damon.anothercupdevelopment.org

Damon Rich has worked on Public Housing 101, PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Building Codes, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, Gautreaux v. Urban Renewal, The City without a Ghetto, Urban Renewal Activity Tables, Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street, The Center for Critical Skills, The Subsidized Landscape, The Connection between Abandoned Buildings and Homeless People, Governors Island Points of Interest, Cybercity Walking Tour, Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, Schoolyard Visions, Detroit Do Your Thing!, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism, The Water Underground, Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story, Mind the Gap, Big up, Jamaica!, Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!, What's Poppin at Fulton Mall?, Code City, Social Security Risk Machine, The Programmable City, Chew On This, Temporary Showroom

Edwin Rodriguez is a student at City-as-School.

Edwin Rodriguez is a student at City-as-School.

Edwin Rodriguez has worked on The Water Underground

Lenny Rodway has worked on Big up, Jamaica!

Kate is the New York City Coordinator of the Reentry Net project at The Bronx Defenders. Reentry Net is a collaborative, statewide network and onl…

Kate is the New York City Coordinator of the Reentry Net project at The Bronx Defenders. Reentry Net is a collaborative, statewide network and online resource center on the consequences of criminal proceedings for individuals and their families in New York. Kate has also worked with Critical Resistance, a grassroots organization that works with communities to develop genuine forms of safety that don’t rely on prisons and police. She has taught reading, writing and computer skill to girls and women at a prison for girls in Lansing, NY and the Fortune Society in New York City. She worked as a researcher for the Economic Justice Project of the Brennan Center for Justice, supporting local worker organizing campaigns and asssiting in research projects on New York’s informal labor market. Kate received a BA in History at Cornell University
in 2001. She serves on the Board of CUP.

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Paul Schuette is an architect living in Los Angeles.

Paul Schuette is an architect living in Los Angeles.

Paul Schuette has worked on The Connection between Abandoned Buildings and Homeless People

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Eric Schuldenfrei is a designer who focuses on the evolving relationship between animation, architecture, and art. He currently teaches in the Arc…

Eric Schuldenfrei is a designer who focuses on the evolving relationship between animation, architecture, and art. He currently teaches in the Architecture departments of Princeton and Columbia Universities.

Eric Schuldenfrei has worked on Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto

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Alice is an art-organizer, artist, designer, and investigator of city landscapes who has worked with various community art organizations, independe…

Alice is an art-organizer, artist, designer, and investigator of city landscapes who has worked with various community art organizations, independent publications and urbanism non-profits. She is currently completing degrees in Art-Semiotics and Urban Studies at Brown University with an Honors thesis project focusing on radical cartography.

Alice Shay has worked on PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Detroit Do Your Thing!

David Smiley is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Barnard College. His research and teaching include architectural history a…

David Smiley is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Barnard College. His research and teaching include architectural history and theory, architectural design, urban design and planning and urban history. Smiley has lectured on housing, zoning and urban land use issues to various scholarly organizations, such as the Society of Architectural Historians and Society for City and Regional Planning History, as well as professional groups including Barnard Colleges Civic Engagement Program, Exit Art Gallery (NYC) and the New York City Bar Association. He has written on cities, suburbs and architecture in Perspecta and Lotus magazines, the Urban Design Review, the Journal of Architectural Education and the Journal of Urban History. In 2002, he edited Redressing the Mall: Sprawl and Public Space in Suburbia for the National Endowment for the Arts, charting debates in the re-use of aging shopping malls. In 2001 he co-wrote Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, a community-based urban design study, as a Fellow for the Design Trust for Public Space (NYC). He is currently working on Pedestrian Modern, a study of the relation of architectural practice, urban planning and shopping centers before 1955. Smiley received a Ph.D. from Princeton University, a Masters of Architecture and a Masters of Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, and a B.A. from Vassar College. He is a partner in Kogod-Smiley Architects, with completed residential, commercial and institutional work in New York, San Franciso, Maine and Jerusalem.

