While at the University of Michigan earning his degree in economics, he helped pay the bills by designing and building decks. This led to an interest in the built environment. Each experience ultimately fueled his desire to tackle the issues of planning. Grant is motivated by social equity and transit-oriented development. A recipient of a HUD fellowship, he helped to educate teenagers in the planning process.
Youth can be active catalysts for community development.
They should be exposed to the structure that creates change. Grant has been impressed by the program's strong mix of academics and practitioners, good connections, and links to other programs at the university. He is taking these experiences to his job as an assistant project manager for affordable housing development at Bridge Housing in San Francisco. Lynn Roque Lynn is an urbanite at heart, having grown up in Chicago and spent most of her formative years in Boston and Atlantic City. Lynn chose to pursue planning to improve the quality of life for those who live and visit city-regions.