Master's in Urban & Regional Planning
Radhika Mohan

Radhika Mohan serves on the faculty of the Urban & Regional Planning program and is a Design Manager at Gensler in Washington, DC.

People, Prosperity, and Place are Radhika's personal and professional north stars and have guided her urban planning and design career since I started over 20 years ago. As a Design Manager in Gensler's Cities and Urban Design Practice, she works on complex city-building projects at home and across the globe. Radhika leads teams of talented designers in planning work ranging from new, transit-oriented communities to regional plans for cities looking to achieve prosperity for people.

She has a keen sense of relationship dynamics that have led her to client-and-community-facing roles, where she gets to work with people who are spearheading urban development opportunities and those that are most impacted by planning efforts. Radhika brings a unique perspective to any urban project having worked on multiple facets of urban development from city planning departments, a national housing non-profit, and a local real estate developer to the global city and urban design practice at Gensler.

Prior to Gensler, Radhika was a Senior Development Associate at Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners where she worked on mixed-use and mixed-income development projects in DC and Virginia. She has worked on all phases of development including acquisition, entitlements, preconstruction, construction administration, and close out. She has also worked as a Principal Planner for the City of Alexandria, Virigina and executed several neighborhood plans and related engagement processes. She began her post-graduate career at as a Senior Program Manager and Interim Director of the Mayors' Institute on City Design, where she worked with over 100 mayors on urban design projects.

In addition to her professional career, Radhika enjoys serving her community by participating on the Board of DC Central Kitchen for six years and now serving as the Vice President of Community Engagement for the Ben E. Murch Elementary School Home School Association.

Radhika holds a Master in City and Regional Planning and a Master in Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Minnesota.