Sarah Kavanagh, RA

Originally from a town North of Philadelphia, I have been living and working in the greater New York City area since 2016. As of 2023, I'm a Registered Architect in the state of New Jersey. I received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lehigh University in 2011 and a Master of Architecture degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2016. In between degrees, I worked for 16 months as an architectural designer at Pickard Chilton Architects of New Haven, CT and in 2015, I interned for 3 months at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. Since landing in NYC, I have worked on a wide array of different projects including high-end fitness spaces with Bright Architecture and low-income residential projects with David Cunningham Architecture Planning, both based in Brooklyn. From 2019 until 2021, I was a Project Manager designing both commercial and residential spaces for Kushner Studios. I’m currently an architectural designer working on high-end single family homes and multiresidential projects for JG Neukomm Architecture in downtown Manhattan. In 2014/2015, I teamed up with several RISD peers to enter a design solution for the Boston Living With Water Competition. Also in 2015, I received an Architectural Studies Travel Award (ASTA) stipend to travel abroad to Kyoto, Japan for a RISD Wintersession course. I have published several works in the AIA Brooklyn chapter newsletter, PYLON, and I've also previously volunteered for the ACE (Architecture-Construction-Engineering) Mentor Program which I participated in for 3 years both in Connecticut and Rhode Island.