Recent Work
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Launched a set of creative strategies for the planning, designing, and implementing mobility hubs at three Bay Area sites, a $3.3M project led by TransForm and funded by the California Air Resources Board.
Developed a virtual mobility hub for three Bay Area sites (Oakland, Richmond, and San Jose). The website supports the following initiatives: 1) create awareness around the services provided by the new mobility hub, 2) educate residents about transit resources and discounts, and 3) promote clean mobility options for residents.
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Worked collaboratively with the East Oakland Collective to identify clean air mobility options that could remedy the barriers to accessing the only waterfront immediately accessible to East Oakland residents - the Martin Luther King Jr. Shoreline. Engaged with an advisory group made of local resident experts, partners, organizations, and agencies to inform the planning study, analysis, and design of shoreline access and build cultural programming at the MLK Jr. Shoreline.
Additionally, supported the development of culturally affirming engagement tools e.g. surveys, virtual workshops, and pop-up activations to understand how East Oakland residents get around and specifically to the MLK Jr. Shoreline.
In the process of developing a set of generative strategies for clean mobility options that support their movement and increase their mobility. Additionally, producing a final external facing community “document” with pictures, infographics, and flavor reflecting deep East Oakland using authentic and easy-to-understand plan language.
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Led the conception, development, and implementation of East Oakland Futures Fest – a half-day block party along the Scraper Bike Way that invites residents to celebrate East Oakland as it exists today and envision a future where Black people thrive in Oakland, the Bay Area, and beyond.
We worked with stakeholders to cultivate relationships with organizations that responded to the festival’s eight zone themes (Mobility, Power in Place, Food Sovereignty, Youth Activism, Afrofutures, Arts & Culture, Health & Healing, and Building Prosperity), securing zone anchor commitments from community-based organizations, and coordinating with zone anchors to ensure vendors are providing the appropriate services and activities.
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Worked with the Transportation Equity Caucus project team to facilitate and deliver a collaborative and generative Community of Practice (CoP). This CoP consisted of the transportation equity partner organizations.
Following the implementation of this CoP, we worked with these partner organizations and additional stakeholders to develop a shared national transportation equity action plan. We interviewed key stakeholders and developed and led virtual visioning and learning labs to inform the transportation equity action plan.
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Awarded a contract by the Spin (Ford Mobility) Streets & Equity Team to lead a collaborative research and engagement effort around transportation and mobility in Southwest Atlanta.
Developed and conducted a people-focused research and engagement effort to advance “mobility over modality” and “people over planning” frameworks. The project identifies local mobility issues and explores opportunities for comprehensive mobility planning by partnering with diverse stakeholders.
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Expanded the placemaking program development capacity for the LyftUp East Oakland, a $1M grant project, to strengthen culture & belonging, community ownership, and local business development.
Produced a report summarizing findings from our community engagement efforts, data collected through core stakeholder engagement, and discoveries from a cultural and environmental assessment. emergent labs provided a set of strategies for advancing existing planning concepts like parklets in ways that are generative for Black communities and provided conceptual design and strategic frameworks of how Black communities can imagine their own spaces, using culture and belonging as a guidepost.
