Tya Winn

Biography: Tya Winn, NOMA Tya Winn is Executive Director of the Community Design Collaborative and Adjunct Professor at Temple, Drexel, and Thomas Jefferson University. She is an organizer and core member of Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter U. She serves on the AIA Philadelphia Board of Directors as Public Member and Director of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Ms. Winn received her BARCH from Syracuse University and MARCH from University of Pennsylvania. Her career focuses on real estate and community development; prioritizing affordable housing creation, economic development, creative place-making, and urban revitalization. A member of the National Organization of Minority Architects; she is a past president and former Project Pipeline Director at PhilaNOMA . Since 2015 she is co-chair the Housing Subcommittee of the West Philadelphia Promise Zone. She received the Stewardson Keefe Lebrun Travel grant observing design of public housing internationally. Tya focuses on equitable development practices, anti-racist design justice principles, and how experience shapes perceptions of place.