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Kai

Okazaki

Bio and CV

Biography

Kai Okazaki brings a social equity lens to his planning practice, allowing to foster critical and collaborative innovations for bettering communities and cities in his work. He is a recipient of the Canadian Institute of Planning President's Scholarship for his Capstone on evaluating digital planning tools for inclusive planning practices in Canada's largest 10 immigrant cities. In addition, Kai has been awarded as the Faculty of Applied Science's Rising Stars, received the Design & Innovation Faculty Award for his project in New Westminster on industrial-residential design guidelines in the Queensborough Neighbourhood, and a MITACS Accelerate recipient to support social dimensions and city design of climate change planning.

Scholarships and Awards

Planning Studio Faculty Award (2018) - Interfaces: A Site Study of Queensborough
Faculty of Applied Science Rising Stars (2018)
Rose Richmond Memorial Bursary (2017)
Canadian Institute of Planning President's Scholarship (2017)
Mitacs Accelerate Recipient (2017)

Related Work Experience

Social Planner - City Of Burnaby
Regional Social Planner (Senior Planner) - City of Powell River, qathet Regional District, and Tla'amin Nation

Teaching Assistantships CONS 200 - Visualizing Cimate Change (Dr. Stephen Sheppard)

Personal Website https://ca.linkedin.com/in/kaiokazaki

Supervisors

Supervisors Maged Senbel