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Maya Bird-Murphy

to know about architecture. She grew up surrounded by Frank Lloyd Wright houses in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and her own youth was steeped in the lessons of good design. Local summer camps and field trips to Prairie-style homes gave her the opportunity to consider a career in reshaping the future of our cities. As one of the few people of color in her undergraduate program at

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