Nicholas Shatan is Planning and Knowledge Capture Coordinator at the MIT Community Innovators Lab in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. He works on urban planning and policy, GIS (geographic information systems), and data analysis with the Just Urban Economies program in the Bronx. He is committed to critical study and action around development finance and policy, neighborhood history and change, democratic ownership and governance, and spatial data analysis. Nick has a master’s degree in city and regional planning from Rutgers University.