Arvind Sohoni is a lawyer who currently serves as the Director of Special Projects at the New York City Housing Authority, where he focuses on the Authority’s long-term strategy and viability. Previously, he was a Senior Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company—serving a variety of public and private sector clients—as well as a Fellow with the McKinsey Global Institute.

Education: BBA, University of Michigan; JD, Harvard Law School

of North Carolina at Charlotte Urban Institute, the oldest and most prestigious research center at UNC Charlotte. She left the institute in 2018 to pursue free-lance writing.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina, she was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2007-08 and in 2005-06 she was a Knight Fellow in Community Planning at the University of Miami School of Architecture. A longtime blogger, she writes The Naked City Blog (www.nakedcityblog.blogspot.com) and chairs the board of trustees of the Charlotte Museum of Historyfrom 2013 to 2016 was on the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation's Community Leadership Council. She was a consulting editor for the founding of Citiscope.org, which examined urban innovations around the globe. Her writing has appeared in CityLab, Next City and Grist, among other publications.