Patricia Cahill
Patricia serves as the Program Manager and Administrator for the Initiative on Cities. She manages internal IOC events and programming including the Urban Seminar Series, serves as coordinator for the IOC’s five undergraduate and graduate student fellowships, manages the IOC’s seed grant fund, and oversees undergraduate student staff. Prior to joining the IOC, Patricia worked […]
Taylor Cain
Read more about Taylor’s experience as the 2017 MONUM Summer Fellow Taylor Cain is the Chief of Staff at the Boston Housing Authority, the largest housing provider in the City of Boston. She is the former Director of Boston’s Housing Innovation Lab, where she led citywide efforts to pioneer innovative housing models and systems, and […]
David Carballo
David Carballo is a specialist in Mesoamerican archaeology, focusing particularly on the prehispanic civilizations of central Mexico. He received an Early Stage Urban Research Award from the IOC in 2018.
Kenton Card
Kenton Card is a researcher and advocate working with mixed-methods and multi-media to understand housing politics and policy in the United States and Germany. He is an urban planner, sociologist, filmmaker, and Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Initiative on Cities at Boston University (working with Loretta Lees). Kenton received the 2024 Janet Smith Emerging Activist […]
Hannah Carey
Read more about Hannah’s experience as the 2014 Multnomah County Health Department Fellow
Andrea Catania
Read about Andrea’s experience as the summer 2023 MONUM Fellow Andrea is a graduate student in the Gastronomy program focusing on Food Policy at Boston University. She hails from Syracuse and is a proud graduate of The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. Since then, Andrea has spent her career working across several […]
Elizabeth Champion
Read more about Elizabeth’s experience as the 2018 Greater Manchester Combined Authority Fellow Elizabeth Champion studied economics in the College of Arts and Science. Avid about the economics and history of cities, she hopes to eventually pursue her Masters in City Planning. Last fall, she worked as a Community Planning Intern for the City of […]
Natalia Chavez
Read more about Natalia’s experience as the 2019 MONUM Summer Fellow Natalia Chavez is the Communications and Outreach Director at Urbanability, a Boston-based non-profit organization that focuses on empowering underserved communities from an urban planning perspective. She recently worked at the Harvard Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation where she worked on democracy programming […]
Claudia Chiappa
Claudia received her MS in Journalism from Boston University College of Communication. She graduated from Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA with a BA in Communication Studies and Political Science. While in college, she was a writer and editor of her school newspaper The Cosmos, and a consultant at her school’s Writing Center. While at […]
Elizabeth Clackson
Elizabeth is a graduate in Political Science who hopes to work in public policy and urban governance. Through the NLC Menino Fellowship, Elizabeth spent the fall semester paired with IOC Director and Professor Graham Wilson in an on-campus Directed Study program. Through her Directed Study and her internship with the NLC, Elizabeth examined the Boston Centers for […]