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2022 Spring Lecture Series: Kwesi Daniels

An Unexpected Journey: Citizen Professor


Portrait of Kwesi Daniels
Kwesi Daniels

Date

April 07, 2022

Time

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

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Cost

FREE

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Architects have the capacity to be societal change agents; educators play a monumental role in this process. Unfortunately, many architects are not in tune with the needs of the communities that need the most support. As a professional who lives among the 99% and searches for humanity in all of the places where society says it does not exist, Dr. Daniels has been very deliberate in uncovering how to utilize the lines we draw in architecture to create equity. This lecture will explore his educational and personal journey of discovery from being a student to a professor, and now the Head of the Department of Architecture at Tuskegee University.

Date

April 07, 2022

Time

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

For More Info

communications@the-bac.edu

Cost

FREE

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Dr. Kwesi Daniels is the Head of the Architecture Department at Tuskegee University. His professional experience ranges across various disciplines, including historic preservation, architecture, sustainability management, and urban geography. Over his twenty-year career, he has worked for architecture firms and government agencies on public and private sector building projects around the country. He has also played an active role in the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), the Alabama Black Heritage Council, and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. His greatest honor has been teaching students at Tuskegee, Temple, NYU, and Columbia University in addition to lecturing nationally.

In 2018 he began developing a historic preservation program at Tuskegee University, which has resulted in the documentation of civil rights sites in Selma, Montgomery, and Tuskegee, Ala. Professor Daniels earned a B. Arch and M. Arch in architecture from Tuskegee University and the University of Illinois at Chicago and a MS in sustainability management from Columbia University. In 2020, he earned a Ph.D. in urban geography from Temple University. His doctoral research focused on studentification and its social impact on West Philadelphia neighborhoods.

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