Senior Profile: Isabella Sardina

  • Full name: Isabella Sardina (Class of 2024)
  • Major/Minor: Community & Regional Planning, Minor: Communications
  • Hometown: Goldsboro, North Carolina
  • Interest in Planning & future goals: City Planning – specifically in housing and neighborhood development and downtown revitalization.
  • Favorite thing about the department: This program feels like a family and offers such great opportunities like studying abroad in South Korea and being a part of a great network of alumni. The faculty and students in this program have made me feel as though I truly belong. I am so grateful for ECU’s Community and Regional Planning program.
  • Isabella Sardina’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabella-sardina-751321259/ 
  • Isabella Sardina’s Projects: 
    • Town of Tarboro Flood Land Reuse Plan (Spring 2024): Practicum (Community Partner: Town of Tarboro, NC) – individual project
    • Greenville Involved (Fall 2023): Planning Studio project with Cameron Brown and Johnathan Alberg (Community Partner: City of Greenville, NC) – small group project
    • Deferred Maintenance of Housing Study, Town of Bethel (Spring 2023): A class project with all classmates (Community Partner: Town of Bethel, NC) – class project. Isabella presented this project at the American Planning Association North Carolina chapter conference in Durham, NC, in Fall 2024 on behalf of the class.