Fellow Profile

Carey Clouse

“One of my major goals for this fellowship is to help build bridges between community groups, neighborhoods, grassroots organizations, universities, students and professionals. So many different people are working on the rebuilding effort in this city, and it only makes sense that these entities connect to share resources, ideas and support.”

— Carey Clouse

Fellowship Host:
Providence Community Housing
New Orleans, LA

Carey Clouse enjoys debunking the myth that affordable housing can’t be green and good looking, as well. “At Providence Community Housing, I’m working to make green building practices a reality for the thousands of new units of affordable housing that this organization will build in New Orleans,” says Carey. “During my fellowship, I have helped to integrate sustainable building products into housing developments, shared ideas and resources with contractors and community members, and even applied for green building grants.”

These varied tasks have called on all of Carey’s talents. “As a Rose Fellow, I get to straddle many different roles each day. My work here includes education, housing design, project management, fundraising, grant writing—the full range of development logistics. I love being able to participate in these different facets of housing development because it affords me an opportunity to help link people and ideas.”

Well equipped for these challenges, Carey earned her bachelor’s in architecture from the University of Oregon, and completed a post-professional degree in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In addition, she has worked as an architectural designer in the San Francisco Bay Area and has taught architecture and outdoor education at Tulane University, MIT, the National Outdoor Leadership School and the University of Oregon. Her professional credits range from developing community design processes for multifamily co-housing projects to greening affordable senior housing.

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