Katherine Williams

Katherine Williams, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP is a licensed architect in Northern Virginia and currently a senior project manager for construction at a university in Washington, D.C. She restarted the annual Black Women in Architecture brunch in Washington, co-founded the Desiree Cooper ARE Scholarship, and is a founding collaborator for Riding the Vortex. Katherine has written about architecture and development and served as editor for multiple publications. She was the NOMA Magazine editor from 2009 to 2014. In 2020, Katherine published Melvin Mitchell, FAIA’s book African American Architects: Embracing Culture and Building Urban Communities.Katherine serves on the AIA Continuing Education Committee and on the Village of Love and Resistance board. She was chair of the AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community advisory group and an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow in San Francisco. She writes at katherinerw.com and is publisher/editor for archstories.com and bwa-network.com.