Faculty Collaborators
Lauren Ames Fischer, director of HILL, is faculty member in urban and regional planning and research director for the Rudy Bruner Center for Urban Excellence in the School of Architecture, University at Buffalo. Her scholarship leverages the planning and management of infrastructure and land use systems to understand structural power dynamics in public decision-making.
Research Interests: equity and sustainability, urban planning, transportation, infrastructure, land use, economic development and municipal governance, transdisciplinary pedagogy, interdisciplinary and collaborative science.
HILL Research Team
Current
Grace Wiseman, Environmental Design
Jason Myrick, Environmental Design
HILL Alumni
Ojonugwa Emmanuel, Public Administration
Raine Walker, Urban Policy and Planning
Grace Martin-Young, Geography and the Environment
Siddhi Pawar, Urban Policy and Planning
Mona Tadayon, Public Administration
Nicholas Collins, Graduate Student, University of Illinois
Research Interests: Sustainable Landscaping, Environmental Planning, Zoning, Land Use, Demographics
Jose Carlos Marines, Graduate Student, University of North Texas; Analyst, City of Lewisville, TX.
Research Interests: Inclusive and equitable development, Downtown Revitalization, Healthy Infrastructure Implementation
Tyler Powers, Graduate Student, Iowa State University
Zahra Ricketts, North Central Texas Council of Governments
Brandi McDow, North Central Texas Council of Governments
Dalton Dickson, M.P.A., Pros Consulting
Kristopher Potts, City of Colleyville
Brand Richter, University of North Texas
Alexis Worley, University of North Texas
Ben Meador, Transport Planner, RPS
Karlie Russell, Texas Tech University
HILL research team, spring 2022. Clockwise from top: Jose Marines, Alexis Worley, Lauren Fischer, Brand Richter, Kris Potts.
Lauren Ames Fischer, Ph.D. 