Caro Campos

Caro Campos is a first-year graduate student in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

Most recently, she worked as the Researcher to the Director of Monument Lab, a research lab and design studio based in Philadelphia. Her collaborators ranged from the American Museum of Natural History, the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Previously, she lived in Curitiba, Brazil, working as a researcher at the Public Ministry Office for Justice in Housing and Urban Planning researching constitutional rights to the city, social housing, and community land trusts. Caro spent nine years living in Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia, studying and organizing across areas of migrant, housing, and memory justice. In Charlottesville, she worked at Legal Aid Justice Center and was a member of Visible Records, an artist-run gallery, studio, and movement space.

She is a graduate of the University of Virginia with Highest Distinction, where she studied Political & Social Thought, a Distinguished Major Program, and minored in Urban & Environmental Planning. At UVA, she worked on a team developing the public interpretation of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers and led a group organizing to expand access to education for all students regardless of immigration status.