MIRIAM SOLIS
I am an urban planner. My research, writing, and practice focus on infrastructure planning and design. Examining how infrastructure can reinforce racialized inequality, I highlight organizational, procedural, and policy strategies that advance social justice.
As an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at Austin, I lead research projects that involve partnerships with nonprofit organizations and local government. I am on the leadership team of Planet Texas 2050, UT’s campus-wide grand challenge research initiative. I am also a 2020-2022 UT Austin Humanities Institute Fellow for collaborative work on youth perspectives on racial justice and decarbonization.
My research is informed by practice, including previous work for the cities of San Francisco, New York, and Richmond, CA, as well as for the Greenlining Institute. In 2020, I served on the City of Austin’s Climate Equity Plan sustainable building’s committee. In 2017, I was named a Switzer Fellow by the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation, in recognition of my environmental planning work. I also consult organizations through my practice, Engineering Justice, LLC.
Raised in California’s Central Valley, I am a first generation college graduate and the proud daughter of working-class Mexican immigrants. I received a doctorate in City and Regional Planning, as well as undergraduate degrees in Ethic Studies and Geography, from the University of California, Berkeley. I also hold a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning at the University of Texas at Austin, I lead research projects that involve partnerships with nonprofit organizations and local government. I am on the leadership team of Planet Texas 2050, UT’s campus-wide grand challenge research initiative. I am also a 2020-2022 UT Austin Humanities Institute Fellow for collaborative work on youth perspectives on racial justice and decarbonization.
My research is informed by practice, including previous work for the cities of San Francisco, New York, and Richmond, CA, as well as for the Greenlining Institute. In 2020, I served on the City of Austin’s Climate Equity Plan sustainable building’s committee. In 2017, I was named a Switzer Fellow by the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation, in recognition of my environmental planning work. I also consult organizations through my practice, Engineering Justice, LLC.
Raised in California’s Central Valley, I am a first generation college graduate and the proud daughter of working-class Mexican immigrants. I received a doctorate in City and Regional Planning, as well as undergraduate degrees in Ethic Studies and Geography, from the University of California, Berkeley. I also hold a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
