Emmanuel Pratt is an American Urban Designer. In 2009 he co-founded the Sweet Water Foundation, which practices "Regenerative Neighborhood Development" on the South Side of

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. The foundation is centered around bringing inter-generational members of the community together for education and to work on

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and reclaiming abandoned properties and transforming them into productive landscapes. Pratt was born in Virginia and graduated in 1995 from Maggie L. Walker Governor's School in Richmond, Virginia. In 1999, he graduated with a Bachelors of Architecture from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

, and he received a Masters of Science in architecture and urban design from

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in 2003. From 2016 to 2017, Pratt was a Loeb Fellow at

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. From 2011 to 2018, Pratt was director of the

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program at

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. He was the Charles Moore Visiting Professor at the

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at the University of Michigan, and is a visiting lecturer in Environmental and Urban Studies at the

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. In 2019, Pratt was invited to participate in the third Chicago Architecture Biennial, where his entry ''Reroot + Redux'' explored the connections between architecture and the Great Migration. Pratt was also named a

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