Deanna Van Buren is an American architect and activist. She is a co-founder of the California-based architecture company ''Designing Justice + Designing Spaces''.

Education

Van Buren holds degrees from the

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and

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Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

Awards

She was the 2019-2020 Berkeley-Rupp Visiting Professor at the

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College of Environmental Design. She is a 2023 United States Artist Fellow.

References

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