Tya Winn, MArch

Tya Winn is the Executive Director of the Community Design Collaborative and an Adjunct Professor at Thomas Jefferson University. She also serves on the Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustments. Ms. Winn focuses on equitable development practices, anti- racist design justice principles, and how experience of the built environment shapes perceptions of place.  

She is also an organizer and core member of the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter U.  She currently serves on the AIA Philadelphia Board of Directors as Public Member and Director of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.  Since then she has focused her career on real estate and community development; prioritizing affordable housing creation, economic development, creative place-making and urban revitalization.  She is an active member of the National Organization of Minority Architects, serving nationally as the Conference Advisor; locally in PhilaNOMA she is a past president and former Project Pipeline Director. From 2015, -2024 she co-chaired the Housing Subcommittee of the West Philadelphia Promise Zone (WPPZ). From 2017- 2018 she traveled internationally observing the design of public housing as the Stewardson Keefe Lebrun Travel grant recipient. In practice, Tya focuses on equitable development practices, anti- racist design justice principles, and how experience of the built environment shapes perceptions of place.