Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman is an American urban anthropologist. She co-founded The Women Led Cities Initiative. She was named to 2019 100 Women (BBC). [1] [2]
Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman is an American urban anthropologist. She co-founded The Women Led Cities Initiative. She was named to 2019 100 Women (BBC). [1] [2]
She graduated from Arizona State University, and Portland State University.
She studies human behavior in public space. [3] She is an lecturer at Drexel University. [4] [5] She is guest lecturer at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. [6] She led a Women Led Cities Initiative project for Philadelphia. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
Her work appeared in Next City, [12] and op-ed appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer . [13]
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