Below is a list of our current student community within the Master of City Planning program for the 2020-21 academic year. For student contact information, please search the UC Berkeley Online Directory.
| Name | Research Interests/Specializations |
| Pierce Abrahamson | Environmental and racial justice, sustainable development, climate resiliency, healthy cities, transportation policy, inclusive planning, public spaces, food and water systems, urban ecology |
| Mona Al-Abadi | Affordable housing, real estate development, wealth building strategies for recipients of housing vouchers |
| Alejo Alvarado | Affordable housing, urban displacement, transportation equity, public transportation, international development, environmental justice, social movements, spatial analysis |
| Brenda Amboy | Public housing, digital inclusion, housing policy in the U.S., city planning, economic and community development, civic engagement in low-income and communities of color, affordable housing, social equity and justice. |
| Jazmin Amini | Transportation and Mobility, Active Transportation, Public Spaces, Urban Design, Public-Private Partnerships, and "Human Scale" Planning |
| Kenji Anzai | Construction, operation, and integration of different modes of public transportation; system dynamics of public transportation as a whole and its relationship to the surrounding lands. |
| Sarah Atkinson | Closed-loop, cooperative & just economies; racial & gender equity; urban sustainability, urban greening and anti-displacement strategies, political ecology, incarceration and urban carceral spaces, alternatives to capitalist exploitation; community-control of land and resources. |
| Amanda Barnett | Urban ecology and racial equity // Green-Blue Infrastructure & Green Gentrification // Participatory Design // Interdisciplinary utilities, transportation, & land use planning //Active Transportation as a stormwater management strategy // Smart Cities & surveillance ethics // Affordable housing, economic development, real rent and reparations // Climate resilience & climate justice // science writing and storytelling // Holistic Engineering |
| Ray Boyle | Regenerative design and development; Integrated earth systems and intelligent cities; Inclusive innovation for equitable futures. |
| Lucia Calderon | Community-based food systems, environmental justice, healthy soils, participatory action research, climate change resiliency |
| Ishita Chandra | Urban Design, Social justice and equity, Community based planning & implementation, Urban Informality, Place-making, solid waste management and Sustainability |
| Melody Chang | Anthropology of bureaucracy and the state; civic participation, citizenship and identity; port cities and waterways; public art and monuments; urban geography and mapping; participatory and civic design processes; and the intersection of planning and criminal justice reform outcomes |
| Aurora Chavez | Public Health x City Planning, Health Equity, Environmental + Social Justice, Anti-Racist Public Policy |
| Karen Chavez | Sustainable communities and development, the intersection between the built environment and health, climate resiliency, environmental justice, transportation planning and policy, GIS |
| Shuyue Chen | Urban Design, Public Transportation and Walking Network, Transit Oriented Development, Metropolitan Governance, Service Design, Smart City. |
| Chun Ho Chow | Urban and Regional Systems, Dynamics, and Morphology; Public and Active Transportation; Emergence of Social Complexity and Urbanism; Complex Systems; Simulations and Modelling |
| Ricardo Custodio | Transportation |
| Kanaad Deodhar | Transportation Planning, Public Policy, Urban Analytics |
| Kevin Dumler | Climate, housing, and transportation interdependencies; politics of urban housing supply |
| Ethan Ebinger | Transportation planning, travel demand modeling, geospatial analysis, sustainable communities and development, active transportation, public transit |
| Robert Feign | Affordable Housing, Housing Policy, Equitable Community Development, and Community Planning |
| Jessica Finkel | Environmental Justice, Social Equity, Active Transportation, Sustainability, Food Access and Security, Climate Change and Resiliency, Public Policy |
| Julia Flessel | Transportation planning, public policy, population growth and displacement, land use, community participation & engagement, food systems |
| Erika Foster | Community resilience, community health, food equity and urban agriculture, civic participation, grassroots city planning; closed loop cities |
| Jamon Franklin | Income inequality, anti-displacement, affordable housing, health equity, sustainable cities, environmental justice, community development, green spaces |
| Amanda Fukutome-Lopez | Built environment and health; violence reduction through built environment interventions; participatory planning; environmental justice; economic and community development; climate adaption planning; gentrification and displacement; food security |
| Dori Ganetsos | Affordable Housing, Community Stabilization Strategies, Gentrification & Displacement, Housing Policy, Project Finance, Racial Equity, Real Estate Development |
| David H. Garcia | Access to green spaces and well-being; equitable economic and community development; transformation of coastal, rural, and agricultural communities; global and comparative planning; environmental justice; urban design; participatory approaches |
| Juan González | Built environment and health, health equity, housing as a human right, housing as health, environmental justice, community empowerment, racial equity and social justice |
| Matthew Gutierrez | Sustainable development, climate resiliency, urban ecology, urban agriculture, active transportation, placemaking |
