Rashida Ng.

Rashida Ng.

RASHIDA NG. As a licensed architect and educator, Rashida Ng focuses her research on the confluence of climate change and racial equity, specifically emphasizing housing insecurity. Engaging researchers, practitioners, and community stakeholders, she recently organized the Housing Justice Futures symposium aimed at tackling housing inequities in Philadelphia and other US cities. Similarly committed to equity in higher education, she also seeks to address systemic disparities in architectural education through her writing, research, and administrative work. She served as the 2019-2020 President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, the first black woman to hold this position. She is Chair of Undergraduate Architecture and Presidential Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Weitzman School of Design.

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