Ana Paula Pimentel Walker

Ana Paula Pimentel Walker is an assistant professor in urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan. She investigates how disenfranchised communities engage with urban governance and evaluates the significance of participatory institutions in planning socially and environmentally just cities. Pimentel Walker’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies. She teaches graduate courses in participatory planning and community development, comparative housing, environmental planning, award-winning capstones, and comparative planning law. She received a PhD in anthropology from the University of California, San Diego, master's degrees in both urban planning and Latin American studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a law degree from Brazil.