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Ifeoma Ebo will join the Spitzer faculty as a full-time, tenure-track assistant professor of design, sustainability, and landscape architecture in fall 2023.

Ifeoma is a Nigerian American, Brooklyn-based designer, architect, artist, urbanist, and planner with a proven track record of transforming urban spaces into platforms for equity and design excellence. In her 20-year career, she has engaged in projects in architecture, community placemaking, community/large-scale master planning, infrastructure upgrading, urban policy, and neighborhood development.

Through leadership roles in urban design and development initiatives funded by the United Nations, FIFA, and New York City’s Office of the Mayor, she has excelled in leading multidisciplinary teams toward the planning and implementation of projects supporting racial, social, and cultural equity. As the founding Principal of Creative Urban Alchemy LLC, she is highly sought-after for community design, regenerative placemaking, and the equitable transformation of urban space.

As a creative, Ifeoma explores her passion for visual storytelling to craft engaging design workshops and to capture her global explorations of cultural urbanism — the intersection of space, place, people, and culture. As an award-winning artist, she is a recipient of grant awards from MIT, Cornell University’s Council for the Arts, and the Black Artists and Designers Guild; and she has exhibited her work at the Cornell University Willard Straight Gallery, MIT’s Rotch Library Gallery, and the Oakland Museum’s exhibition on Afrofuturism. She has also exhibited her work as a part of the Architectural League’s Shifting Ground visual archive, which captured the relationship between society and the built environment during the pandemic.

She has served on advisory boards for the Mayor of Helsingborg, Sweden, H22 Smart City Initiative, the Association for Community Design, the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority, and the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and is a founding board member of the BlackSpace Urbanist Collective and a member of the Dark Matter University network. She has received awards and fellowships from the Cornell School of Architecture, the Urban Design Forum, Next City, Architecture for Humanity, Anshen & Allen Architects, Graham Foundation, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, and Columbia GSAPP. She has taught and lectured at the University of Virginia, Syracuse University, Columbia University, The Cooper Union, Cornell University, the University of Cape Town, Harvard University, and the School of Visual Arts (SVA) sharing her expertise in urban design and equity. Ifeoma holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, a Master in City Planning from MIT, and training as a Regenerative Practitioner from the Regenesis Institute.