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SMART Student Work Team

What inspires me about SMART:

I see increased connectivity and research in our transit options as a way to both empower people in a way that promotes social justice and make mobility sustainable in a way that minimizes ecological impacts.

Biography:

Having been born and raised near Detroit, I have always been keenly aware of the need for increased and improved transit options in metropolitan areas. I studied environmental policy and geography at Central Michigan University, and am now enrolled in the University of Michigan's 3-year Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A.) program. I have also been blessed with exciting, challenging and interesting outdoor work experience. In 2006, I worked as a Student Conservation Association (SCA) intern with the National Parks Service in New York City, and I also worked for a year as an Americorps intern with a community forestry non-profit organization in San Jose, California. I hope to use the skills I learn from the M.L.A. program to promote social justice and ecological function through design in urban centers like Detroit. In my freetime, I enjoy playing, seeing and hearing music, camping, and generally soaking in the outdoors.