Meredith Drake Reitan
Meredith Drake Reitan is an Associate Dean in the Graduate School at the University of Southern California and an adjunct associate professor in USC’s Price School of Public Policy and School of Architecture. Her work has been published in the Journal of Planning History, the Journal of Urban Design and the Journal of the American Planning Association, among others. Using the Zooniverse platform, Dr. Drake Reitan is currently engaged in a collaboration with faculty from the USC Libraries on an innovative crowdsourced transcription of the 1939 Works Progress Administration’s Los Angeles Household Census Records.
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