Emmanuel Pratt is an urban designer creating a model of resident-driven community development in neighborhoods that have suffered the effects of long-term disinvestment. Pratt is co-founder and executive director of the Sweet Water Foundation (SWF), a nonprofit organization based on Chicago’s South Side that engages local residents in the cultivation and regeneration of social, environmental, and economic resources in their neighborhoods.
Emmanuel received a BArch from Cornell University and an MSAUD (Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design) from Columbia University. From 2011 to 2019, he served as the director of aquaponics at Chicago State University, and he was the Charles Moore Visiting Professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan until 2019. In 2016, he was named a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Emmanuel is also a visiting lecturer in the Environmental and Urban Studies Program at the University of Chicago and a 2019 MacArthur Fellow.
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