Nupur Chaudhury

Nupur Chaudhury is a New York–based public health urbanist that looks at cities, communities, and connections through a grassroots lens. A transdisciplinary expert on spatial innovation and healthy communities in historically disinvested communities, she works to develop and implement strategies to support residents, communities, and neighborhoods challenge power structures to build just, strong, and equitable cities. She is also the CEO of ioby (ioby.org), an online civic crowdfunding platform that focuses on connecting local leaders with support and funding to make their neighborhoods better places to live. She lectures, teaches and moderates discussions on health equity, building healthy communities, and centering residents in space and place.

Nupur Chaudhury 's Posts

The Dark Matter Issue
Building Relationships to Design Spatial Justice

by Samendy Brice, Albert Chao, Nupur Chaudhury , Jerome Haferd, A.L. Hu

Dark Matter U's work with the Gowanus community Brooklyn, N.Y., resulted in a Neighborhood Design Fellowship in which residents "participated in workshops that centered community knowledge and visioning of goals and objectives for collective spaces."
The Dark Matter Issue
Poly Particles: Dark Matter U In Conversation

by Dark Matter U

Read excerpts from the design justice network in conversation, as collected in May 2023.
The Game Changers Issue
Nupur Chaudhury Imagines Public Health as a Matter of the Built Environment

by Anjulie Rao

Working alongside Dark Matter University, the urbanist and health-equity expert helped launch a curriculum that trains communities to lead their own design processes.