Amy Stelly is an artist, designer, planner and freeway fighter. Her scope of work includes building and open space design, historic restoration, downtown and neighborhood revitalization, environmental planning, municipal zoning, incentives, entitlements, site planning, streetscapes and gardens. She is a co-founder of the Claiborne Avenue Alliance, a neighborhood advocacy group, and the founder and director of the Claiborne Avenue Alliance Design Studio, a non-profit studio that makes design and land use accessible to the everyman. Amy edits the opinions column for The Lens, a New Orleans-based nonprofit, nonpartisan public-interest newsroom. And she is a contributor to the recently published Justice and the Interstates.

Learn more about the work Amy is involved in at her website!