Romina Tafazzoli is from Tehran, Iran, and a graduate student at Iowa State University studying master of community and regional planning and GIS certificate. She has a bachelor’s degree in city planning and master’s degree in urban planning from university of Tehran. So far at Iowa State University, Romina has been a teaching assistant for two courses of Urban Analytic Methods and Housing Policy, and the research assistant for the Episodic Intergenerational Homelessness study. She has the experience of professional job from Iran, having the positions of urban transportation project advisor and idea developer at a private planning consultant company named ShahrAndishan.
“My dream is to bring academy and practice of planning closer to each other and use my academic knowledge in practice world. DSPG helped me to make my dream a reality”