Our Team

• Alanis Allen

  Alanis Allen is a first-year Master of Urban Planning candidate and Bloomberg Public Service Fellow at NYU Wagner. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, but comes to the Furman Center from Connecticut, where she was a Research Analyst at Connecticut's Office of Climate Planning. Through that role she worked on various climate change-related projects and programs including the Governor’s Council on Climate Change and the newly formed Connecticut Equity and Environmental Justice Advisory Council. She is interested in how climate change adaptation can exacerbate or mitigate housing issues. Alanis graduated from Yale University in 2020 with a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Economics.

• Manal Bawazir

  Manal is a master of Urban Planning student at NYU Wagner and a Gallatin Global Fellow in Urban Practice. She is interested in housing justice, equitable economic development, and wants to use her research and data analysis skills to help advance place-based and grassroots methods of planning and community empowerment. Manal is a member of the Paterson Mapping Project (PMP), a collective of researchers, community organizers, and students whose work seeks to collect and democratize data on housing and policing. Her main work with the collective involves researching and employing counter-narratives to inform community-centered practices in Paterson, New Jersey.

• Tony Bodulovic

  Tony Bodulovic is a second-year Master of Public Administration student and David Bohnett Public Service Fellow at NYU Wagner. Before joining the Furman Center, Tony worked in various capacities in local government, with prior positions at the City Council, OMB, and HPD. He is particularly interested in leveraging data to develop housing solutions in New York, with a focus on tenant protections and social housing. Tony received his B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University.

• Isabelle Charo

  Isabelle is a second-year student at NYU School of Law who is interested in fair housing and landlord-tenant law in New York City. This summer, she will be working as a legal intern at Housing Conservation Coordinators. Prior to law school, she worked as a paralegal at a firm specializing in civil rights issues in housing, and worked on matters involving redlining and reverse redlining, accessibility, and NIMBYism. Isabelle graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019 with a dual B.A. in Public Policy and Sociology and a minor in French.

• Dijia Chen

  Dijia Chen is a research assistant for Furman Center Faculty Director Vicki Been. Dijia is currently a student at NYU School of Law. Prior to law school, Dijia practiced as an urban planner in New Jersey and New York, advising municipalities, non-profit organizations, and private sector clients on zoning, land use, real estate development, and fair housing matters. Dijia received a B.A. in Growth and Structure of Cities from Bryn Mawr College in 2016 and a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018.

• Luchuan Deng

  Luchuan Deng is a research assistant for the Furman Center. He is a second-year Master’s student at NYU Politics Department. His research interest is in the institutional, behavioral, and natural causes of inequality in cities and states, reflected for example in exclusionary zoning, eviction, and NIMBYism. Before coming to NYU, he studied urban planning at Peking University.

• Chloe Fauber-Lyle

  Chloe Fauber-Lyle is a Fundraising and Communications Graduate Researcher at the NYU Furman Center. She is a Master of Public Administration student at NYU Wagner with a specialization in Advocacy. She also interns at the Opportunity Networks spending time on the Internships and Career Success team and the Operations team. Additionally, Chloe spent several years at NYU’s fundraising center as a fundraiser and a supervisor. She received her B.A. in Public Policy from NYU.

• Shannon Flores

  Shannon Flores is a second-year Master of Public Administration student and Bloomberg Public Service Fellow at NYU Wagner. She comes to the Furman Center from Sacramento, California, where she was a legislative aide at the California State Assembly. Shannon has staffed legislation to increase affordable housing and reduce homelessness, and has secured over $500 million for state and local programs through the state budget process. Most recently, she worked at the NYC Mayor’s Office of City Legislative Affairs where she staffed Land Use Committee hearings and prepared agencies to testify before Council on the migrant crisis. Shannon holds a B.A. in Political Science and a certificate in Education Studies from Yale University. 

• Daria Guzzo

  Daria Guzzo is a Policy and Communications Graduate Researcher at the Furman Center. Daria is working towards her Masters of Public Administration in Public and Nonprofit Management and Policy at NYU Wagner where she is a Georgina and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Service Fellow. Daria formerly worked in the Washington, DC region as an Equitable Development Manager at Capital Impact Partners, a national nonprofit community development financial institution (CDFI). Prior to Capital Impact, she worked for a boutique affordable housing development and property management firm on the south side of Chicago. Daria holds a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from Grinnell College.

• Nick Hardiman

  Nick Hardiman is a research assistant for Furman Center Faculty Director Vicki Been. Nick is currently a second-year student at NYU School of Law. Nick spent this past summer working in securities litigation at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Enforcement. Prior to law school, Nick spent five years as an investor at a growth stage technology investment firm. Nick received a B.B.A. in Finance and Constitutional Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 2017.

• Will Haskell

  Will Haskell is a research assistant for Furman Center Faculty Director Vicki Been. Haskell is currently a student at NYU Law. Prior to coming to NYU, Haskell represented the 26th District in the Connecticut State Senate for two terms and served as the Senate Chairman of the Transportation Committee. He received his B.A. from Georgetown University and is the author of 100,000 First Bosses from Simon and Schuster. 

• Isabel Hellman

  Isabel Hellman is a second-year student at NYU School of Law. Prior to law school, Isabel worked as an advocate with the Legal Wellness Institute at The Family Center, where she supported low-income clients facing chronic illness and disability in accessing dignified housing and safety net benefits. Isabel received her B.A. in Human Rights from Columbia University. 

