Sabina Unni

Sabina is currently an Urban Planning graduate student at Columbia University’s GSAPP who loves everything about public programming and public stewardship. At Columbia, she spent the fall creating a priority metric for funding DOT Open Streets (which she presented at NYC’s Open Data week) and spent the spring working on a participatory street hierarchy for removing streets from the car network in Woodside and Maspeth.

Before that, she was a project assistant for Street Lab, working in community engagement for open streets in neighborhoods of color and developing a strong fondness for the plaza outside of the post office on Foch Boulevard and Rockaway Boulevard in Ozone Park.

As an Open Plans intern, Sabina created a report about School Streets using spatial analysis, community engagement, and qualitative research to understand how to create more loved open school streets. She continues that work as School Streets Coordinator.