Education

PHD, 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

M.PHIL, 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

MA (BY RESEARCH), GEOGRAPHY, WITH DISTINCTION, 2014

University of Leeds, U.K.

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

HONORS BA, GEOGRAPHY & URBAN STUDIES, 2013                                                                   

Temple University

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