[Webinar] Smithsonian Student Travel: Meet the Expert

Meet Geeta Mehta, the Smithsonian Student Travel Expert who will join students for the first departure of our Architecture & Sustainable Design program in New York & Denmark.

Geeta Mehta is an adjunct professor of architecture and urban design at Columbia University. She received her education from the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi and Columbia University, and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. Her experience of working in India, China, Korea, and several countries in Europe, Africa, and South America enables her to bring a global perspective to her teaching. She has spoken on social capital, sustainable and equitable urbanism, and community-based change at forums around the world and she served as a panelist at WomenDeliver in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the Women’s Summit in Sharjah organized by UN Women. In 2018, she was appointed to serve on the Waterfront Management advisory board by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Geeta also co-founded URBZ: User Generated Cities, a research collective that focuses on participatory urban planning and design systems, which was named one of the 100 most influential names in architecture in the world by the magazine Il Giornale dell’Architettura.

This presentation was recorded on January 18, 2023.

Learn more about our Smithsonian Student Travel Experts: https://smithsonianstudenttravel.org/experts/