• Ben Hitchcock

  Ben Hitchcock is a second-year MPA student at NYU Wagner. He is interested in the connection between urban policy and climate, as well as the role the media and communications play in urban policy-making. Before starting at NYU, he was the editor of C-VILLE Weekly, the local newspaper in his hometown of Charlottesville, Virginia. His writing about land use and housing has been published in The Washington Post, City Limits, and more. He is currently the editor of Wagner’s student-run policy journal, The Wagner Review. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 2019. 

• Cameron Hub

  Cameron Hub is a second-year student at NYU School of Law interested in land use, urban policy, and tenants' rights issues. This summer, he will be working as an intern with Bronx Legal Services' Housing Unit. Before coming to NYU, he studied tenant purchase programs and affordable housing development in Washington, DC. He graduated from Seattle University in 2019.

• Masaaki Kato

  Masaaki is a data office assistant at the NYU Furman Center. He graduated with a Data Science and Psychology double major at the NYU College of Arts & Science. He is interested in evictions, foreclosures, and sustainability.

• Junyi Li

  Junyi Li is a graduate data researcher at the NYU Furman Center. Junyi is currently a student at NYU School of Tandon studying  applied urban science and informatics. She is interested in using data analysis to support better city policy like affordable housing and urban disaster prevention. Prior to engineering school, Junyi received a B.Arch. in Tongji University.

• John Overstreet

  John is a second-year student at NYU School of Law and the Treasurer of the school’s Real Estate and Urban Policy Forum for 2023-2024. He is interested in the potential of land use policy reforms to alleviate housing affordability crises in New York City and other metro areas. John received a B.A. in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College in 2018 and worked for several years as a paralegal at a firm specializing in employment-based immigration law.

• Eva Phillips

  Eva is a first-year Master of Urban Planning student and Georgina and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Service Fellow. She is interested in understanding the impact of housing and community development initiatives on neighborhood- and resident-level outcomes, such as upward mobility and neighborhood change. Previously, Eva worked as a Senior Data Analyst at Enterprise Community Partners where she contributed to the design and evaluation of housing and economic mobility programs across the country. Before moving to New York, she worked at the Urban Displacement Project on developing models to predict gentrification and displacement risk, and at the City of Oakland on efforts to increase transportation equity. Eva holds a B.A. in Urban Data Analytics from the University of California, Berkeley.

• Camille Preel-Dumas

  Camille Preel-Dumas is a Master of Public Administration candidate at NYU Wagner specializing in public policy analysis. Camille joins the Furman Center from MDRC, where she was a Technical Research Analyst in the Economic Mobility, Housing, and Communities policy area working on randomized controlled trials, impact evaluations, and descriptive analyses of projects in housing stability, mixed income communities, housing vouchers, and workforce training. She is interested in using data science, open data, and participatory research to improve urban policy and support local housing goals. Camille holds a BA in Political Science from McGill University.

• Henry Rodgers

  Henry is an office assistant at the NYU Furman Center. He is an undergraduate student studying Data Science and Economics at the NYU College of Arts & Science. He is interested in policy and research surrounding housing, land use, and transit-oriented development.

• Blake Salesin

  Blake Salesin is an Undergraduate Office Assistant at the NYU Furman Center. He is pursuing his B.A. in Politics and Peace & Conflict Studies from the College of Arts & Sciences at New York University and is entering his final year. Blake is interested in housing affordability and tenant’s rights, specifically centering around New York City’s migrant and asylum seeking communities.

• Ashleigh Stepanyan

  Ashleigh is an office assistant at the NYU Furman Center. She is currently studying Politics at the NYU College of Arts and Science and is pursuing a minor in Public Policy & Management jointly at NYU Wagner and NYU Stern. She is interested in real estate and plans on attending law school post graduation. 

• Will Viederman

  Will Viederman is a first-year Master of Public Administration student and Henry Hart Rice Urban Studies Fellow at NYU Wagner. He comes to Wagner from New Haven, CT, where he was the Housing Policy Manager for the Housing Authority of the City of New Haven and conducted research and spearheaded advocacy to increase housing production and lower rents across the city and state. Prior to his policy work he organized for DesegregateCT and ran electoral campaigns and field teams in Connecticut and Colorado. He is interested in the intersections of housing and economic development, particularly in how cities can improve policy and implementation to generate inclusive economic growth. He graduated from Yale University in 2017.

• Lulu Zhou

  Lulu Zhou is a first-year Master of Public Administration student (public policy analysis specialization) and Bloomberg Public Service Fellow at NYU Wagner. She is committed to catalyzing equitable economic development and community development in more communities through equity-centered practice and policy—particularly state and local policies. Before coming to NYU, she was a researcher at Interise (an economic development nonprofit), Harvard, and Stanford. Lulu holds a B.A. in Sociology and a minor in Education Studies from Middlebury College.

• Emily Zhu

  Emily is a second-year student at NYU School of Law, who is interested in affordable housing, anti-displacement strategies, and hopes to use their legal education to support grassroots organizing for housing and economic justice. This summer, Emily will be working as a legal intern with Abolitionist Law Center. Prior to law school, Emily supported grassroots tenant and worker organizing in Boston Chinatown. Emily graduated from Harvard College with a joint degree in Sociology and Statistics and a minor in Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights, and wrote their honors thesis on the carceral system as a site of health and environmental injustice.