Petra Kempf, PhD. is an architect, urban designer, and educator. She has worked at institutions within the public and private sector, including the NYC Department of City Planning, the Project for Public Spaces, and Richard Meier & Partners. In 2019 she joined the Sam Fox of School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where she works closely with the Center for the Humanities on the Divided City Initiative. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, institutions and museums in the United States and Europe and has been featured in multiple publications. She is the author of You are the City (2009) and (K)ein Ort Nirgends, Der Transitraum im urbanen Netzwerk (2010).