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A former attorney, her background adds a criticality to her architectural analyses.  Neena’s work has appeared broadly, most recently in Architectural Research Quarterly and International Journal of Education in Architecture and Design; she is currently writing a book about immigrants finding place.  Her collaborative work has been presented before the Venice Biennale and Buenos Aires Biennale. Her first built work was completed as an architecture graduate student with Tulane’s UrbanBuild program. A recipient of the John William Lawrence Travel Fellowship, she has studied slum architecture in India.  She was an invited participant to the American Institute of Architects Emerging Professionals Summit and the Practice Symposium at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. 

Neena holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Rutgers Law School and Tulane School of Architecture.  She has worked in the architecture offices of KieranTimberlake, Peter Marino, and Studio Mapos. She is currently the Architecture Writing Fellow at The Cooper Union, Faculty at The School of Constructed Environments at Parsons The New School and New Jersey School of Architecture (NJIT), and Principal of an eponymous practice that pursues small-scale, forward-thinking architectural works. Her architecture office is a certified Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise in New York City.