jah elyse sayers

ERI/PS2 Public Research Fellow

jah elyse sayers (they/them) is currently a PhD candidate in Earth & Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Their dissertation focuses on embodied, enacted, and relational placemaking in tension with public-space planning, research, and policy, focusing on the rapidly changing landscape of People’s Beach at Jacob Riis Park. jah elyse sayers is a 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellow.