Lara Brown
Lara Brown is a writer turned urbanist, who is interested in how the built environment affects and influences human behaviour. Having completed a master’s degree in Urban Planning from the University of Melbourne, where she wrote a thesis on how carers of disabled people experience the built environment, she now works as the outreach and communications manager at the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN). She serves on the City of Melbourne’s newly formed Design Excellence Advisory Committee as a community member, where she advocates for an inclusive, accessible, and equitable built environment, especially as this relates to disabled people and their carers. Lara hails from the United States and spent ten years in Chicago before making Melbourne her home.