| Christopher Hacnik | Affordable housing policy and finance; economic mobility and wealth-building strategies; racial desegregation and anti-displacement; pro-density and inclusionary zoning strategies; environmental land use policy; transit-oriented development |
| Gregory Harasym | Transportation planning, Travel demand modeling, Healthy transportation alternatives, Climate change mitigation, environmental justice and health disparities in low-income neighborhoods - especially as they relate to existing transit infrastructure |
| Molly Harris | Access to housing, housing decommodification, equitable economic development, community-led planning |
| Carson Hartmann | Neighborhoods and wellbeing; planning responses to growth, and ensuing displacement and segregation; policy development and evaluation; geospatial and statistical analysis |
| Rourke Healey | Active transportation, healthy cities, community-based planning, regenerative and biophilic urban design |
| Meg Heisler | Housing decommodification, gentrification and anti-displacement strategies, community-led planning |
| Matthew Hui | Transportation Planning; Public Transportation; Active Transportation; Transportation Systems in the US and Abroad |
| Anaïse Jean-Philippe | Displacement, affordable housing, income and racial inequality, international development |
| Felicia Jiang | Urban design as it relates to: sustainability, racial equity and social justice, affordable housing, community engagement, urban renewal, informality |
| Elizabeth Joe | Social Justice and Racial inequality in housing, Economic and Community Development, Urban Design |
| Michael Clyde Johnson | Urban Design, Public Space Design and Theory, Spatial Justice |
| Tera Johnson | Climate change adaptation, environmental and social justice, equitable transportation planning, community-based participatory planning |
| Emily Kaner | Relationships between everyday environments and health behaviors |
| Tiffany Kang | Racial and economic justice; participatory planning; immigrant and refugee communities; youth and formerly incarcerated populations; movement building; urban artistic production / culture-keeping |
| Clay Kerchof | Climate adaptation; natural hazard mitigation; climate and disaster resilience; disaster recovery; sustainable land use; housing affordability; expanding housing supply; economic opportunity; community engagement and coalition building |
| Jennifer Kim | Community-based participatory planning, affordable housing and anti-displacement, inclusive/equitable development, community land trust models, social and environmental justice, sustainable urban design, land use policies, resilience and adaptation planning |
| Anisha Kimble | Urban Design, Transportation, GIS Accessibility Analysis and ADA Compliance in Public Space. |
| Miki Kobayashi | Affordable housing, anti-displacement strategies, gentrification, real estate development |
| Jonathan Kupfer | Transportation policy and planning; public transit; micromobility and active transportation; safety and complete streets |
| Elliot Kwon | Mass Housing Design and Policies, Community-Led Planning, Public Space Design, Placemaking, Modern Korean Architecture and Planning |
| Eugene Lau | Equity centered planning for social justice outcomes, Community led and participatory engagement in planning process, Economic development and revitalization in marginalized communities, Mixed use transportation hubs and housing affordability |
| Janet Le | Urban design, democratic urban design, historic preservation, re-purposing infrastructures, community-based planning and development, community resilience, social justice, placemaking, civic engagement, urban studies in race and ethnicity, people of color activism, geographic information systems and design as critical map-making. |
| Ying Chik (Vanessa) Lee | Environmental Restoration, Environmental Modelling and Urban Design focusing on the Relations between Freedom of Speech and the Design of Civic Space |
| Skyler Lewis | Environmental planning; GIS and geospatial modeling; regional land use and transportation planning; coastal climate adaptation; urban ecology and watershed management; transit network integration and governance; ecological corridors and restoration |
| Emmanuel Lopez | Economic development and housing rights; Deep ecology and the built environment; Climate mitigation and adaptation; Analytics and human behavior |
| Lily MacIver | Environmental and racial justice, impacts of air pollution on low-income communities of color, climate and health equity, community-led policy advocacy and planning, community-based participatory research, youth participation in planning, GIS based analysis. |
| Claire Mardian | Equitable Urban Design, Accessible Transportation, Environmental Justice |
| Laurel Mathews | Equitable climate adaptation, Public transportation access and use |
| Sydney Maves | Bike and Pedestrian-friendly Planning, Public Transportation, Complete Streets, New Mobility, Public Spaces, Green Spaces, Sustainable Cities, Resiliency Planning, Livability, Urban Analytics, GIS |
| Zach McRae | Racial desegregation, community-led planning, grassroots power and movement building, anti-displacement, current consequence of historical planning practices, intersection of land use and water management, land use law, housing and economic development in marginalized communities in the united states of America and other countries, redistribution of wealth and community ownership |
| Honora Montano | Climate adaptation in coastal communities, planning for urban green space, public health and equity, community engagement and education, media coverage of environmental issues |
