Partner
Mend Collaborative
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Zakcq Lockrem is a partner at Mend Collaborative, a landscape architecture and planning firm founded in 2022 in Minneapolis and Austin. In his work, he loves the big picture, understanding how complex systems influence people’s lives, and how policy, programs, and physical projects can work together to sustain lasting impact in communities. He most enjoys working with low- and middle-income working-class communities like the one he grew up in as they navigate urban change, seek to build greater access to resources and opportunities for themselves and their children, and have more say in the changes that their community is experiencing.
Zakcq has served as an Adjunct Professor at Texas Southern University and was a 2014 Next City Vanguard. He is deeply committed to mentoring and bringing those from underrepresented communities into design careers. He holds a BS in urban affairs from Boston University and a Masters in Urban Planning from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He has lived in Berlin, Boston, Houston, Ho Chi Minh City, and Austin but is happy to have returned to his roots in south Minneapolis, where he lives with his wife and son.
Monday, April 3, 2023
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM CDT