Jocelyn Poe

Inspired by her work as a community planner and resident of Mississippi, Jocelyn’s work is grounded in black places as sites of struggle, resistance, and care. She is a community planner, organizer, and theorist driven by the need to understand the interplay between how places hurt and heal and the role planners and other place workers have in facilitating collective healing. Her work resonates with critical issues of justice and equity, which shape our cities and are deeply relevant to the planning field and its past, present, and future.

These experiences inform her research as she applies theory to practice in order to build a reparative praxis framework that seeks more just futures. Jocelyn engages in remixed methodologies that require transdisciplinary and creative approaches. As an educator, she teaches reparative methodologies and theories and is excited about building practical reparative strategies for future generations of planners and place workers.

Poe is the Director of the Reparative Praxis Lab and the founder and principal of SaHA Planning Studio, LLC. She earned a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development at the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. She also has a Bachelor of Architecture from the Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Sciences at Tuskegee University and a Master of Community Planning from Auburn University.