Estella Dieci

Estella Dieci is a second-year Master of Environmental Design student at the Yale School of Architecture. She is interested in ways in which individuals and communities relate to each other and the environment in a changing climate, and the role of the architecture, infrastructure, and education in facilitating this. Her MED research considers how the Klamath River dam removals and restoration, the world’s largest, are redefining the region’s ecological and cultural resources after over a century of terraformation and decades of regional water conflict and tribal leadership. She works as a Teaching Fellow, as a Gallery Teacher at YUAG, and at East Rock Shala. Before Yale, Estella received her BS in Computational Media from the Georgia Institute of Technology, interned at MoMA, completed a year of service with the Americorps Emergency Response Team, helped launch a nonprofit teaching regenerative design and earthen construction in West Texas, and worked in disaster response, conservation, and for various organizations combining design, community, and the environment. She is also an avid backpacker, yoga student, and meditator, and enjoys all outdoor recreation, arts, and crafts.