I am the Chair of Interior Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York.
The program is a challenging, spatially driven program that prepares students for professional work while providing the tools and skills to redefine what the Interior can be.
Since stepping into the role I have been working with faculty and students to refocus the curriculum to address design as an agent of change, to support the design for social justice, sustainability, and interdisciplinarity.

I support faculty and students in their research providing a healthy environment for their personal and professional growth. I help to provide a direction for the program and the curriculum.

My goal is to see the Pratt INT program at the forefront of an evolving/emerging design curricula which break down disciplinary silos and engage in the pursuit and activation of design as an agent of change.*

I am pursuing a permaculture design certification - which has been a long term goal of mine. I see my engagement with Regenesis Institute as an opportunity to learn more and practice a more wholistic approach to design/design eduction and my ability to facilitate regenerative opportunities.

Permaculture certification.
After leaving the chair's position I hold now, I would like to take what I learn here in TRP to the upper levels of academia - OR - become more instrumental in my local community and share what I can, and help support and facilitate what I can.

Ummm - there is not enough space to fully answer this question.
I don't mean to be flippant - but in a way - it's a lifetime of investment in questioning, seeking, risking.

I am educated, trained, and practice as an architect.
I worked in the luxury fashion industry for 15 years - innumerable lessons learned, usually dismissed by our kind of people.
Art/Architecture/History/Theory/Practice
Ed Mazria, Ian McHarg, DH Meinig, JB Jackson, Colin Rowe, Christopher Alexander, Nato Thompson, Teddy Cruz, Miuccia Prada/Patrizio Bertelli.
Poets, Writers, Film makers
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Hmmmm - that's a curious question to ask in an online survey.
In a very macro view, the earth is an infinitesimally small part of an enormously larger system, and as such the role of humans - as we know us ... is pretty negligible.
Even at a more local (!) and tangible scale, the best we can do is act as the best custodians of the context in which we live.