Prior to joining Aufgang, Shiva co-founded SPARC—Spatial Art and Construction with offices in Brooklyn and the Netherlands. Shiva has built a career by focusing on affordable housing & responsible neighborhood planning. Of note is that, while with SPARC, Shiva won a contract from the City of NY to reconstruct over 100 single- and two-family coastal homes in New York destroyed by Hurricane Sandy and successfully completed that commission. As Director of Planning and Community Development at Aufgang, Shiva is heavily involved in navigating zoning regulations and leading her team in developing compliant designs to bring projects to successful completion. Shiva also has been teaching “Sustainability: History and Practice” course at City Tech (CUNY) since 2018.