Andreina Seijas J.

Principal | Specialist, Night-Time Urban Planing

Dr. Andreina Seijas is a Venezuelan researcher and international consultant with 15+ years of experience in urban development and policy in Latin America and the United States. Through her doctoral studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2017-2020) she specialized in night-time governance and planning and launched Night Tank, an international consulting firm that focuses on this novel field of research and practice.

Previously, Andreina worked for international organizations focused on urban strategy and international development such as Gehl, IdenCity, the Housing and Urban Development Division at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Americas Society/ Council of the Americas. Before leaving Venezuela, she also worked as Information Manager for the municipality of Chacao in Caracas. From an academic perspective, Andreina has taught urban planning and night-time governance courses at Harvard College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design (Cambridge), the Urban School at Sciences Po (Paris), the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London (London), and IAAC—the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (Barcelona).

Andreina has a Communications degree from Universidad Catolica Andres Bello, an MSc in Social Policy and Development from the London School of Economics, a Master in Public Administration and Non-Profit management from New York University, and a Doctor of Design (DDes) degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is also the recipient of several awards, including the Chevening and Fulbright Scholarships, the P.E.O. International Peace Scholarship and the Lawrence H. and Marla G. Curtis Fellowship Fund.

Her TEDx talk and publications are available on her website: www.andreinaseijas.com

Contact her at aseijas@night-tank.org

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Watch her TEDx Talk here.