Niva is an urban designer at MUD Workshop where she is assisting with the delivery of open space and long-range planning projects. Some of these include the Penn Community Led Improvement Plan, Concept for the Morse School Playground in Sleepy Hollow, and the East Harlem Revitalization Plan, NY. Trained as an architect in Mumbai and an urban designer at the Pratt Institute, she has great appreciation of details at both, the site and urban scales. Niva has a keen interest in enhancing the quality of the urban public realm through participatory design and planning