Kjersti Monson Duval-Arnould ’94
Making the World a Better Place Award 2007
Kjersti (Monson) Duval-Arnould ’94 is an urban designer with EDAW/AECOM in Atlanta, GA. After earning her MLA and MUP (distinction) from Harvard, she held a Fulbright Fellowship at Katholieke Universitat Leuven in Belgium, studying “Transnational Urbanism: Spatializing Global Practices in Public & Private Real Estate Development.” From 2004-2006, Kjersti lived in Shanghai and consulted on projects throughout urban and rural China. She was a 2006 Fellow of the Fudan University Center for Urban Studies, and contributed to organizing the Fudan University International Urban Forum in 2006. Her work has been published in AD (John Wiley & Sons, London), architectural journal 306090 (Princeton Architectural Press), and most recently a collected book of essays by Harvard Real Estate Chair Richard Peiser called Regenerating Older Suburbs (Urban Land Institute). She has served as a lecturer or design critic in urban design for Harvard University, Pratt, Parsons School of Design, Katholieke Universitat, AA (London), Fudan University, and Tongji University in Shanghai.