Originally from Mexico City, Dr. Ariadna Reyes is an Assistant Professor in Planning at the College of Architecture, Planning, and Public Affairs. She teaches planning, sustainable communities, green cities, and transportation courses. Before this, she was a research associate at the Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2) and a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. In addition, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Global Shifts Program at Penn's Perry World House. She earned a Ph.D. in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture in 2018. She received the Fulbright-Garcia Robles and Mexico's National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) grants as a doctoral student. Ariadna is also a civil engineer with an MSc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Mexico's Instituto Politecnico Nacional. Her research comprehensively approaches informal housing, transportation poverty, and sustainability. Ariadna's fieldwork on informal settlements in Mexico and Texas reveals the contribution of these communities to sustainable and just cities in the North and Global South. Her work has been published in the Journal of Planning Education and Research, Urban Studies, Cities, among others.

Ariadna and her colleagues from the University of Illinois-Chicago and the University of California-Irvine received a Mellon grant from the Crossing Latinidades Collaborative Research Working Groups in Latino Humanities Studies. In addition, she has received multiple streams of funding from the University of Texas at Arlington, including the Interdisciplinary Research Program, the Research Enhancement Program, and three Geisel Grants. Her research provides a better understanding of how low-income Latinx, African American, and white residents in informal communities in North Texas face and adapt to housing precarity, climate, and environmental injustices. As a First-Generation Latina/Latin American scholar, Ariadna is a research associate at UTA's Center for Mexican American Studies. She also has strong research connections with researchers and universities in Mexico, including Centro Geo in Mexico City. She was recently appointed a member of the ACSP Committee on Diversity for 2023-2025.