Gabrielle Coleman
Visiting Assistant Professor - Kansas State University School of Architecture, Planning, & Design

Gabby Coleman is an interdisciplinary designer, planner, and artist who serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Kansas State University, where she teaches undergraduate design studios and graduate seminars on community engagement and participatory design. Her research focuses on spatial issues across building, neighborhood, and city scales, investigating urban justice topics like placemaking, informal social networks, health inequities, and community resilience in the face of gentrification. She holds a Master of Architecture degree and Minor in Leadership Studies from Kansas State University, plus a Master of Science in Urban Planning with concentrations in Built Environment and Community + Economic Development from Columbia University, where her graduate research examined the intersection of place attachment and cultural displacement. Before her academic career, she worked as a junior architect on learning environments at Hollis + Miller Architects in Kansas City, MO, and she continues her practice as a visual artist working in acrylics and watercolors, with her portrait series "more than a color" on permanent display at K-State's Morris Family Multicultural Student Center.