Sharon Egretta Sutton

Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA Member Emeritus, is currently distinguished visiting professor of architecture at Parsons School of Design. She is the author of When Ivory Towers Were Black (Fordham University Press, 2017), which chronicles the late 1960s activism at Columbia University that spurred changes in recruitment and curriculum, leading to greater numbers of black architecture graduate students. Sutton was the 12th registered African-American woman architect in the United States.