About Yonah
Yonah is a native of Durham, North Carolina and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Plann
Education, Teaching, Grants
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA | 2016-Present PhD candidate in City Planning, Department of Urba
Dissertation Project
Shaping Metropolitan Mobility: The Multi-Level, Multi-Jurisdictional Politics of Transportation Infrastructure Dissertation Co
Research
I study how local governments shape planning outcomes in the context of political conflict and multi-level governance systems.
Writing
I have worked as a journalist and op-ed contributor on hundreds of articles for more than a dozen outlets, including The New Y
Planning Experience
Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC), Chicago, Illinois Project Manager, January 2014-July 2016 (Previously employed as Associ
The Transport Politic
The Transport Politic was created in October 2008 and tracks the state of transit in the U.S. and around the world; I founded
Conference and Workshop Presentations
Academic Urban Affairs Association, April 2019 (upcoming), Los Angeles CA “Infrastructure as an ideological project: Var
Design
Below, find a selection of the design work I conducted as a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Yale U