Sean Scott is…

an Urban Designer and Equity Planner whose mission is to foster interesting, responsive, and inclusive urban spaces. He co-founded WSP’s Equity Center of Excellence, a national services group he helped found to integrating equity into community and infrastructure projects by moderating and coordinating across disciplines of a project team – project management, planning, engineering, environmental, and public engagement – to align and deliver equitable project outcomes. His current role is Senior Equity Consultant and Urban Designer. Sean has national experience supporting complete streets, transit-oriented development, station area plans, technical assistance and capacity building, and zoning policy analysis through an equity lens

Sean previously served as Vice President of Committees for the APA NY Metro Chapter (2021-2022), and is a proud member of the APA New York Metro Chapter Diversity Committee, with whom he organized The Political and Social Capital Cost of Advancing Equity (2019), a panel discussion on the difficulties planners of color face in the workplace and how to overcome them, and helped to organize Hindsight 2019: A Planning Conference through an Equity Lens.

Before starting his career in New York, Sean graduated from the City and Regional Planning Master's program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, with a concentration in Urban Design. He received his Bachelor's degree from Brown University in 2016, with a concentration in Urban Studies and Computer Music. Sean is multi-racial and the first in his family to receive both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. 

Sean believes design is more than the space, object, or final product we aim to create or affect. Design is how we think about the people with whom we work , for whom we work, the people we assume to affect, and the steps we take to ensure our attitudes, processes, and design principles respect the humanity of those we aim to serve.