Laura Wainer is an architect and urban planner from Argentina, currently serving as an assistant professor at the City College of New York, CUNY. Her work focuses on the intersection between housing policy, design politics, and urban governance. In Argentina, Laura co-founded the Colectivo Urbano, an interdisciplinary group of practitioners and academics dedicated to providing design and planning solutions to underserved municipalities in the country. Laura holds a Ph.D. specializing in Urban Sociology from the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master's degree in International Development from The New School.