Emily Ahn Levy

Emily Ahn Levy 안은옥 (they/them, she/her) is an educator and cultural organizer based in Lenapehoking / New York City for more than 20 years. Their practice is situated at the intersections of community arts and culture, social justice and the public realm. As a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Urban Placemaking & Management graduate program at Pratt Institute, Emily has been awarded the Taconic Fellowship alongside the Bangladeshi Ladies Club and the inaugural DEI Faculty Fellowship where they created a social justice resource library guide for department faculty. Most recently Emily has been awarded the Faculty Development Fund in support of their book project exploring transcultural placemaking by and for Korean-born adopted people. As a transnational adopted person, Emily studied Korean language and Urban Design at Seoul National University. Emily is a graduate of Pratt Institute with both a Bachelor of Architecture and Master of Science in Urban Placemaking & Management.

Emily has curated and produced more than 100 public programs, peer exchanges, and place-based events with Arts & Democracy and Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts NY (NOCD-NY). Funded by the National Endowment of the Arts, Emily directed a social practice artist-in-residence program across five parks in New York City with ArtBuilt Mobile Studio, Queens Museum and NYC Parks. As a member of the American Planning Association New York Metro Area’s Diversity Committee, Emily co-curated and produced the Hindsight Conference, an annual convening focused on equity in planning. Emily was also a member-owner of artist collective The Illuminator, organized with KQTx, and they currently organize with Angry Asian Womxn. Emily is on the Board of Directors of Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership in their neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

B.Arch. Architecture, Pratt Institute; M.S. Urban Placemaking & Management, Pratt Institute.