Marcus Garvey Park - Culture, Creativity & Care Initiative

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Jerome W Haferd is a licensed architect, public artist, and educator based in Harlem, NYC. He is assistant professor of architecture at City College’s Spitzer School of Architecture. Haferd is principal of award-winning studio Jerome Haferd Architecture and co-founder of BRANDT : HAFERD Architecture. He is also a core initiator of Dark Matter U (DMU), a BIPOC led network geared towards new models of design pedagogy and practice.  Haferd received the 2022 #BlackVisionaries award as part of a DMU cohort. He is co-director for the Mellon funded Place Memory and Culture Incubator at Spitzer School of Architecture beginning in Fall 2023.