Kamaiya Johnson – Neighborhood Design Center

Kamaiya is an architectural & multidisciplinary designer originally from Prince George's county Maryland. She recently returned home after receiving her Master's degree in Architecture from the University of Michigan. Before that they received their Bachelor's of Fine Arts Degree from the Savannah College of Art & Design.

From her studies and lived experience she developed a passion for liberatory and cultural practices and the ways they can be used to transform and shape the built environment through cultural understanding and collaboration. Kamaiya believes in exploring the ways communities can have agency in how their environments are shaped as well as the power of imagination and creative expression as ways to envision new and alternative futures. When not working Kamaiya can be found spending time in her family's garden, watching cartoons, or teaching themselves a new craft.