Jiwon Park, AICP

Department: Land Use
Email: [email protected]

Biography:

Jiwon joined MAPC in 2023 as a Regional Land Use Planner II. In this role, she supports various projects on housing, climate resilience, and site planning.

Prior to joining MAPC, Jiwon earned a master’s degree in urban planning from Harvard University. During graduate school, she worked on various projects related to climate resilience, healthy cities, and affordable housing development. She was a fellow at the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, where she worked on developing strategies to expand social services for the unhoused in the City of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. She wrote her master’s thesis about the dynamics around land use decisions on vacant lots after flooding, based on the case study of Princeville, North Carolina.

Areas of Expertise: community and land use planning, municipal resiliency and adaptation, zoning, affordable housing development