SPRING 2025

In this section, I present a selection of my personal and academic projects, including highlights from my thesis work. These projects reflect my journey in architectural history and heritage conservation, showcasing my research, creativity, and dedication to preserving cultural narratives. 

Working in renowned HABS Photographer Stephen Schafer's Course, I familiarized myself with the mechanics of Digital Architectural Photography for documentation purposes. through this course I've mastered the use of Lightroom Classic, while gaining skillsets implemented in my final project, a Blurb professional grade photography book capturing sacred spaces throughout Southern California. 

Working in collaboration with the 2025 USC Masters of Heritage Conservation cohort, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the Los Angeles Conservancy, I helped produced the entire first amendment draft for Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #639, the Ruskin Art Club. This project was conducted under the Women's Landmarks Project, and initiative to introduce women's accomplishments into the existing historical narrative through a new amendment process. this practicum required intensive research into the women's context of Los Angeles, organizational skills, collaborative mindset, and historical research and documentation skill sets to properly advocated for the needed added significance to existing designations. This project came into fruition in a Mock Heritage Commission Meeting, where we presented our findings as preservationists and requested the amendment. The Ruskin Art Club received a Unanimous approval for the amendment. 

Through Peyton Hall's Methods and Materials Class, we volunteered at Pacoima's Historic Mission Baptist Church Where we did a variety of condition reporting exercises for the institution. Through our work we compiled a series of photographs to serve as documentation of exterior and interior existing conditions, we then offered treatment recommendations per the Secretary of the Interior Standards. 

Combing expertise in the field of Urban Planning and Historic Preservation, I created a Preservation Plan for Fontana, California. This plan seeks to evaluate and designate Fontana's First Historic District which has been advocated for by its local residents. Through this project I centralize the War-time labor and post war history of the city, and highlight its community building patterns as a statement of historic significance of its first tract housing project, Fontana Plaza. I offer solutions for the compatibility of Historic Preservation with continued development and growth, and speak of the benefits of designation.