She is an India China Institute Fellow 2010‐2012 focusing on the theme of social innovation for sustainable environments. She is the director of the BS Urban Design Program, the first undergraduate urban design program in an art and design school in the nation. Her scholarly focus linking urban design, drawing and ecology is present in her research as well as TILL, a Newark based landscape architecture and urban design practice which she founded in 2002. She is a member of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study Urban Design Working Group, a Long Term Ecological Research project sponsored by the National Science Foundation. She has taught at University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Harvard University, Pratt Institute and the University of Toronto.