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Roberta Washington

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Roberta Washington , , is an American architect. She founded the firm Roberta Washington Architects in 1983, which, at the time, was one of very few architecture firms in the United States led by an African-American woman. She was a Commissioner of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission from 2007 to 2015. She is a past President of the National Organization of Minority Architects (1997) and is a Director and Treasurer of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) Foundation. She has been a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects since 2006.

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