Paige is drawn to the unintended effects of city-planned efforts. Paige was raised in Houston, Texas. As a kid, she desired greater freedom to move independently around Houston. Getting a driver’s license granted her this freedom at a scale previously unimaginable to her. The structure of planned roadways was involved in both experiences — enhancing her mobility once she could drive and limiting it when she could only bike or walk independently in her neighborhood. This tension did not disappear. Distance running has instilled in her a love of Houston’s bayou paths and a fear of getting hit while crossing certain streets.
She kept these personal experiences close in her education at the University of Texas at Austin, where she gained a stronger understanding of the institutional and political structures of cities. Her independent projects focused on older adult mobility. She worked with older adults in Texas to study potential interventions to driving cessation in her thesis project. In her capstone project, she interviewed older adults in the Horta neighborhood of Barcelona to understand how social interactions facilitated their transit use. Paige earned her BA in Urban Studies and Plan II in 2025.
Paige is eager to play a role in creating adaptable, safe, multimodal transportation systems at TEI. She loves Houston and will continue to work here with the belief that it should service people of all abilities, ages, and backgrounds.