Graduate Urban Planning Student Profiles

Growing up in a family of transportation enthusiasts fueled Arnav Prakash’s fascination with urban planning. His experience at the Bloustein School has surpassed his hopes for his education.

Ian Salzman’s MCRP ’25 first exposure to urban development was a summer internship in college, working with a community development corporation and local stakeholders to develop affordable housing.  

As an undergraduate at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria Bori Agboola joined the press club, the Junior Chamber Initiative, and attended several conferences. These activities, and his natural outgoing personality, exposed him to the social, cultural, and environmental issues affecting his community.  

In his research, he traced key moments of public policy interventions that led to increased models of electric school buses with onboard bidirectional charging, and pilot programs currently underway with utilities for V2G applications

After earning a bachelor’s in architecture and working in the field for several years, Divya decided to realign her architecture and design practice towards international planning by working towards a master’s in urban planning in the U.S.

Jeffrey Young’s performances came to a halt with the pandemic, but his experiences while touring fostered a new interest in transportation accessibility.