He then moved to Brooklyn, NY, to work for the New York City municipal government. In 2021, he began his Master in Urban Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD).

Currently a second-year student, he is also a researcher with the Just City Lab and a writer for the Journal of the American Planning Association. His commitment to issues of affordable housing was solidified this past summer when he worked for the New York City Housing Authority and he maintains the belief that all design, especially of affordable housing, must be sensitive to context, policy, and community.

He was a selected scholar at the Norman Foster Foundation Cities: Affordable Housing Workshop 2022 supported by the Holcim Foundation.