Somewhere between listening to a Gujjar elder describe how bamboo holds warmth through a Himalayan winter, and walking the length of Cascade Road in Atlanta speaking with small business owners about rising rents, I came to understand planning as an act of care. Care for place. Care for history. Care for the overlooked story.

My path to this profession began in architecture. I loved design and I found myself more curious about the lives unfolding around the buildings. That curiosity led me to pursue dual master’s degrees in planning and GIS, where I could better understand the systems shaping our neighborhoods and gain the tools to change them. Before Atlanta, I spent a year with IIT Roorkee working in rural Jharkhand, walking to remote tribal villages to help build a Tribal Development Index. That experience grounded me in planning with, not for. Since then, whether conducting qualitative equity interviews with the Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative, disbursing capital in small business recovery grants to businesses I once sat and listened to, or designing an R-PACE pilot and energy efficiency dashboards at Invest Atlanta, I’ve tried to carry that lesson forward.

I’m a planner who moves comfortably between technicalities and community engagement: facilitating conversations, translating complexity into clarity, and turning local wisdom into actionable strategy. My work spans corridor planning in India and Atlanta, climate resilience strategies, vacant housing assessments in Puerto Rico, and energy policy alignment. What ties it all together is a commitment to centering lived experience and shaping places that feel human again. At the end of the day, I do this work because I believe good planning is both technical and tender. It is structured but deeply rooted in listening.

When I’m not at the office, you’ll find me…sketching or painting in watercolor, experimenting with pottery, reading, listening to music, or exploring cities through their food, art, and conversations with locals.