John Poros
Director
662-325-8719
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| | John Poros is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University. He is currently the director of the Carl Small Town Center, a community design and outreach component of the school. He is also the former director of the Educational Design Institute, a research center to improve school design. Before joining the faculty at Mississippi State ten years ago, Prof. Poros worked with the architecture firm of Kieran Timberlake Associates in Philadelphia for seven years. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Philadelphia College as well. Prof. Poros received his Masters of Architecture Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and his Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University. | 
Tracy Quinn
Office Associate
662-325-2304
Email
| | Tracy has been with the CSTC for over 6 years. Tracy graduated from
Mississippi State University with a bachelors degree in Communication
with an emphasis in Public Relations. She is married, has two children,
and enjoys spending time with her family. | 
Leah Kemp
Assistant Director
662-325-8671
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| | Leah has recently returned to the Carl Small Town Center as the Assistant Director, a role she previously held prior to moving to Nashville. She also teaches an online course within the College of Architecture, Art and Design at Mississippi State University, where she has taught both design and lecture courses. Kemp earned a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design from Virginia Tech. She then practiced interior design in Washington, DC, where she worked primarily on large-scale commercial projects. One such project, E-Sync, Networks, received the Washington, DC Chapters AIA Interior Architecture Merit Award in 2002.
Kemp also earned a Master of Architecture from Tulane University, receiving a commendation for her Masters Thesis: Re-connecting New Orleans to the Mississippi River. While at Tulane, Kemp was awarded the Lawrence Travel Fellowship to pursue self-directed study and public presentation of architect Alvaro Sizas work in Portugal and Spain.
Leah is interested in urban design at both the scale of the city and the small town and has had the opportunity to explore this pursuit while working at the New Orleans City Planning Commission and in small towns across the state of Mississippi while working at the Carl Small Town Center. In 2005, she received the MSU College of Architecture, Art and Designs Research Support Award for her community planning work in the town of Laurel, MS.
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