Urban Planning with Desiree Powell

Desiree “Dee” Powell is an Arlington, Texas native where she graduated from the University of Texas at Arlington with her Bachelors in Interdisciplinary Studies and Masters in City & Regional Planning. She is an urban planner/place curator currently working for a national non-profit and is the founder of her own urban planning and design firm, DRBTS (Do Right By The Streets), which focuses on place keeping as a tool to implement temporary-to-permanent space activation projects in communities of color. DRBTS also specializes in educating and introducing the complexities of urban planning elements (land use, zoning, etc.) and its impact in communities of color.