Dr. Andrea Roberts is Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Faculty Fellow with the Center for Heritage Conservation and the Institute for Sustainable Communities at Texas A&M University as well as founder of The Texas Freedom Colonies Project, a research and social justice initiative documenting African American’s placemaking history and their contemporary planning practices and challenges. Roberts’s critical scholarship aims to diversify planning history, expose promising replicable grassroots preservation practices, and amplify minority communities’ concerns in policy arenas. She has written about social justice, intersectionality, and historic preservation for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, rural Black women’s placemaking in The Journal of Planning History, and the role of storytelling among grassroots preservationists for the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage. Current projects include a book about Black historic preservation practice and an interactive, statewide Black settlement Atlas. Most recently, Roberts was an Emerging Scholar Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin’s (UT) School of Architecture where she also earned a Ph.D. in community and regional planning. In addition to her Ph.D., Roberts holds an M.A. in government administration from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in political science from Vassar College.
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