I build stories out of cities, coasts, and margins.

Trained in architecture, urban planning, and public anthropology, I explore the spatial politics of place—how people navigate, contest, and remake their environments in the face of political abstraction and ecological change. I am currently based in California, working as an urban planner with a focus on housing, land use, and development practices across California, Hawai‘i, and the Western U.S. My work oscillates between practice and reflection. On one side, I collaborate with cities and regions to shape equitable planning strategies—from housing reform to community engagement. On the other, I trace how everyday people shape the futures they inhabit—quietly, collectively, or symbolically—through memory, care, resistance, and imagination.

Research Interests

• Environmental anthropology | Anthropology of architecture & landscape | Political ecology
• Energy infrastructures | Socio-political dimensions of climate transitions
• Urban ethnography in coastal communities
• Applied Anthropology | Planning, policy & the role of Expertise | Community Engagement
• Mediterranean ecologies | Cultural heritage & contested landscapes

My Path

My journey began in Athens, at the National Technical University of Athens, where I studied architecture and examined how the built environment reflects political divisions—especially in places like Nicosia. I went on to earn a Master of Urban Design from UC Berkeley, where my thesis focused on environmental injustice and speculative futures in shoreline communities vulnerable to sea-level rise. Centered on Bayview, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco, the work proposed community-rooted alternatives to resist displacement and gentrification.

Professionally, I have worked across California, Hawai‘i, and the U.S. South—supporting equitable housing initiatives, shaping policy frameworks, and designing participatory planning efforts. My contributions to projects like Memphis 3.0, a nationally recognized comprehensive plan, have emphasized resilience, cultural memory, and neighborhood self-determination.

In 2024, I completed an MA in Public Anthropology at Boston University, where my thesis—Fragmented Green Futures: Urban Governance, Public Participation, and the Quest for Sustainability in Limassol, explored how the “green transition” is governed—and contested—in Limassol, Cyprus. The project looked at how urban planners, technocrats, and policy advisors invoke the “public” in conflicting ways: as citizens, as stakeholders, as obstacles, or as audiences. Through fieldwork, I traced how European sustainability agendas meet postcolonial governance and how participation becomes a performance of legitimacy more than a democratic practice.

I have presented my work at forums such as the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, and the International Seminar on Urban Form, and my projects continue to explore the spaces where design, governance, and everyday life converge.

Moving Between Disciplines

I move fluidly between design and the field, between maps and stories. My research and practice reflect a deep commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry, participatory methods, and the belief that space is never neutral—it’s lived, fought for, and remembered. I am particularly interested in how people engage with landscapes not only as users but also as narrators of ecological and environmental transitions.

Upcoming Projects

• Xerolithia and the Aegean Landscapes.
An ethnographic and visual inquiry into dry-stone architectures, ecological memory, and care labor in the Aegean Archipelago—tracing how ancient infrastructures shape contemporary life and land relations.

• Repossession of Life in the Aegean.
A narrative ethnography of urban-to-rural migration to peripheral Greek islands. Through the lens of “repossession,” I investigate how individuals reclaim agency, community, and meaning by choosing life at the margins—reimagining belonging through emotional geography, care, and retreat.

• Industrial Heritage: Ghosts of Labor and Land.
A critical exploration of post-industrial landscapes in the U.S., with a focus on California. This project examines ghostly infrastructures, spectral zoning histories, and the racialized displacement embedded in the built environment.