About ME
[hello world!]
nice to e-meet you (or hopefully we already have) and welcome to my first try at an internet corner.
[past]
I was born & raised in a small suburb called New Milford, (located in the lovely country of New Jersey), which I spent most of my life. Between my father’s carpentry business and the clever eye of a seamstress mother, an early love for all things design: built, natural, and invisible, was created.
A quick detour in computer architecture brought me back to its physical form. Alongside it, concern with the entire human experience: from five senses to the five dimensions of design remained central.
That looked like a childhood in the garden, any new landscape I could find, or eyes glued to a Nintendo DS for Pokemon, Sundays dreading the urban decay of the malls around us, and the best times away from it all in the homeland of Trinidad & Tobago - my inspiration has many homes!
[present]
This January, I graduated from the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Studies where I concentrated in Environmental Architecture & Psychology + a minor in Construction Management.
I was interested in the reciprocal relationship we have with all types of environments, and how we can design new means of being, living, and thinking in the world to support regenerative futures.
This is my third year working for Terreform ONE, non-profit urban design & architecture firm where I work in studio and to teach high school students in our HE3AT program cohort! It’s the best way of imagining what I do in real practice at the closest demographic to myself.
[girl, what the hell does that mean?]
In graduating a term early, you can think of my seven semesters in buckets or themes: a + b to serve c.
1) Human Development + Public Spaces | foundations
2) Drawing for Architects + Green Design | discipline-focus
3) Climate Change + Seeing London’s Architecture | NYU London!
4) Ecological Design + Social Psychology | niche-focus
5) Microeconomics + Premodern Cities | core curriculum
6) Land Use Law + Urban Planning Methods & Practice | masters’
7) Building Information Modeling + Materials & Methods | minor’s
[future-ish]
In the semester off, I currently have my first exhibition piece on display:
Schist before Skyline!
which you can check out on this page here.
In related news, I’m completing my 4 + 1 for a Masters’ in Urban Planning (City & Community concentration) at NYU Wagner this Fall, where I will finish in Spring 2027 concentrating on climate infrastructure & resilience!
