Regina is an Urban Planner with a multi-disciplinary background in architecture, engineering, planning, and research. She has led the development of MASS’s signature design processes and tools, bringing a deep understanding of trauma-informed and restorative justice approaches to community engagement, design decision-making, narrative development and impact evaluation. She sees design as a catalyst for restoration, seeking to understand how the built environment can transform legacies of inequity into opportunities for abundance. 

At MASS Design Group, Regina serves as a Senior Principal and Managing Director, leading our Process and Learning team. Since 2013, Regina has fostered a culture of learning and mutuality both at MASS and in the field at large, developing processes that champion accountability and push the bounds of design excellence. Her diverse body of work, spanning community engagement, research, narrative development, and process design, is marked by the capacity for deep listening and for guiding partners towards asking the questions that drive meaningful impact. 

As the principal-in-charge of the Gun Violence Memorial Project and the Restorative Justice Design Lab, Regina maintains a deep commitment to community engagement and creating space for truth-telling, healing, and collective action. In 2017, she launched MASS’s Narrative (now Advocacy) team, where she oversaw publications such as Justice is Beauty and exhibitions including Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics, jointly curated with the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. 

Regina studied Civil Engineering and Architecture at Princeton University, and received her Master in Urban Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.