Abby is an urban designer and planner with experience in resilience, transportation, and master planning. She believes that well designed public spaces, whether in the form of streets, parks, or urban plazas, have a powerful role in not only building communities but also helping to address some of the defining issues of our time. Prior to SITELAB, Abby was an active transportation planner and designer. She brings a technical background in integrating mobility and urban design and her work has spanned the city design scales and subjects; from regional network planning and city-wide resilience plans to detailed multimodal street design. She has practiced urban design in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. 

Abby holds a Master of City Planning with an urban design emphasis from UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, and a BA in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Scripps College.