April is a transdisciplinary designer, bringing 20 years of experience navigating the intersectionality of architecture, planning, and systems thinking. Her work is inspired by her experiences growing up in the Bronx, New York. In 2015, April co-founded “Designing the WE”, which integrates urban planning, economic development, collaborative engagement, design and systems thinking to co-create robust actions centered on addressing complex social challenges to promote transformative change. There, she launched the co-curated exhibition and platform, “Undesign the Redline”. This project exposes the historical and contemporary spatial reverberations of unjust policies and practices like residential racial ordinances, Redlining, and Urban Renewal.
April sits on the board of the American Sustainable Business Council and works closely on a local and national level with diverse stakeholders within the design sectors, like the Urban Design Forum, on issues of race, equity and democratic architecture.
April holds a BA from New York University, an MS in Design and Urban Ecologies from Parsons School of Design, and she is completing her Masters of Architecture this spring at the City College of New York.
