![]() As the founding director of Hester Street Collaborative (HSC), Anne Frederick has worked to develop a community design-build practice that responds to the needs of HSC’s local neighborhood of the Lower East Side/Chinatown as well as the needs of under-resourced NYC communities city-wide. Her unique approach to community design integrates education and youth development programming with participatory art, architecture, and planning strategies. This approach is rooted in partnership and collaboration with various community based organizations, schools, and local residents. Prior to founding HSC, Anne worked as an architect at Leroy Street Studio Architecture and as a design educator at Parsons School of Design and the New York Foundation for Architecture. Anne graduated from Parsons School of Design and The New School for Social Research in 1998, and has represented the work of HSC at various conferences, lectures, and exhibitions. To date, she has coordinated design education programs in over a dozen schools citywide, has overseen community design initiatives in a variety of parks and open spaces on the Lower East Side, and has initiated partnerships with a range of local and city-level organizations to improve the built environment in underserved New York neighborhoods. |
![]() Andrew Hsiao is a senior editor with Verso Books. He was formerly the executive editor of The New Press, and an editor and staff writer with The Village Voice. He’s written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Spin, and other publications, and is the editor of The Verso Book of Dissent and the author of a deck of playing cards, Regime Change Begins at Home. He produces Asia Pacific Forum on WBAI 99.5FM as well as The Communique on WNYE 91.5FM. He’s been a labor organizer and a board member of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities and of the Asian American Writers Workshop, where he has initiated Wordstrike: Writers Against SB 1070. |
![]() Tarry Hum is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College/City University of New York whose research areas focus broadly on immigration, community economic development, and urban planning. She has researched and published papers on the socioeconomic processes and outcomes of immigrant incorporation in urban labor markets, related issues of immigrant settlement and neighborhood change, and the consequences for urban inequality, race and ethnic relations, political representation, and community definition and development. She is currently researching the role of ethnic banks in immigrant financial incorporation and community economic development. Her publications include articles in the Economic Development Quarterly, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Progressive Planning Magazine, Regional Labor Review, AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice and Community, and chapters in edited volumes published by the Russell Sage Foundation, Stanford University Press, and Temple University Press. She is completing a book monograph titled, The Making of an Immigrant Global Neighborhood: Brooklyn’s Sunset Park. Tarry was recently appointed to the Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Center’s Environmental Psychology program. She received her Masters in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her doctorate from UCLA’s School of Public Policy and Social Research. |
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![]() Cassim Shepard is the director of Urban Omnibus, an online publication of The Architectural League of New York. Alongside his editorial role, he makes non-fiction films and writes about the design, planning and experience of cities, buildings and places. He studied filmmaking at Harvard University, urban geography at the University of London (King’s College) and urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has lectured at New York University; Parsons, the New School for Design; the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India; and the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics, and he has exhibited work at the Musee de la civilisation, Quebec; the Cineteca di Bologna; the Salone del Mobile, Milan; and the Venice Architecture Biennale 2006, for which he produced all audio/video content for the International Exhibition. He is currently a Poiesis Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. |
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