Sophia Aitken supports B&D’s Higher Education practice as a senior analyst in Austin, TX. Sophia graduated from the University of Texas, Austin with a Master of Science in Community & Regional Planning. In 2021, her team won the ULI Hines Student Competition.

Prior to joining B&D, Sophia was an associate with a landscape architecture and urban design studio in Miami, FL where she led business development, as well as managed several public space projects addressing the area’s climate resilience concerns.