Pam Sporn is a Bronx-based documentary filmmaker whose work interweaves historical narratives and personal storytelling. Her films have screened at…

Pam Sporn is a Bronx-based documentary filmmaker whose work interweaves historical narratives and personal storytelling. Her films have screened at many venues and festivals including the Anthology Film Archives, The Havana Film Festival, The Chicago International Latino Film Festival, The London International Documentary Film Festival, and at colleges and community media centers nation-wide. Her work includes CON EL TOQUE DE LA CHAVETA/With a Stroke of the Chaveta (2007), which traces the tradition of "el lector" reading to cigar makers while they work, CUBAN ROOTS/BRONX STORIES (2000), a look at immigration, racial identity, and US-Cuban relations through the lens of one black Cuban-American family; RECORDANDO EL MAMONCILLO/REMEMBERING THE MAMONCILLO TREE (2006), a joyous documentary short about the annual dance held by El Club Cubano Inter-Americano in New York City for the last three decades; and DISOBEYING ORDERS: GI RESISTANCE TO THE VIETNAM WAR (1990).
Since the late 1980's Pam has taught social issue documentary video production in public high schools, at the Educational Video Center (EVC), and other community media centers. She currently teaches at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, where she and her students have developed Fannie Lou TV, an on-line news show that airs to the school on a monthly basis.
Pam has received awards and funding from Latino Public Broadcasting, New York State Council on the Arts, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, and the Bronx Council on the Arts. She has an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and has taught in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter as well as at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Angela Starita has worked on Knoxville: Building Communities

Sam Stark is the author of the children’s book Diderot: French Philosopher and Father of the Encyclopedia. He works as an assistant editor at Harpe…

Sam Stark is the author of the children’s book Diderot: French Philosopher and Father of the Encyclopedia. He works as an assistant editor at Harper’s Magazine.

Sam Stark has worked on Building Codes, The Subsidized Landscape, Social Security Risk Machine

Celina Su’s interests lie in the role of civil society in social policy, especially in the interaction of culture, grassroots groups, and educatio…

Celina Su’s interests lie in the role of civil society in social policy, especially in the interaction of culture, grassroots groups, and education or health care policy-making.

Celina Su has worked on Gautreaux v. Urban Renewal, The City without a Ghetto

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Tamara Sussman has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

Meredith TenHoor researches contemporary urbanism and politics. She is a Ph.D.candidate in Architecture at Princeton University.

Meredith TenHoor researches contemporary urbanism and politics. She is a Ph.D.candidate in Architecture at Princeton University.

Meredith TenHoor has worked on Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street

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Cassie Thornton is an artist and teacher living and working in Brooklyn.

Cassie Thornton is an artist and teacher living and working in Brooklyn.

Cassie Thornton has worked on Tagging the Social Contract

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Thumb is a design office that works on both commissioned and speculative graphic communication projects, usually in the area of architecture and ur…

Thumb is a design office that works on both commissioned and speculative graphic communication projects, usually in the area of architecture and urban design. Thumb was established in New York as an independent office in 2004. Current members are Luke Bulman and Jessica Young with special assistance from Shoko Tagaya and Carolyn Thomas.

Thumb has worked on The Cargo Chain

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Daniel Tisdale has worked on Just In/Justice

Oscar Tuazon has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City, The City without a Ghetto, The Subsidized Landscape, Governors Island Points of Interest, Cybercity Walking Tour

Carrie Walker has worked on Knoxville: Building Communities

Althea Wasow is an independent writer and filmmaker. Her work has focused on the experiences of outsiders and cultures of crime and punishment. Her…

Althea Wasow is an independent writer and filmmaker. Her work has focused on the experiences of outsiders and cultures of crime and punishment. Her film, The Wannabe, won Best Short at the New York International Latino Film Festival. She is senior editor and co-writer of An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, an exhibition of photographs by Taryn Simon at the Whitney Museum of American Art (Spring 2007) and a book, of the same name, published by Steidl. Before moving into media production, she taught English and history at Bread & Roses Integrated Arts H.S. She serves on the Board of Directors of CUP (the Center for Urban Pedagogy),a non-profit organization concerned with community participation in urban planning and the political uses of architecture.

Althea Wasow has worked on The Wannabe

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Steph Whitehouse is a graphic designer, city planner and Canuck based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She earned an undergraduate degree in communication de…

Steph Whitehouse is a graphic designer, city planner and Canuck based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She earned an undergraduate degree in communication design from NSCAD in Halifax, Nova Scotia and will soon complete graduate studies in city planning at the University of Manitoba. She is the founder and director of Public Image Co, working primarily for non-profit arts and cultural organizations and teaches design theory at the University of Manitoba. Steph currently sits as co-chair on the board of Art City, a non-profit community art center.

