Shalem@puebloplanning.com
(619) 602-3903

Shalem Aboody-López (they/them) | AICP, MA, MCRP
Cultural Strategist and Memory Worker

Shalem Aboody-López (they/them), Pueblo founder, is an award-winning Cultural Strategist and Memory Worker with twenty years of experience facilitating participatory planning and storytelling processes to advance social, economic, and environmental justice. They curate stories, often through photography and audio recordings, and provide cultural strategy services to engage marginalized communities in planning and policy development to dismantle unjust systems and co-develop equitable communities.

Their practice is not only informed by their formal education in history (BA), political science (MA), and urban planning (MCRP, AICP), but their embodied experience as a queer, nonbinary, Jewish, Xicanx person, who grew up in a community where environmental racism was perpetrated. In addition to their work with Pueblo, Shalem works at the San Diego Air Pollution Control District in the Office of Environmental Justice, supporting communities to address the impacts of harmful policies and planning and integrating environmental justice principles in operations, policies and guidelines throughout the public agency.

Shalem has also brought their justice-centered approach and practice into the classroom as a lecturer at San Diego State University, Antioch University, Pitzer College, and Cal Poly Pomona.