Lydia Collins

Program Manager
Change Stories Fellowship and Study Abroad, University of Washington and Federal University of Minas Gerais

Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2026

Graphic Anthropologist
Change Stories, University of Washington

Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Bogotá, Colombia; Belfast, Northern Ireland
2024 - present

Adjunct Lecturer

College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago

Chicago, IL

2024 - present

Urban Planner
Buildings + Places, AECOM

Chicago, IL

2023 - 2024

Project Development Associate
IFF Community Development Financial Institution

Chicago, IL

2019 - 2022

Graduate Fellow
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Community Land Trust 
Boston, MA

2018

Tisch Fellow
Somerville Community Corporation

Somerville, MA                                                                    

2017

Urban Planning Intern
City of Evanston

Evanston, IL

2015-2016

Project Supervisor
Amigos de Las Americas
Cocle, Panama
2014

Microfinance Fellow
Global Citizen Year
Ibarra, Ecuador

2012-2013