Lena D. Phillips is an urban and spatial practitioner whose work explores the intersections of justice, liberation, land, housing, and law. Her practice is grounded in feminist, anti-colonial, transnational, and anti-racist frameworks.
Through her work, Lena has supported grassroots and systems change initiatives led by and for Black, Indigenous, and African communities in Canada and East Africa. She has also worked on projects that used design, creative technology, and artistic practice as tools of protest.
Her graduate studies in the UK and South Africa focused on urban development and planning, with a particular emphasis on land, housing, and property. She is currently in her final year at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, where she has deepened her commitment to public interest work.
Lena views BPP as a vital space for reshaping planning practices and building more inclusive, resilient communities. She is motivated by the opportunity to contribute to a platform that amplifies a diversity of Black perspectives in urban development and challenges oppressive structures in spatial and city planning.