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Norhan Abdelgawad

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Norhan Abdelgawad is a PhD student in Urban Affairs and Planning in the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. She has an Urban Planning Analytics certificate from Virginia Tech. Her research interests lie in the intersection of art, urban planning and design, environmental psychology, and data analytics. Her dissertation is focused on leveraging crowdsourced and open-source data to evaluate spatial justice in the allocation of cultural resources in Los Angeles. Norhan has a Bachelor of Science in Architecture Engineering from The American University in Cairo and a Master of Science in Architectural Computation from University College London, where she specialized in data and computational design. Norhan has worked as a Landscape Architect and Urban Designer for six years on major mega projects in the Middle East and North Africa region.  Complementing her academic endeavors, Norhan's passion for art is grounded in her experience as a freelance installation artist.