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AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Legacy Cities
Historic Preservation
Community Engagement
Innovative Programming

Graphic Design

Passionate and award-winning preservation professional with a demonstrated history of developing innovative projects, forming non-traditional partnerships, and meaningfully engaging with local stakeholders to accomplish impactful programs. Extensive experience working in legacy city communities facing challenges of economic disinvestment and vacancy, and using data to help cities guide strategic reinvestment decisions. Skilled at active listening and community engagement as well as graphic design and proficient in Spanish. Strong professional who thrives as an independent self-starter and as part of a collaborative team, and holding Masters' Degrees in Historic Preservation and Urban Planning from Columbia University. 

Email
emiliecevans@gmail.com

Phone
202-413-3424

Receiving the American Express Aspire Award in 2015 from the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Ideating Brick + Beam Detroit with a team from The New School after the Knight Foundation selected us to prototype the program (2015)
Presenting at Rutgers University as part of "Legacy City Preservation: A National Conversation," hosted by the Preservation Rightsizing Network
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Presenting at Columbia University for the Inquiry:HP lecture series
In Hawaii with my East-West Center's New Generation Seminar cohort.
Fellow members of the Preservation Rightsizing Network (Michael Allen, Cara Bertron, and Brad White)
Richmond, Illinois after speaking at a conference
Fellow Brick + Beam Detroit cofounders Victoria Olivier (left) and Amy Elliott Bragg (center) at our launch in March 2015