My inspiration for pursuing architecture as a career came from experiencing firsthand its ability to elicit the full range of human emotion for the purpose it serves. The excitement and celebration generated by sporting and event venues, the history and knowledge conveyed by cultural and educational institutions, and the joy and leisure of resilient landscapes - to design these types of spaces would be an intellectual and creative challenge worth meeting.
Center for Architecture Explorations, Pittsburgh, PA, US, Assistant Student Instructor
Supervised a group of ten children, ages 8-10, in the Saturday Sequence program,
a K-12 architecture-based academic enrichment program
Assisted the Architecture Educator in executing lesson plans and class activities,
as well as reinforcing lesson material
Queens Botanical Garden, Flushing, NY, US, Summer Intern
Collaborated in a team to revitalize and maintain the 23,000 sqft Wetland and Woodland Garden exhibit
Designed, dug, and planted a new 5,000 sqft constructed wetland exhibit
Maintained the parking lot rain gardens and bioswales
COCI Construction Inc., Flushing, NY, US, Intern
Reviewed construction documents, calculated material takeoffs, conducted
construction site visits, and met with site foremen and architects under the
guidance and supervision of project managers
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, US, BArch, Architecture
Additional Major in Social and Political History
