Karla is a Senior Associate at Cityfi based in Miami, FL. An architect and urban planner by training with extensive experience in urban planning and policy design with keen understanding of urban issues, policy challenges, and urban development trends. She has built a specialization in stimulating environmental sustainability, social inclusion, and economic development in collaboration with public and private sectors.

Prior to Cityfi, Karla worked for UN-Habitat as an urban planner consultant collaborating in the elaboration of city strategies with a planning horizon to the year 2030 taking into account the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. She designed and implemented methodologies for participatory workshops aimed at including community inputs in strategies at the global level as well as implementing tactical urbanism interventions at the local level. Karla has also served as a Project Manager in City & Territory Planning at IDOM Consulting, Engineering, Architecture leading the elaboration of studies of climate change, natural risks, and urban growth for the Emerging and Sustainable Cities Program in collaboration with Inter-American Development Bank for the City of Hermosillo, Mexico. Participated in the elaboration of the Official Assessment Document for the Pre-Feasibility Study for the Special Economic Zones in partnership with the National Bank for Public Works and Services of Mexico. Karla has also collaborated with the Office of Deputy Mayor for Urban Planning, Green Areas, and Agriculture at the municipality of Milan, Italy in the implementation of tactical urbanism interventions.