A designer, spatial justice activist, and grief worker, Liz Ogbu is a globally recognized expert on engaging and transforming unjust urban environments. From designing shelters for immigrant day laborers in the U.S. to a health social enterprise for low-income Kenyans, Liz has long worked with historically marginalized communities to leverage design in ways that catalyze community healing and foster environments that support people’s capacity to thrive. She’s Founder and Principal of Studio O, a consultancy working at the intersection of racial and spatial justice. You can learn more about Liz Ogbu here.
Liz Ogbu
Liz Ogbu
Manzanita Fellow for Racial, Economic, and Environmental Justice
Her honors include TED Speaker, Aspen Ideas Scholar, and Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center Fellow. She earned architecture degrees from Wellesley College and Harvard University. At Mesa, she worked on Holding Space, a book that explores spatial justice and offers an invitation for a more healed relationship with the grief that we carry and the places that hold it. For more info about Liz, please visit lizogbu.com.