Justin Garrett Moore

About Justin Garrett Moore

Justin Garrett Moore is the program director for the Humanities in Place program at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. His work focuses on advancing equity, inclusion, and social justice through place-based initiatives and programs, built environments, cultural heritage projects, and commemorative spaces and landscapes. He has extensive experience in architecture, planning, and design—from urban systems, policies, and building projects to grassroots and community-focused planning, design, preservation, public realm, and arts initiatives.With over fifteen years of public service with the City of New York, Mr. Moore has led several urban design and planning projects, including the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Waterfront, Hunter\'s Point South, and the Brooklyn Cultural District. From 2016 to 2020, he was the executive director of the New York City Public Design Commission, where he spearheaded initiatives to address social equity and sustainability through improved built environment design and public processes. His work spanned housing and community development, place and open space design, historic preservation, public art and monuments, and civic engagement.Mr. Moore holds a bachelor of design from the University of Florida and master of architecture and master of science in urban design degrees from Columbia University, where he now serves as an adjunct associate professor of architecture. He has also taught at Morgan State University, Tuskegee University, and the Yale School of Architecture. His professional affiliations include the American Institute of Certified Planners, the Urban Design Forum, and BlackSpace. In 2021, Moore received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture and was named to the United States Commission of Fine Arts by President Joseph Biden.

Experience

1. Program Director, Humanities in Place

   Mellon Foundation

   Jul 2023 — Present · New York, NY, US

Education

• University of Florida

  B. Design, architecture

  1997 — 2001

• Columbia University

  M.S., Architecture and Urban Design

  2003 — 2004

• Arlington High School (Indianapolis Public Schools)

  HS Diploma (Indiana Academic Honors)

  1993 — 1997

• Columbia University

  M.Architecture, Architecture

  2001 — 2004

Skills

• Urban Redevelopment
• Urban Design
• Sketchup
• Mixed-Use
• Social Enterprise
• Site Plans
• Redevelopment
• Gis
• Urbanism
• Zoning
• Social Design
• Leed Ap
• Landscape Architecture
• Current Affairs
• Sustainable Design
• Site Planning
• Community Design
• Cityscape
• Civic Engagement
• Sustainability
• Architectural Design
• Master Planning
• Green Building
• Public Space
• Site Design
• Indesign
• Sustainable Architecture
• Public Art
• Placemaking
• Urban
• Sustainable Development
• Architecture
• Comprehensive Planning
• Tactical Urbanism
• Adaptive Reuse
• Design Research
• Historic Preservation
• Urban Planning
• Land Use
• Streetscape