Shin-pei Tsay is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment.
Shin-pei Tsay was a nonresident associate in the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focuses on urban and regional planning issues, particularly in relation to transportation, economic development, energy, and climate change policy.
Prior to joining the Carnegie Endowment, Tsay served as the deputy director of Transportation Alternatives, a nationally renowned nonprofit organization focused on transportation issues in New York City; a founding member of the New York City office for ZGF architects, where she was on the sustainability team; the chief operating officer of Project for Public Spaces, an international nonprofit; and a strategy consultant with a group that served Fortune 500 companies.
Most recently she contributed to New York City’s Street Design Manual, New York City’s Active Living Design Guidelines, and New York state’s Livable Communities Manual. She also co-founded Planning Corps, an organization that matches urban planners with community-based projects, for which her work will be exhibited in the U.S. pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale for Architecture.
She has been interviewed and quoted by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR’s Marketplace as well as other local and industry publications, and she is a sought-after speaker. She was a finalist in the international design competition “Reinventing Grand Army Plaza,” for which her work is published in the monograph. Tsay is a LEED-accredited professional and also reviews books for the Urban Design Forum’s quarterly journal, Urban Design Review.
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