| Maile Munro | Community-Driven Planning, Affordable Housing, LIHTC, Public Housing, Community Resilience, Civic Engagement, Housing Policy Development & Evaluation |
| Hunter Oatman-Stanford | Transportation equity, active/healthy transportation, safe streets, inclusive design, public-space planning, land use, environmental justice, accessibility, healthy cities |
| Olivia Ortiz | Transportation equity, community-led planning, climate resilience |
| Yuju Park | Affordable housing, gentrification and displacement, mobility, urban design |
| Gabriela Picado-Aguilar | Transportation planning, land use, Transit Oriented Development and active transportantion and transit |
| Maya Price | Transportation Planning, Climate Change, Environmental & Racial Justice, Gentrification & Displacement |
| Shivani Raina | Informality in the Global South, Asset Based Community Development, Participatory Planning & Design, Food Justice, Health & Built Environment, Community Innovation & Disaster Risk Reduction |
| Emery Reifsnyder | Affordable Housing, Climate Adaptability, Urban Analytics, GIS, Remote Sensing, Social and Racial Justice |
| Karl Reinhardt | Sustainable transportation infrastructure, electric vehicle integration, smart city development, natural disaster preparedness and resiliency planning, queer spaces and networks |
| Hannah Rosenberg | Socially and racially just community development; food (in)security; equitable social services; community resiliency |
| Johanna Roth | Environmental health, environmental justice, sustainable cities, food systems, climate change resiliency, food systems, spatial analysis |
| Severin Sáenz | Community-based planning, neighborhood cultural preservation, housing and economic equity, community informed data collection, geospatial analysis and data visualization |
| Travis Schneider | The merging of urban design and transportation planning into an architecture for people in motion (expressways, rail corridors, bridges, tunnels, boulevards, streets, trails, squares, stations and ports), in order to improve and expand the public realm. Also, the geographic, geometric, and technological forces that shape city form, land use distribution, and the layout of roads, rail, and infrastructure. |
| Rasheed Shabazz | Racial and environmental justice and equity; gentrification and displacement; cooperatives, land trusts, and informality; reparations; community-driven and youth participatory action research; GIS; Oakland, Richmond; intercommunalism and Black community development; Afrofuturism. |
| Cali Slepin | Mixed-income development, placekeeping, creative community engagement strategies, and anti-displacement policy |
| Stephanie Steinbrecher | Environmental justice, climate adaptation and resilience, community-based planning, racial and economic equity, and just transition frameworks in urban spaces. |
| Molly Sun | Transportation planning and equity, transit and infrastructure financing, safe and equitable streets, gentrification, displacement, affordable housing, and community building |
| Jun William Tanabe | Urban design, public space, community development |
| Andrew Tate | Transportation planning; walkability in American cities; last mile transportation |
| Keira Thompson | Urban Design, Land Use, Transit Oriented Communities, Community Development |
| Matthew Thompson | Transportation & transit service planning (especially for bus networks); transit oriented development; use of GIS, data science, & analytics in planning; multi-modal mobility options and neighborhood accessibility for all ages and abilities; planning for the elderly; LGBTQ spaces; value of social infrastructure |
| Amy Thomson | Transportation planning and equity, transportation access and equity, sustainable communities, economic development. |
| Julian Tucker | Community-centered and Participatory Planning, Urban Equity, Housing, Community and Economic Development, Sustainable Cities |
| Ben Ulrey | Gentrification, displacement, and development; density and multimodal transit; planning for every age; community engagement; suburbia; sustainable and resilient cities; placemaking |
| Edgardo Vazquez | Equitable Cities, Transportation Planning, Food Systems, International Development, Sustainable Regions & Cities |
| Rafael Velazquez | Public health x city planning, housing policy, neighborhood revitalization planning, urban spatial segregation, health equity, participatory decision making, global south/north relations |
| Haoshi (Joanna) Wang | Urban analytics, transportation planning, GIS, public transit and active transportation planning and engineering |
| Shiying Wang | Transportation and Mobility, Urban Design, Urban Analytics, Social Equity and Justice |
| Elly Wanyonyi | Transportation Planning,Travel demand modelling,Transit Oriented Development,Real Estate Development,Civic Tech,Urban Economics and Affordable housing |
| Lauren Willey | Resilience and adaptation to climate change; water and food systems; sustainable design grounded in ecological patterns; permaculture |
| Michelle Williams | Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Housing, Social Determinants of Health, community-based participatory research, translation of research to public policy creation and implementation, environmental contaminants exposures, climate justice |
| Sadie Wilson | Urban sustainability, active transportation networks, urban bicycle infrastructure, planning for climate resiliency and adaption, the inequality in the effects of climate change and climate disasters and how to mitigate those impacts using physical and socioeconomic interventions, ecologically-driven design solutions |
| Lindsay Wong | Sustainable urban design, participatory planning, urban informality, and community development. |
| Yuquan Zhou | Built Environment, Healthy Cities, Urban Planning |