MOLLY ROSE KAUFMAN (Co-Exec Director), is a Co-Founder of the University of Orange. She began her work in restoration urbanism at the Cities Research Group in the 1990s. Prior to the launch of UofO, she worked as a journalist and youth media producer. She loves exploring Orange with locals and visitors alike and frequently can …
AUBREY MURDOCK (Co-exec Director) is an artist, urbanist and educator based in Orange, New Jersey. Her interdisciplinary practice utilizes drawing, painting, video, sound, installation, curricula, and social practice. Murdock scrutinizes the phrase “there is nothing there” and the role this myth plays in structures of inequity. Her current work centers her home state of Wyoming …
MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE, MD, University of Orange Board President, is a social psychiatrist and professor of urban policy and health at The New School. Prior to joining the New School in 2016, she worked for 26 years as a research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and was a professor of clinical psychiatry …
DOUGLAS FARRAND (Co-Director of Music City program) is a composer, musician, and educator concerned with developing practices that invite us to explore our myriad processes of listening and embody a collective investigation of place, community, and personhood. He works in contexts including experimental music, youth education, and the application of sound and listening practices to …
HOLLY BARSZCZ is a geographer, organizer and the UofO administrative manager. She began her work in Orange in our inaugural class of 2016 HUUB Fellows and returned the following year to serve as a Senior Fellow. As a HUUB Fellow she launched the ongoing Building Solidarity Potluck Series where community members come together to share …
Aditi Nair, a designer at University of Orange and senior specialist, community practice and strategy at Habitat International, is an urban planner and architect with more than six years of experience focusing on stakeholder collaboration in the planning and development of sustainable housing solutions that reflect asset-based community development and centers social justice. Aditi advocates …
Jacqueline Castañeda is a researcher and urban strategist specializing in urban design, infrastructures and public policy. She has an academic background in architecture and a master’s degree in Design and Urban Ecologies at Parsons School of Design, The New School. She worked as a strategist and designer for different institutions of the Mexican government, in …
Nupur is a public health urbanist who looks at cities, communities and connections through a grassroots lens. A bridge builder and translator in the fields of urban planning and public health, she has developed and implemented strategies to support residents, communities, and neighborhoods challenge power structures to build just, strong, and equitable cities. She has led …
