Ashley Kopetzky

Ashley Kopetzky is a Ph.D. candidate in City and Regional Planning. Her dissertation, Speculation and the Social Life of Vacancy in Seattle’s Third Places, examines how vacancy is produced through speculation typologies, displacement, and uneven development, and how communities and ecologies respond through care, memory, and everyday actions. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Washington State University and a Master’s in Architecture with a Technical Teaching Certificate from the University of Oregon. Her other professional work includes management in restaurants, wine education, and ceramics. When she is not studying, she enjoys cycling, yoga, fiber art, and reading novels written and translated by women into English (ask her for a recommendation!).