Akira Drake Rodriguez

Akira Drake Rodriguez is an assistant professor of City & Regional Planning at the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a fellow at the climate + community project and the author of Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta’s Public Housing.

Recent Articles

Now Is Our Chance to Rebuild U.S. Public Schools To Address Both Climate Change and Racial Inequality

When school facilities closed for in-person learning in early March 2020, the assumption was that the shutdown and pandemic would be temporary blips in the memory of our students. Some 16 months later, school facilities...

By Akira Drake Rodriguez , Erika Kitzmiller and Daniel Aldana Cohen
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