Urban Studies

Ceara O’Leary graduated from Brown in 2006 and went on to earn Masters degrees in Architecture and City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2010-2011, Ceara was the inaugural Public Design Intern at the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio in Biloxi, Mississippi, where she worked on community design and development projects in collaboration with local stakeholders along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She subsequently worked as a Community Designer with bcWORKSHOP, setting up an office in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and contributing to a community-based planning project in colonias across Hidalgo and Cameron Counties. Ceara is now a Senior Project Manager at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC), where she held the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship from 2012-2014. At DCDC, Ceara has worked on a range of community design and development projects, including citywide planning processes, neighborhood-scale ecodistricts, corridor revitalization projects and community gathering spaces.