Elizabeth Emerson has worked with Tina Manis Associates and Garrison Architects in New York and RTKL Associates in Washington DC.  Her project experience ranges from multi-tenant residential and hospitality projects to institutional and government projects including the Syracuse University School of Architecture, Slocum Hall Renovation, and the US Embassies in Rabat, Morocco and Vienna, Austria.  Elizabeth holds a Masters of Advanced Architecture Design from the Graduate School of Architecure, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, where she was a recipient of the Lucille Smyer Lowenfish Memorial Design Award.  She holds a Bachelors of Archtecture degree from the Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning where she was awarded the AIA Nathan Wyeth Award for Design Excellence and was a first prize winner in the Cardinal O’Boyle Foreign Studies Competition.  She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture at Catholic University of America School of Architecture and Planning and has been an adjunct professor at New York Institute of Technology and New School University / Parsons School of Design.  A native of the Washington DC area, Elizabeth’s research in design has engaged issues of social and environmental sustainability, individual / collective identity and privatization.  She has served as a Project Director and Steering Committee member of the New York chapter of Architecture for Humanity, a non-profit organization which aims to make design integral to public discourse.