About Prescott
Prescott Reavis is an Oakland-based spatial activist, architect, designer, planner, and award-winning educator who has merged 20+ years of experiences in architecture, planning, and education to develop and construct inclusive communities internationally with a focus on equitable design and planning justice.
Prescott is the Founder and Director of Kulima, an Oakland-based community design, planning, + educational strategy practice focused on co-creating child-friendly cities. We have specific expertise in developing place-based educational programs and projects, centering on developing critical thinking, collaboration, and STEAM skills. We increase young people's civic agency to foster just, healthy and joyful neighborhoods where they will thrive. Projects include Planning, Community Engagement, and Design for The Oakland Black Cultural Zone (BCZ), BCZ HUB, as well as youth engagement, planning, and design with elementary schools in Oakland, Richmond, and San Francisco. Mr. Reavis currently is the Esherick Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design in the Department of Architecture.
Mr. Reavis’s previous experiences include serving as the Director of Community Planning and Project Manager for the nonprofit AND Architecture + Community Planning (AND A+CP) in San Francisco, where he provided community engagement, planning, design services, and advocacy for nonprofits, small business, and community based organizations. Prescott’s completed projects include the design for Urban Ed Academy headquarters, SOMA Asset Mapping Youth and Family Zone, several Community Clinics for San Francisco Department of Public Health, and The Hunters Point Community Youth Park: Youth Master Plan. Before AND A+CP Mr. Reavis was an associate and director of student internships for the internationally acclaimed design firm Ashen+Allen now known as Stantec where he focused on Healthcare and Academic projects for 13 years; his completed projects include buildings for UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Francisco, University of Missouri and Santa Clara County Medical Facilities.
Prescott has over fifteen years of being a youth educator teaching students from elementary school through university students on architecture, planning, culture, and sustainability. He has served as an Adjunct Lecturer at Howard University Department Of Architecture, the Co-Chair of the AIA San Francisco (AIA SF) Mentorship Committee, A founding member of the San Francisco Chapter of National Organization of Minority Architects (SFNOMA), the Vice President of SFNOMA, and the NOMA University Liaison for the West, Chair of the NOMA National Student Competition and NOMA’s Project Pipeline. Presently, Mr. Reavis is a Youth Plan Learn Action Now! (Y-PLAN) Teaching Architect, he was named a Y-Plan Hero from UC Berkeley Center for Cities and Schools for his work with Malcolm X Academy in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco over the last twelve years. Prescott is a Mentor Awardee by AIA SF, The NOMA Founders Awardee for his dedication to mentoring and his work with Project Pipeline, he has served as a Teaching Artist with Youth Art Exchange, Density Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation working with middle school and high school students to design youth friendly neighborhoods and spaces. He is a founder and current director of Project Pipeline, Community Planning + Architecture camp in San Francisco.
Mr. Reavis is a licensed architect, accredited in Sustainable Design, and certified in Social Economic Environmental Design, he earned his Bachelor of Architecture with a minor in Education from Howard University where he was honored with the Alpha Rho Ci medal for his dedication to youth education and mentoring in the DC community. Prescott has completed certificates in Applications in Technology in Planning and Community Design and Development at San Jose State University.
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