Deanna Van Buren is a national leader researching, and advocating for restorative justice centers, a radical transformation of the criminal justice system. She is the executive director of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, an architecture and real estate development firm innovating in the built environment to end mass incarceration.

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 BS in Architecture from the University of Virginia, and M. Arch from Columbia University. She is an alumnus of the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.