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ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

2022 - 2023

National Center for Smart Growth Education and Research | University of Maryland

Small Business Anti Displacement Network Case Study Grant 

2020 - 2021

University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH

School of Planning Outstanding Teaching Award 

2017 - 2018, 2019 - 2020

University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH

School of Planning Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award 

2017 - 2018

University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH

University Research Council Dissertation Research Award 

2015

Iowa State University | Ames, IA

Property Rights and Land Use Scholarship

2015

Annual Conference APA Iowa Chapter

Winner of Student Poster Contest

HONORS AND AWARDS

PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCES

Co-author “Formalization of the Informal Sector through Hawkers’ Unions.” Small Business Anti Displacement Network, Maryland (Nov 2023)

 

Co-author Book Chapter “Serious GeoGames for civic engagement in urban planning: discussion based on four game prototypes” The Virtual and The Real: Perspectives, Practices and Applications for The Built Environment, Routledge, 2018  

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Round Table Discussant “Preventing Small Business Displacement in Gentrifying Neighborhoods” ACSP Annual Conference, 2023

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Speaker for the Session “State of Play in Cities: Voices from across the World” at International Webinar Series “PLAY AND PUBLIC SPACE” hosted by ACE, IPA-India, IPA-World, and UNICEF. Nov-Dec 2020
 

Presenting Author “Urban Outdoor Play in the Socio-Cultural Context of West Bengal, India”, ACSP Annual Conference, 2022


Presenting Author “Free-Play Opportunities for Children in Existing Urban Parks of West Cincinnati”, ACSP Annual Conference Buffalo, New York, 2018


Presenting Author “Accessible Nature-Play in Neighborhoods: Providing Access to Nature-Play in Nature-Deficit Spaces of Cincinnati”, Association of European Schools of Planning, Young Academics Conference, Groningen, Netherlands, 2018


Book Review of Companion to Public Space, edited by Vikas Mehta and Danilo Palazzo, Published in  Journal of Urban Affairs, 2022 


Book Review of “Children Living in Sustainable Built Environments: New Urbanisms, New Citizens” by Pia Christensen, et al. Published in Children, Youth and Environments, vol. 30, no. 2, 2020, pp. 165–168. JSTOR. 

 

Book Review of "Letting play bloom: Designing nature-based risky play for children" by Lolly Tai. Published in Journal of Urban Affairs, 2023
 

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