About
Meet Lakeshia Wright.
An accomplished urban planner, geographer, and educator whose work bridges spatial justice, place-based learning, and inclusive design.
AICP · MCIP-I · PMP
Lakeshia Wright, AICP, MCIP-I, PMP
The geographer behind the studio
Where geography, data, and power intersect to shape opportunity.
Lakeshia Wright is an accomplished urban planner, geographer, and educator whose work bridges spatial justice, place-based learning, and inclusive design.
With over 15 years of experience advancing equity in planning, policy, and community engagement, she brings deep expertise in how geography, data, and power intersect to shape opportunity—and how systems can be reimagined through thoughtful design and public education.
Space is not place. The difference between the two is who a plan was built to hold — and that is the question she starts every project with.
Award-winning, three ways
One practitioner, three disciplines that rarely share a room.
The geography informs the planning. The planning is taught. The teaching sends it back out into the world.
An award-winning geographer
Recognized for reading places the way the people who live in them do — where reach, friction, and memory decide who a plan actually serves.
An award-winning professor
Place-based learning and public education as craft: turning spatial empathy into a practice that outlasts any single project.
An award-winning urban planner
Fifteen-plus years advancing equity in planning, policy, and community engagement — where geography, data, and power meet.
Credentials
The letters after the name are the accountability.
American Institute of Certified Planners
The professional standard for practicing planners.
Canadian Institute of Planners
Cross-border practice, on both sides of the map.
Project Management Professional
The discipline to phase it, fund it, and finish it.
Remember
The experts already live there.
Lakeshia’s work starts from a conviction that a plan is only as good as its reach — and that the people a place was built to exclude are the ones who can tell you how to include them.
Work with Lakeshia.
Tell us about the site, the community, and the decision you are trying to get right.