City Forum: Marla Torrado

Marla Torrado holds a Ph.D. in Community and Regional planning from The University of Texas at Austin. Her interests focus on community planning, planning research, and equitable planning practices. Dr. Torrado has worked in a variety of community planning projects alongside national and international communities for more than 10 years, and currently is a Housing Division Manager for the Housing Department’s Displacement Prevention Division at the City of Austin.

City Forum is a planning and urban issues speaker series coordinated by the UT School of Architecture's Community and Regional Planning program. The series is intended to provide a space for open, critical dialogue regarding crucial planning-related issues in Austin and elsewhere, and to encourage discussion of diversity, multiple publics, and social change.

All participants are welcome. Lunch will be provided; first-come, first-served.