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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

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

Damon Rich, CUP’s founder, is an artist and designer. His exhibitions use video, sculpture, graphics, and photography to investigate the political …

Damon Rich, CUP’s founder, is an artist and designer. His exhibitions use video, sculpture, graphics, and photography to investigate the political economy of the built environment. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Storefront for Art and Architecture and SculptureCenter (New York City), the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Liepzig), and 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 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. http://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

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.

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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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