Deanna Van Buren is the cofounder and executive director of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, an architecture and real estate nonprofit working to end mass incarceration. She is a socially engaged artist working across media platforms including public art, film, and video games. She has been profiled globally for her work at the intersection of design, architecture, mass incarceration and her TEDWomen talk on what a world without prisons could look like has been viewed more than one million times. Her honors include UC Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Prize and Professorship, the 2018 Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts, and Architectural Record’s Women in Architecture Award. She received her BS in architecture from the University of Virginia, her MArch from Columbia University, and she is an alumnus of the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.