MEET THE TEAM
As part of the University of Oklahoma’s Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, the Urban Design Studio prepares graduate students from diverse backgrounds in its Master of Urban Design program to practice as urban design professionals. The studio uses a reciprocal community engagement and service-learning approach that benefits cities and residents and provides students with meaningful educational experiences. The Studio regularly collaborates with communities on urban design studies and interventions.
SHAWN SCHAEFER
Director & Associate Professor
Shawn Michael Schaefer is a member of the faculty at the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma where he has led the Urban Design Studio and the Master of Urban Design program for the last twenty years. The studio's vision is to create a community of urban design professionals that speak a common language to serve Oklahoma and city dwellers everywhere.
Professor Schaefer is also a practicing architect and city planner with over thirty years of experience. His expertise includes urban design, campus planning for colleges and universities, student life projects, and health care architecture. Professor Schaefer's hobbies include piloting small aircraft, map collecting, and trying to play the drum kit.
CAMILA CORONADO
Graduate Student
Camila Coronado is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2019 to start living with her husband.
She has a Bachelor’s in Architecture from FADU (Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban planning) from the University of Buenos Aires. She always has been interested in Urban Design. Unfortunately, her undergraduate program only offered two courses in this area, and taking those courses left her wanting to know more. For this reason, she was very excited that the University of Oklahoma had a master’s Program dedicated to Urban Design and found the prospect of being able to study this area further to be an excellent opportunity.
Camila’s hobbies include drawing, reading, exercising, playing videogames and watching movies.
AUTUMN TILLER
Graduate Student
Autumn Tiller is a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she also happily resides. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design and Facility Management from Oklahoma State University–Stillwater in 2011.
Her background is varied—ranging from 3+ years of experience in signage design, to a year in facilities management, to a 5-year stint as a furniture dealership designer, and now she has added graduate student to the list. Outside of work, she is active in IIDA, enjoys baking, sharing her free time with her wife Glennda, their son Dev, and their two dogs Nugget and Poppy.
ROSHITA TAYLOR
Graduate Student
Roshita Taylor is from a Cleveland, Ohio suburb. She moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2009. She has an Associate’s in Fashion from the Virginia Marti College of Art and Design and a MBA in Marketing from American Inter-Continental University.
With experience in fashion,art, marketing design, she has always had an interest in using her talents and experience for good. She saw a flier for a graduate program to create communities and jumped on the opportunity to go to the University of Oklahoma for Urban Design.
Roshita’s hobbies include fashion, art, design, photography, traveling and watching documentaries.
JEREMY BANES
Graduate Student
Jeremy has lived in and around Tulsa, Oklahoma for most of his life. He served tables and bartended to support his wife and children while attending college part time. He has studied Law, Theology, Philosophy, Literature and History. Somehow, he managed to graduate from Saint Gregory’s University with a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts.
Amongst other things, Jeremy is interested in what makes a just society and a good citizen. One day, he was suddenly struck with the surprising notion that the city has been the stage for societal experimentation and human progress for longer than recorded history. By this somewhat circuitous route, Jeremy ended up in the Urban Design program at the University of Oklahoma.