Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In this video, architects, educators, and advocates discuss creating school environments that serve a broad range of bodies and minds.
Panelists
Mary Burnham, founding partner of MBB Architects.
Lauren Melissa Ellzey, autistic self-advocate, author, educator, and activist. Ellzey is an instructional support specialist for the Nest Support Project at NYU and has collaborated with organizations such as Reframing Autism.
Kayla Hamilton, performance maker, dancer, educator, and consultant based in the Bronx. Hamilton has been a special education teacher at the Highbridge Green School in the Bronx since 2017.
Kristie Patten, counselor to the president at New York University and professor in the department of occupational therapy at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She is the principal investigator of the Nest Support Project at NYU.
Irina Verona, founding principal at Verona Carpenter Architects. Verona is a founding editor of Praxis: a Journal of Writing and Building.
Jennifer Carpenter, founding principal at Verona Carpenter Architects. Carpenter is an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University GSAPP.
This program closed with a panel discussion and an audience Q&A moderated by Irina Verona and Jennifer Carpenter.
In this video, architects, educators, and advocates discuss creating school environments that serve a broad range of bodies and minds.
Panelists
Mary Burnham, founding partner of MBB Architects.
Lauren Melissa Ellzey, autistic self-advocate, author, educator, and activist. Ellzey is an instructional support specialist for the Nest Support Project at NYU and has collaborated with organizations such as Reframing Autism.
Kayla Hamilton, performance maker, dancer, educator, and consultant based in the Bronx. Hamilton has been a special education teacher at the Highbridge Green School in the Bronx since 2017.
Kristie Patten, counselor to the president at New York University and professor in the department of occupational therapy at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. She is the principal investigator of the Nest Support Project at NYU.
Irina Verona, founding principal at Verona Carpenter Architects. Verona is a founding editor of Praxis: a Journal of Writing and Building.
Jennifer Carpenter, founding principal at Verona Carpenter Architects. Carpenter is an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University GSAPP.
This program closed with a panel discussion and an audience Q&A moderated by Irina Verona and Jennifer Carpenter.
