Ben Cramer is a Master of City and Regional Planning student at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. He is from Madison, Wisconsin, and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Human Geography and Cartography/Geographic Information Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024. In between his studies, he worked as a high school geography teacher in Budapest, Hungary. Ben is passionate about people and place, and is concentrating his graduate degree on Community Development and Housing.