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Faculty 

Assistant Teaching Professor Juan Grisales is a versatile transdisciplinary designer and researcher with studies in architecture, landscape architecture, ecology, and urbanism. His work focuses predominantly on design research methods to read, decode, and project misinterpreted, and often marginalized domains (territories, ecologies, and publics), their evolving processes, as well as their relation to their larger bio-physical geography. Learn more.

Assistant Professor Nesrine Mansour, joins ENVD from South Dakota State University and is an expert in architecture and the built environment. Her research centers on the convergence of architecture, digital media and sacred spaces, bridging disciplines like social sciences, digital humanities, and modern technology such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Learn more.

Associate Teaching Professor Martín Paddack is founder and principal at DesignMAP, in Washington, D.C. He is an architectural designer, artist and writer who has worked in Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Spain, Uruguay, Peru and the United States. With previous teaching experience in Fine Arts and English, Martín is most interested in finding deeper meanings in architecture through the intersections of color, art, language, cultural identity, social responsibility, sustainability and fabrication. Learn more.

Postdoctoral Associate 

Lecturer Sophie Weston Chien is a designer-organizer: a practitioner and an educator who builds community power through social and physical infrastructure to ensure people can shape their own spaces. Learn more.

Staff 

Writer & Content Coordinator Sierra Brown writes news stories and feature articles that promote ENVD’s alumni, faculty and student stories. She earned her master's degree in urban reslience and sustainability from the Masters of the Environment Graduate Program at ���񱦵�.  Learn more.

Academic Coach Sara Freix is dedicated to supporting ENVD students in their academic, personal and career success. She's pursuing her master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at the University of Colorado Denver. Learn more.

Assistant Director of Advising & Student Retention John Tran oversees the management and assessment of the recruitment for First-Year, transfer and intra-university transfer students, new student orientation, the Diverse Scholars Program, First-Year Experience, and efforts related to student persistence and retention. Learn more.