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Tessa Kelly is an architect and partner at Group AU, as well as co-founder of The Mastheads, a public design non-profit in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She is a graduate of the Harvard School of Design, and has taught previously within the Studio Art Department of Williams College and at the Yale School of Architecture. She is currently teaching ARC 404 at the Princeton School of Architecture. At Group AU, Tessa spearheads urbanism projects that have been supported by both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and which engage the local community in Pittsfield through themes of urban history, cultural and literary heritage, and identity-building through design.