Maina Wachira
Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning
Maina Wachira is a PhD student in Urban and Regional Planning from Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago and an M.S. in Applied Quantitative Methods and Social Analysis (with a concentration in Computational Social Science) from Northeastern University.
He is interested in digital urbanism, critical approaches to data and technology, and planning theory. This currently involves examining how civil society organizations and citizen groups come to develop technological practices that break with prevailing models of ‘smart’ urbanism.
Prior to his graduate studies, Maina worked in Nairobi, Kenya, as a research and analytics manager, where his interests were stimulated by close contact with an interdisciplinary body of African academics.
