Sam is currently supporting Detroit's neighborhood leaders and organizations through the creation and activation of Structures and Spaces within Community Hubs, Urban Farms, Neighborhood Corridors, Public Schools, and Liberated Territories. Sam has recently founded Open Works, LLC, an emerging Design//Build practice that incorporates Community-Scale Production and Place-Based Education to design and build public infrastructures while growing and nurturing human capabilities.

Sam received his A.A.S in Architecture from Anne Arundel Community College ‘15, his B.S. in Architecture from the University of Colorado, Denver ‘17, then went on to receive his M.Arch from the University of Michigan ‘19. He has worked with community oriented design firms such as Radian INC in Denver, Colorado and the Hudson Valley Design Lab of MASS. Design Group in Poughkeepsie, NY. After graduating from the University of Michigan's M.Arch program '19, he continued his education and went to work with the Sweet Water Foundation in Chicago, IL where they practice “Regenerative Neighborhood Development”, a creative and regenerative social justice method that creates safe and inspiring spaces and curates healthy, intergenerational communities that transform the ecology of so-called ”blighted” neighborhoods. In 2021 he transplanted into the city of Detroit to support values-based-partners of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Network.