Second-year student Nadia Silva is from Luanda, Angola and studying here as a Fulbright Fellow. In this short video, she describes her desire to study planning as a result of imagining how government and policies could change the lives of those in poverty in her own country. Her Field Problems capstone project is demonstrating how the lives of those in Keokuk, Iowa can be improved through good urban planning.

Video produced by Travis Kraus, Director, Iowa Initiative for Sustainable Communities.