the founding members, allison duncan, katrina johnston, and jason king, make up the current executive committee and bring a range of experience in urban design research, landscape architecture, urban ecology, public space, and social science, combining academic rigor with creative expression.
allison.duncan | allison@thinkurban.org
Allison is a PhD student in urban studies at Portland State University focusing on active transportation and public space. She received her MLA from the University of Arizona and has worked on a broad assortment of project types including Master Planned Communities, cemeteries, and shopping centers as well as numerous native plant preservation projects. Currently she is working on a project on Complete Streets in conjunction with the National Complete Streets Coalition. When not doing urban design work, she loves to ride her bike or do agility with her dogs. She dreams of traveling to Madagascar.
katrina.johnston | katrina@thinkurban.org
Katrina is a masters student of urban studies at Portland State University focusing in public space. Before moving to Portland for her degree, she was finishing a BA in Anthropology and working on a research project at Arizona State University involving open space in ancient and contemporary cities around the world. Her major interests are human behavior in space, urban design, and quality of life through the built environment. Her favorite trip was touring Scandinavia for a summer. Aside from Anthropology she also has an academic background in Art History and Fine Arts. In her spare time she likes to paint and if she could live in any city it would be Copenhagen (though Portland is a close second).
jason.king | jason@thinkurban.org
Jason knows virtually everyone residing in Portland, Oregon. In fact, we’re currently working on marketing a game titled “Two Degrees of Jason King”. When he’s not acting social diplomat, he can be found working for his Landscape Architecture firm TERRA.fluxus making such things as living walls and food cart pods. Urban agriculture and green roofs are a particular passion of his as he attempts to create more sustainable urban environments. Jason dreams of excavating the hanging gardens of Babylon in order to recreate them in his backyard. As a second year PhD student in Urban Studies at Portland State University, he has a flawless record showing the rest of us up (while doing twice the work) with a 4.0 GPA. And as if that wasn’t enough, in his spare time he likes to polish his surfboard and hit the coast for some killer waves.
