Asher is a second-year Master in Urban Planning candidate at the GSD originally from Los Angeles concentrating in Housing and Neighborhood Development. He previously worked as the Outreach Coordinator for a community development corporation in New Orleans and as a paralegal with the Foreclosure Prevention Project of the Legal Aid Society in NYC. Asher is interested in using tools of urban planning to promote social equity, and in using mapping and design to make planning and policy accessible to the public.