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Architectural Mentor Tiffany Brown Is Guiding Young Black Designers to Licensure

A 400 Forward sketch-off event with Ford Motor Company at Michigan Central Train Station. Tiffany Brown pictured at the right. Photography courtesy Tiffany Brown.
A 400 Forward sketch-off event with Ford Motor Company at Michigan Central Train Station. Tiffany Brown pictured at the right. Photography courtesy Tiffany Brown.

If the dismal fact that African Americans only make up two percent of all licensed architects in the United States was not bad enough, dive deeper into the statistics. Of those two percent, only 20 percent are women—that works out to just 500 Black women who are licensed to practice in this nation. Tiffany Brown wants to help those numbers soar. On the path to licensure herself, the architectural designer, mentor and recently named executive director of the National Organization of Minority Architects is helping others get there too, by starting at the barriers: lack of exposure to the profession and financial hardship.

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