Stephen Gray is an Assistant Professor of Urban Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design. His interests center on political and cultural contexts of urban design; socio-ecological urban design approaches to urban resilience; and the intersectionality of humanitarian aid and urban design. Current projects include the Harvard-Mellon Urban Initiative where his team blends archival and design research to foreground systemic racism in physical infrastructures of Boston; process design for the co-creation of child-focused spaces with Syrian refugees; and research with the World Bank examining the interconnectedness of social, natural, and spatial systems as they relate to informality, vulnerability, and resilience.