Daniel Wiley is a Community Coordinator for Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (since 2000) covering issues in the Brooklyn portion of her NY 12t…

Daniel Wiley is a Community Coordinator for Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (since 2000) covering issues in the Brooklyn portion of her NY 12th Congressional District, from the Brooklyn Navy Yard southwest through waterfront communities Vinegar Hill, DUMBO, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn Heights, Carroll Gardens, Red Hook, Gowanus, Park Slope, and Sunset Park. He handles community issues for the Congresswoman and coordinates local planning projects and initiatives. He holds an M.A. degree in Geography from Hunter College, CUNY, and his recent thesis is entitled Planning Brooklyn Bridge Park: The Political Economy of Place (2007). Mr. Wiley has lived and worked in Brooklyn since 1988: as an education program coordinator for Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment (BCUE, 1993-1999) focusing on urban architecture, social studies, neighborhood history, urban planning, and environmental issues, and conducts numerous public walking tours. He has a BFA degree from Cooper Union (1987) and was a fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1988). His work can be found in If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism, Seattle: Bay Press, 1991 (a Project by Martha Rosler, Edited by Brian Wallis).

Dan Wiley has worked on Building Codes, The Programmable City

Christine Williams has worked on Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism

Rosten Woo is former Executive Director of CUP. He has been producing public education projects with CUP since 2001. He teaches design history and …

Rosten Woo is former Executive Director of CUP. He has been producing public education projects with CUP since 2001. He teaches design history and theory at Parsons, the New School for Design and produces historical research and writing on history, design and public policy for Place Matters, the Municipal Arts Society, Metropolis Magazine and the Village Voice. He has also worked as a researcher and policy analyst for a variety of non-profit organizations including Common Ground Community and the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center. He serves on the board of like-minded non-profits, Place in History and Groundswell Community Mural Project. He received his BA in Government from Cornell University.

Rosten Woo has worked on Entry Sequence, Public Housing 101, PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The Programmable City, The City without a Ghetto, The Center for Critical Skills, Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street, Important Housing Rights, The Subsidized Landscape, Schoolyard Visions, Detroit Do Your Thing!, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism, The Water Underground, Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story, Mind the Gap, Big up, Jamaica!, Code City, Knoxville: Building Communities, Mapping the Concourse, Temporary Showroom, People and Buildings, Just In/Justice, The Cargo Chain, Building Codes, Bodega Down Bronx, The Internet is Serious Business

Amber is a determined young lass juggling multiple projects and ambitions. She is currently based in Ottawa, Canada and is Public Programs Coordina…

Amber is a determined young lass juggling multiple projects and ambitions. She is currently based in Ottawa, Canada and is Public Programs Coordinator for the Ottawa Art Gallery. Her activities as an artist and educator include: award-winning butter sculpture, illustrations published with Delerium Press, assistance with the St.Petersburg Summer Literary Seminar, teaching art at MIND Alternative High School, and collaboration with other visual and performing artists for interdisciplinary integrated arts programming at Bloorview Kids Rehab. She holds a BFA from Concordia University and a BEd from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Amber Yared has worked on What's Poppin at Fulton Mall?, The Water Underground

Yiu is currently invited as a Design panelist for Rebuild Chinatown Initiative’s Chinatown Design Lab. She is also examining architecture and deve…

Yiu is currently invited as a Design panelist for Rebuild Chinatown Initiative’s Chinatown Design Lab. She is also examining architecture and developments in Hong Kong/China, issues relating to global outsourcing and New York City’s complex networks.

Marisa Yiu has worked on Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The City without a Ghetto

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What will become the new language of architecture?
The world is ready for the new epoch of architecture whereby it longer indulges itself in inter…

What will become the new language of architecture?
The world is ready for the new epoch of architecture whereby it longer indulges itself in internal games. Architecture now more than ever must become a part of consequential, political imagination.

Kaz Yoneda has worked on Detroit Do Your Thing!

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Kate Zidar is Program Director of Environmental Education at the Lower East Side Ecology Center. Kate has worked previously as an Assistant Planner…

Kate Zidar is Program Director of Environmental Education at the Lower East Side Ecology Center. Kate has worked previously as an Assistant Planner with the Planning Center at Municipal Art Society and as a consultant for NYC Housing Authority’s Greening and Gardening Program. She holds a BS in Biology from the University of Colorado, and an MS in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center For Planning and the Environment. Her professional focus in recent years has been on combined sewer overflow and outreach issues in pollution prevention. She is active with many community-based organizations such as Newtown Creek Alliance, Water Resources Group and the East River Network. She is a Master Composter and an active member of Green Dome Community Garden in Brooklyn.

Kate Zidar has worked on The Water Underground