Draft:Aisha Densmore-Bey

Densmore-Bey was born in Hartford, Connecticut,{{Cite web |date=September 11, 2020 |title=Student Q&A: Aisha Densmore-Bey (DDes) |url=https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2020/09/student-qa-aisha-densmore-bey-ddes/ |access-date=December 22, 2024 |website=Harvard University Graduate School of Design}}{{primary source inline|date=January 2025}} and raised on "museums and art classes", then later moved to Miami, FL where she attended the Design and Architecture Senior High School.{{Cite web |last=Pardue |first=Lauren |date=January 10, 2024 |title=VPA Adjunct Spotlight: Dr. Aisha Densmore-Bey |url=https://www.merrimack.edu/news/vpa-adjunct-spotlight-dr-aisha-densmore-bey/ |access-date=2024-01-07 |website=Merrimack College}}{{primary source inline|date=January 2025}} She received a Bachelor of Architecture from Florida A&M University, a Master of Science in strategic design and management from the Parsons School of Design (2017), and a Doctor of Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (2023).{{Cn|date=January 2025}}

Densmore-Bey began working for architecture firms in Hartford and in Boston before establishing the eponymous multidisciplinary practice Aisha Densmore-Bey, Designer in 2011.{{Cn|date=January 2025}} The office focuses on architecture, graphic design, design strategy, design education, visual art, writing, and film.{{Cn|date=January 2025}} The office has also developed design programs for teenagers,{{Cn|date=January 2025}} and small independent film shorts such as ROOM.{{Cite web |title=ROOM |url=https://filmfreeway.com/ROOMFilmShort |access-date=December 22, 2024 |website=FilmFreeway}}{{unreliable source|date=January 2025}} Objects Densmore-Bey has designed are a part of the collection at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.{{Cite web |title=Collection Search Results: Aisha Densmore-Bey |url=https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/collection/search?edan_q=Aisha%20Densmore-Bey |access-date=December 22, 2024 |website=National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Smithsonian}}{{primary source inline|date=January 2025}}

She is the author and illustrator of Who Made My Stuff?, published in 2018.{{Cite web |date=June 26, 2020 |title=Nexus Podcast {{!}}June 26, 2020{{!}} Aisha Densmore-Bey |url=https://aadn.gsd.harvard.edu/2020/06/26/the-nexus-aisha-densmore-bey/ |access-date=December 22, 2024 |website=African American Design Nexus}}{{primary source inline|date=January 2025}}

Densmore-Bey's dissertation titled "The Artist-Developer: A case study of impact through art-centered community development in neighborhoods of color" explores the community development work of three famous African American artists who have used arts-based real estate development to create positive change in their neighborhoods. Because of this research, she was a speaker at the University of Texas at Austin "The Black Home as Public Art" symposium in 2024.{{Cite web |title=The Black Home as Public Art |url=https://soa.utexas.edu/events/black-home-public-art |access-date=December 22, 2024 |website=The University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture}}{{primary source inline|date=January 2025}}{{Failed verification|date=January 2025}}

Densmore-Bey has won the 2012 Associates Award from the American Institute of Architects.{{Cite web |title=AIArchitect Newsletter |url=https://info.aia.org/aiarchitect/2012/0120/newsletter/ |url-status=dead |website=American Institute of Architects}}{{primary source inline|date=January 2025}} While at Harvard, she won a Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative Fellowship{{Cite web |title=Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative / HOME / PEOPLE / Aisha Densmore-Bey |url=https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/people/aisha-densmore-bey-0 |access-date=December 22, 2024 |website=Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative}}{{primary source inline|date=January 2025}} and a John R. Meyer Dissertation Fellowship from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.{{Cite web |title=Aisha Densmore-Bey, Meyer Fellow |url=https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/aisha-densmore-bey-0 |access-date=December 22, 2024 |website=Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University|date=6 August 2024 }}{{primary source inline|date=January 2025}} In 2024 she won the WiD (Women in Design) Award of Excellence{{Cite web |date=November 27, 2024 |title=Women in Design announce the 25th Annual WiD Award of Excellence winners |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2024/11/women-in-design-25th-annual-wid-award-excellence-winners/ |access-date=January 4, 2025 |website=The Architect's Newspaper}} "in recognition of a person who has built one's own life around design, whose work exemplifies the best of process and product, and who uses a position of achievement to give back to the world of design and to the community at large."{{Cite web |title=WID Award of Excellence recipients |url=https://www.architects.org/wid-award-of-excellence-recipients |access-date=January 4, 2025 |website=Boston Society of Architects}}

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