Education

Doctor of Philosophy

PhD IN PSYCHOLOGY (ENVIRONMENTAL), 2024

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Dissertation: Building Networks, Producing Spaces for Play: Local Geographies and National Organizing in the History of Adventure Playgrounds in the United States, 1949-1999

Master of Philosophy

Master by Research

M.PHIL IN PSYCHOLOGY (ENVIRONMENTAL), 2021

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Thesis: Effects of Local Experiences of Racialized Social Welfare Policies on the Production of Adventure Playgrounds in New York City in the 1970s

M.A.RES IN GEOGRAPHY, WITH DISTINCTION, 2014

University of Leeds, U.K.

Thesis: Who Owns the Playground? Space and power at Lollard Adventure Playground

Bachelors

HONORS B.A. IN GEOGRAPHY & URBAN STUDIES, 2013                                                                   

Temple University

Honors Scholar Thesis: Plastic Promises: A critical look at publicly-accessible playground provision and access in Bihac, BiH