A graduate capstone project for a Strategy and Negotiation course, completed in late 2023. The concept was strong. The team dynamics were not. I'll leave it at that Every graduate program has at least one group project that teaches you more about managing people than about the actual subject matter. This was one of mine. The assignment was a strategic analysis and forward-looking recommendation for a major corporation. Our team chose IBM — a company that has spent the better

What drew me to the women and walkability question was straightforward: safety in public space is something I think about, and something that urban development has historically failed to design around. The research is clear — from the age of eight, public spaces are dominated by boys to eighty percent, and girls report feeling significantly more excluded. That gap doesn't close as women age; it calcifies.