Rachel Stark is a Landscape Architect and Urban Designer with over 15 years of experience in city planning and data-driven capital investments. She has spent the past year and a half in Charlotte’s I&T department building the Smart Cities & Innovation Program. This program is focused on setting the strategy and delivering a digitally equitable and coordinated approach to smart city technology investments. This program is informed by her work as a senior designer in establishing the North End Smart District over six years ago through a process community co-creation. She has lived and worked in South Africa and Japan as well as the U.S. She has served rural communities, aging city centers, displaced communities living in townships, as well as for growing metropolitan areas. Outside of work, her other passions are international travel, languages, hiking, mountain biking, snorkeling, reading, and spending time with family, friends, and her two dogs. She has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Fuji, completed the O-Track at Torres del Pine in Patagonia, and is hoping to make it to Greenland to hike the Arctic Circle Trail.
Rachel Stark is a Landscape Architect and Urban Designer with over 15 years of experience in city planning and data-driven capital investments. She has spent the past year and a half in Charlotte’s I&T department building the Smart Cities & Innovation Program. This program is focused on setting the strategy and delivering a digitally equitable and coordinated approach to smart city technology investments. This program is informed by her work as a senior designer in establishing the North End Smart District over six years ago through a process community co-creation. She has lived and worked in South Africa and Japan as well as the U.S. She has served rural communities, aging city centers, displaced communities living in townships, as well as for growing metropolitan areas. Outside of work, her other passions are international travel, languages, hiking, mountain biking, snorkeling, reading, and spending time with family, friends, and her two dogs. She has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Fuji, completed the O-Track at Torres del Pine in Patagonia, and is hoping to make it to Greenland to hike the Arctic Circle Trail.
