Taskina Tareen
Taskina Tareen is a Senior Planner with a background in urban design, land use and development, and community engagement. Her work centers on understanding and translating complex urban systems across multiple scales, and collaborating with communities to develop meaningful, equitable strategies for sustainable growth. Taskina has worked with public sector clients on subarea planning, long-range planning, design guidelines, and visioning projects. She embraces a cross-disciplinary approach and brings extensive experience developing creative and impactful engagement processes.
Taskina recently relocated to Seattle from Boston, MA, where she was a Project Manager at a local design and planning firm. Her work and studies have also taken her abroad to Valparaiso, Chile; Cape Town, South Africa; Japan, and Italy. Taskina has a Master of City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University. She is an AICP certified planner.
Outside BERK
Born and raised in Lusaka, Zambia, with family roots in Bangladesh, Taskina moved to the U.S. via upstate New York, then Boston before making an exciting move to the PNW. She considers herself a Global citizen and aims to travel to as many countries as possible (30+ and counting!) to experience diverse cultures and cuisines. When she’s not planning her next adventure abroad, Taskina enjoys cooking and testing recipes from places she has visited and those she'd like to explore. She shares this culinary journey with her husband as taste-tester, and their Samoyed pup, Luka, who eagerly watches for any food to drop.
