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Sara Bronin

Professor, College of Architecture, Art, & Planning and Associated Faculty Member, Law School at Cornell University
J.D. 2006
Sara Bronin

Sara Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, and policymaker specializing in property, land use, historic preservation, and climate change.  She is a professor of planning and law at Cornell University and has served as a visiting professor at the Yale School of Architecture, the Sorbonne in Paris, and universities in Switzerland and Korea.  She has advised the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Sustainable Development Code, served on the board of Latinos in Heritage Conservation and founded Desegregate Connecticut.  She was educated at Yale Law School (Truman Scholar), Oxford (Rhodes Scholar), and the University of Texas.  She is the author of the forthcoming book, Key to the City

Bronin received bachelor degrees in architecture and Plan II from UT-Austin, an M.Sc. from Oxford (as a Rhodes Scholar), and a law degree from Yale (as a Truman Scholar).