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2021 Whitney M. Young Jr. Award Recipient: Pascale Sablan
Pascale Sablan, FAIA, NOMA, LEED AP Sabian is the 2021 Whitney M. Young Jr. Award Recipient. An architect and activist, she is the 315th living African-American female registered architect in the United States and the youngest African-American to be elevated to the AIA College of Fellows. Beyond her work at Adjaye Associates, Pascale is the founder & executive director of Beyond the Built Environment, positioned to uniquely address the inequitable disparities in architecture by providing a holistic platform aimed to support numerous stages of the architecture pipeline. Beyond the Build Environment is the champion agency behind initiatives such as the SAY IT LOUD exhibits, SAY IT WITH – Me(dia), and the Great Diverse Designers Library. Pascale is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2018 AIA Young Architects Award. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University.
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