Natalia Chavez
Read more about Natalia’s experience as the 2019 MONUM Summer Fellow Natalia Chavez is the Communications and Outreach Director at Urbanability, a Boston-based non-profit organization that focuses on empowering underserved communities from an urban planning perspective. She recently worked at the Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation where she worked on democracy programming […]
Rob DiAdamo
Rob DiAdamo is a Senior Director at WSP, an international infrastructure engineering firm, in the Business Transformation Unit. His work focuses on organizational design, complex procurement, and service delivery for transportation agencies nationwide. Prior to joining WSP, Rob spent most of his career in state government in Massachusetts including as the General Counsel the Executive Office […]
Yi Ding
Read more about Yi’s experience as the 2017 City of Providence Department of Innovation Fellow Yi graduated with a Masters in City Planning in Spring of 2017. Before coming to BU, she worked for the China Urban Construction Design & Research Institute Company. Yi has since moved back to China, where her work has focused […]
Megan J. Elias
Megan J. Elias is a historian whose work and research explore the rich history of food and culture through prisms of food writing, business, and home economics. Dr. Elias has designed and taught classes in the areas of food studies, food in world history, food and gender, and food memoir. Elias is the author of […]
Kevin Flakes
Read more about Kevin’s experience as the 2019 City of Providence Department of Innovation Fellow Kevin pursued a master’s in Urban Affairs with special interest in urban inequalities and capacity building. Before entering the program, he consulted for Banking clients focusing on projects to mitigate risk, eliminate inefficiencies and improve customer experience. Kevin graduated from […]
James O’Connell
Jim O’Connell has worked as a Community Planner at the Boston Office of the Northeast Region of the National Park Service, where he specialized in planning for historic sites and heritage areas. Previously, Jim served as Economic Development Officer of the Cape Cod Commission, the regional planning and land use regulatory agency for Cape Cod. […]
Terrance Regan
Mr. Regan is recently retired as the Principal Technical Advisor for Planning and Innovative Finance at the U.S. DOT’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, MA. His professional work centers on transportation policy, finance, and intelligent transportation systems. For the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, he led the analytical effort by the Massachusetts Transportation Finance Commission, which […]
Yeşim Sungu-Eryilmaz
The question at the core of Dr. Sungu’s work is: what factors influence cities’ economic, social, and environmental sustainability? In searching for answers, she has worked with academics, practitioners, civic leaders, community organizers, and policy analysts. Her publications cover innovation-oriented economic development, brownfield redevelopment, community land trusts, and inter-organizational collaboration in disaster management. She was […]