Jarrett Ley

Jarrett Ley is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP.

Forensic journalism and documentary film are at the center of Ley’s spatial practice, in which he mobilizes architectural technology alongside open-source reporting methodologies to drive investigations that inform the public and hold power accountable. This work has included investigations of wars in Asia and Europe, as well as political violence in the United States. Presently, he is reporting with the Visual Forensics team at The Washington Post.

Ley directed animation for the film January 6, a documentary reconstructing the U.S. Capitol riot that premiered at Hamptons International Film Festival and showed at DocFest NYC.

Ley holds a Master of Architecture and M.S. in Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture degrees from Columbia GSAPP.