Caroline Filice Smith
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PhD Candidate, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Caroline Filice Smith is doctoral candidate in Urban Planning at Harvard University and a Democracy Doctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. Their work focuses on racialized histories of urban design across the imperial US, histories of activist planner-architects, and reparative and abolitionist models of urban design. In addition to their dissertation, which explores the emergence of “participatory planning” in the mid-twentieth century, Caroline teaches and conducts research as part of the Urban Design and the Color-Line project at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and recently completed the Community First Toolkit in collaboration with the High Line Network and the Urban Institute.

Workshop Leader: Creating Equitable Impacts: The Park-In Park-Out Approach