Aïcha Woods

Aïcha S. Woods is a Lecturer and the Urban Program Manager at Yale School of the Environment, supporting the Yale Urban Initiative, the Climate and Urban Learning Communities at YSE and the joint degree with the School of Architecture. Aïcha has expertise in sustainable and climate resilient design, urban planning, affordable housing, and community engagement. Aicha directed Fairfield County’s Center for Housing Opportunity at the Housing Collective and consulted on affordable housing development. Aicha led the City of New Haven’s Department of Planning, including spearheading infrastructure and resilience projects and zoning reform. She trained as an architect at UC Berkeley and at Yale School of Architecture (MArch 1, ’97). As a senior associate with Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, she worked on major urban projects around the world and the US including in Ho Chi Minh City, Liverpool, Los Angeles and Minneapolis.