Archives: Profiles
Adam Paul Susaneck
Adam Paul Susaneck is an architect researching how transportation and housing policy have been used as an instrument of physical division within urban areas. His ongoing project, Segregation by Design, aims to catalog the destruction caused by mid-century urban renewal and highway projects. Adam has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, and The … Continued
October 4, 2023
Amanda O’Rourke
Amanda O’Rourke is the Executive Director of 8 80 Cities, a non-profit organization with a mission to ignite action and challenge the status quo to create healthier, more equitable, and sustainable cities for all people. She has over 20 years of experience leading diverse equitable mobility and public space projects in cities and towns in … Continued
October 3, 2023
Vincent Blanqué
Vincent Blanqué is a Geospatial Engineer, an inveterate urban cyclist (always, he goes to the corner to buy his bread by bicycle), and cycling activist in the different cities where he has lived with Bicicultura in Santiago de Chile, Actibicimo in Lima, Urban Cycle Planning in Copenhagen and now CamCycle in Cambridge. He has carried … Continued
October 3, 2023
Zak Yudhishthu
Zak Yudhishthu is a student and writer based in the Twin Cities. He primarily covers housing and urban policy, and has written for various local and national outlets.
October 3, 2023
Erica D. Walker
Erica D. Walker is the RGSS Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health. She is also the founder of Community Noise Lab, a research lab that supports communities with their noise issues using real-time monitoring, smartphone technology, community surveying, laboratory experiments, and community engagement activities. She believes in problem-solving and … Continued
October 3, 2023
Ruth Kettle-Frisby
Ruth Kettle-Frisby lives in Havering and built her career as an A Level philosophy lecturer, subject leader, and external examiner. She’s now proud carer to her two young daughters, the eldest of whom is severely disabled. Ruth is a Quaker, and member of Mums for Lungs; Havering Climate Coalition; and Clear The In Air Havering. … Continued
October 3, 2023
Brett Zimmerman
Brett Zimmerman is a Firefighter/EMT with Portland Fire and Rescue and recent graduate from Simmons University’s Master of Public Health program, a curriculum rooted in promoting health equity and justice. For the capstone project, Brett partnered with Oregon Walks to examine a potential relationship between sweeps of homeless communities and traffic crashes within Portland, Oregon. … Continued
October 3, 2023
Sara Ortiz Escalante
Sara Ortiz Escalante is a feminist urban planner at Col·lectiu Punt 6. Her main areas of work are related to mobility, urban safety, participatory methodologies, and participatory research from an intersectional feminist perspective. Col·lectiu Punt 6 is an urban planning cooperative based in Barcelona, Spain, working since 2005 on integrating a feminist perspective in urban … Continued
October 3, 2023
