Valérie Lechêne

Val cultivates strategic impact across the Urban Systems Lab as Assistant Director of Operations and Communications. A systems designer, researcher, and strategist, she leverages experience across the built environment, product and innovation design, geospatial data visualization, ecological regeneration, housing, land use, public policy, and grassroots organizing. Val served as Advancement Director of the Earthshot Institute (now Collaborative Earth), a climate tech nonprofit centered on open science for planetary regeneration. She also drove multipronged systemic change in her formative field of architecture with the Architecture Lobby. Val’s coauthored book, ‘The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education,’ will publish in spring 2024 with Routledge. She shaped her capabilities through a Bachelor of Science at McGill University and a Master of Architecture at Columbia University. Val is native of France with global experience.