Who Shapes the City?: Power, Place, and the Built Environment (Eco Afro Futures Workshop)

​This event is part of Eco Afro Futures.

​Workshop Description: Communities are not constructed in isolation. Rather, they are designed with interdependencies that affect us all. In this dynamic session, you'll interact with the hidden tradeoffs behind the spaces we inhabit by grappling with the question: who bears the environmental cost of our digital world?

​About the workshop leads:

​Chidera Osuji is a full-time MBA candidate at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business where she studies the nexus of equity, circular economy systems, and leadership. Prior to Haas, Chidera was an operations manager at an urban design and landscape architecture firm focused on climate-adaptive and resilient design. She earned her B.A. in Economics and Ethnic Studies from Yale University.

​Haley Carruthers is an urban planner, creative strategist, and MBA candidate at UC Berkeley Haas. Her experience spans municipal planning, community engagement, and large-scale development strategy, including master planning work with Disney. Over the course of her career, her work centers on how cities can be designed to better reflect and serve the communities within them. Specifically examining the intersection of infrastructure, equity, technology, and storytelling. She brings a systems lens to her work, translating complex challenges into actionable strategies while exploring how emerging technologies can shape the future of the built environment. From data-driven planning tools to AI-enabled insights, Haley is interested in how innovation can unlock new ways of understanding, designing, and investing in more responsive and inclusive communities.