Deanna Van Buren is the executive director of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), an architecture and real estate development non-profit working to end mass incarceration, where she brings her design leadership to creating places for restorative justice, rehabilitation, and community building. Her professional career spans 20 years as a global design lead on mixed-use, institutional, higher education and social impact projects. Deanna is a recent awardee of the Berkeley-Rupp Professorship Prize, The Royal Society of Arts Bicentenary Medal, and the Women in Architecture Awards Honoring Pioneering Professionals. She received her BS in Architecture from the University of Virginia, M. Arch from Columbia University, and is an alumnus of the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.