Ana Paula Pimentel Walker (2021-2023)

Ana Paula Pimentel Walker is an associate professor in urban planning at the University of Michigan. She investigates how disenfranchised communities engage with urban governance and evaluates the significance of participatory institutions in planning socially and environmentally just cities. Her research aims to amplify the voices of informal dwellers, migrants, and ethnic minorities in the planning process, while co-producing strategies that defy inequalities and institutional racism. To achieve these goals, the action-oriented component of her research focuses on advancing community organizing, capacity building, and access to justice. She teaches courses in participatory planning, planning law, international service-learning studios, housing policy, and environmental planning. Pimentel Walker has a PhD in anthropology, Masters in urban planning and Latin American studies, and a law degree.

Contact: appiment@umich.edu