Ifeoma Ebo

Ifeoma is an experienced Architect, Urban Designer, and Strategist with a proven track record in transforming public spaces into platforms for equity and design excellence. In her twenty-year career, she has led projects in architecture, urban revitalization, community / large-scale masterplanning, infrastructure upgrading, urban policy, and neighborhood development. Through leadership roles in urban design and development initiatives funded by the United Nations, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), and the NYC Mayor’s Office, she has excelled in managing multidisciplinary teams towards the planning and implementation of projects supporting racial, social, and cultural equity.

She has served on Advisory Boards for the Mayor of Helsingborg, Sweden H22 Smart City Initiative, Association for Community Design, Museum of Modern Art, and is a founding board member of the BlackSpace Urbanist Collective - a national network of Black practitioners striving for equity and justice in the built environment. She is a 2010 Architecture for Humanity Design Fellow, 2016 NYC Urban Design Forum Forefront Fellow, and 2016 Next City Vanguard Fellow. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University and Columbia University and has taught and lectured at Cornell University, University of Cape Town, Harvard University, and the NYC School of Visual Arts sharing her expertise in urban design and equity. Ifeoma holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and a Master in City Design and Development from MIT.

As the founding Director of Creative Urban Alchemy LLC, she is a highly sought after consultant on equitable design and sustainable development strategy for city governments, real estate development entities, and civic institutions internationally.