Given Samuel’s overlapping roles as a PhD student and a member of the GSD Alumni Council, he looks forward to facilitating a more rapid and energetic exchange of ideas between the current student body and the greater alumni community.

As a professor at Wentworth, Samuel worked to expand the School of Architecture and Design’s social and environmental impact not only through academics but also through direct local action. As a co-founding member of the Environmental Action and Social Equity Committee (EASE), he helped to restructure the B.S.Arch. curriculum to be more socially inclusive and more deeply engaged with environmental and ecological systems at all year levels and across all required courses. Samuel also developed a multi-year option studio rooted in the Alabama Black Belt, which elucidated historic racial injustices and explored regenerative design and environmental planning at the regional scale. Over the past six years, Samuel has directed the summerFAB program. This community-engaged, design-build program offers local students from the Boston Public School system a hands-on introduction to architecture and construction as they work together to design and build a small-scale structure for neighboring communities.

While at the GSD, Samuel participated in the following student organizations: Rural GSD, Healthy Places GSD, Harvard GSD Food Lab, Design for Public Good, Zero Waste GSD, Queers in Design, and Design Research Forum (DRF). Samuel is currently a PhD student in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning at the GSD.

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Location: Somerville, MA