Ben joined RODE’s design team in 2021, bringing his knowledge and experience in institutional and urban design to the firm. He has worked to realize mission-based projects like the Dorchester Fieldhouse, and socially just housing like the affordable elderly housing at the Hill Memorial Baptist Church.Ben has a passion for design that uplifts and empowers marginalized communities by telling meaningful stories about culture through the co-creation of spaces. He is working to design space for joy instead of barriers to it - to arrive at a collective vision for future homes, parks, neighborhoods, community centers, and cities.What makes space just, healthy, and empowering to as many people as possible? Ben is using this question as a guide to design solutions that address systemically rooted spatial and social injustices, and encourage people to dismantle the power structures that caused them.