BOLDNESS—Reimagining the Brooklyn Bridge Competition's Process and Progress - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Wendy Yifei Wang, PLA, ASLA is a landscape architect and the founder of ScenesLab, a design and research collective based in Boston. With a worldly mindset rooted in her global upbringing, Wendy works between urbanism and details, and believes in the power of placemaking that reflects cultural identities. She uses landscape as her primary design medium and works across scales with diverse communities locally and internationally. Wendy received her MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and holds a BSLA with Distinction from Purdue University. She is currently teaching at Northeastern University.

Andrew Lassiter is an urban planner with the New York City Council, where he works to facilitate productive conversations about housing, transportation, and equity among the city's legislators, agencies, and the public. With a background in geography and social work, he's most interested in cross-disciplinary projects, and his work has often lived at intersections of urban design, policy, and social equity - such as an innovative bottom-up citizen-led rezoning to produce affordable housing. Andrew is a graduate of Columbia's GSAPP; a recent Institute for Public Architecture Fellow; and a longtime nonprofit leader with the social justice organization The DREAM Program.

At Van Alen, Andrew oversees programs that mobilize designers to address pressing challenges in communities. Andrew is a researcher trained in empirical analysis of programs and public policy and his work often explores how designers, city leaders, and communities can work together to create healthier, more prosperous neighborhoods. Andrew received his Master of Public Administration from the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service at New York University. He received his Bachelors in History from Williams College.