Kayla Montes de Oca is a designer, researcher, and educator from Miami, Florida based in Brooklyn, New York. Her research examines how residents sustain tradition and build legacy while understanding how policy and design decisions impact communities over time. This work includes examining how the meaning of home is reconfigured in the changing city through the history of New York City Housing Authority complexes and exploring public memory through land use and zoning of New York City cemeteries. She has also conducted research at the Radcliffe Institute mapping genealogical connections of enslaved people in the North.
 
Kayla has worked in curation and programming through Artist Space and Storefront for Art and Architecture. She is also involved in bringing architectural education to younger audiences as a Design Educator at the Center for Architecture and a Teaching Artist through Young Audiences New York.
 
Kayla received her B.Arch from Cooper Union and has a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

Kayla's CV is available here.