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Lecture & Panel: Deanna Van Buren, Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS)

Tuesday, April 6, 2021
11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Virtual
Deanna Van Buren is the Executive Director, Design Director, and Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), an architecture and real estate development non-profit building infrastructure to end mass incarceration. As one of only 500 licensed Black female architects in the U.S, Deanna is committed to racial equity in the built environment and is a national thought leader in advocating for alternative spaces for justice, including restorative justice centers and mobile resource villages. Van Buren’s most recent notable projects with her team include Restore Oakland, a campus for restorative justice and restorative economics in Oakland, California, and the reimagining of the Atlanta City Detention Center into a Center for Equity. Van Buren received her BS in architecture from the University of Virginia and her Masters of Architecture from Columbia University, and she is the only architect to have been awarded the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship.

Following her lecture, Deanna will join for a short panel discussion around racist structures embedded in the nonprofit sector and how they are impacted by community infrastructure:

Matthew Countryman, U-M Department of Afroamerican & African Studies
Yodit Mesfin Johnson, NEW Center
Jessica Letaw, Building Matters Ann Arbor
Moderated by Anya Sirota, U-M Taubman College
Building: Off Campus Location
Location: Virtual
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Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Activism, African American, architecture, Civil Rights, Community, Community Engagement, design, Detroit, Diversity, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Social Justice
Source: Happening @ Michigan from A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies