Media Kit

The below bios and downloadable images should be used when Sara is being interviewed or is presenting in her personal or academic capacity. For her official bio and photograph related to her federal role as Chair of the U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, please visit this website.

Professor, Cornell University; Founder, National Zoning Atlas; Author, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
Sara C. Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, Cornell University professor, National Zoning Atlas founder, and author of Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World.
Sara C. Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, Cornell University professor, and policymaker whose interdisciplinary work focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places. She wrote Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, and she founded and leads the National Zoning Atlas, which is digitizing, demystifying, and democratizing information about zoning in the United States. She also served in a Presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed role chairing the federal historic preservation agency.
Sara C. Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, Cornell University professor, and policymaker whose interdisciplinary work focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places. She wrote Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, and she founded and leads the National Zoning Atlas, which is digitizing, demystifying, and democratizing information about zoning in the United States.
Bronin is one of the foremost American scholars in property, land use, zoning, and historic preservation law, having (co-)authored two treatises, four books, and dozens of articles. She has been a reformer and change-maker in public roles at the local, state, and federal levels, including a Presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed role chairing the federal historic preservation agency. She holds a J.D. from Yale (Harry S Truman Scholarship), M.Sc. from the University of Oxford (Rhodes Scholarship), and B.Architecture and B.A. in Plan II from the University of Texas. A seventh-generation Texan, Sara is a native Houstonian.
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