Maya Angelou once said, “I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.”
Coming up on the 50th anniversary of the University of Florida Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Jarrell Smith recognizes how much the nearly 800 graduates from the program have followed this advice in the built environment thus far. While most of them have had an instrumental impact at the neighborhood, city, regional, state and national level in shaping the world we live in, the 2017 URP graduate has continued to preach the theme of giving back as the newest chair of the URP Advisory Council.