Business Archives - Infinite Women

Annie Jouga

Annie Jouga is the first Senegalese woman to register with the Order of Architects of Senegal (1979).

Lauano Lauina Grace

Lauano Lauina Grace is co-founder and director of Grace and Grace Plus (G.G.P.), a multidisciplinary architecture firm with locations in Sydney, Australia (2014), and Tamaligi, Samoa (2017).

Nina Maritz

Nina Maritz is founder and director of Nina Maritz Architects and co-founder of Greenspace, a non-governmental organization (NGO); both are located in Windhoek, Nambia.

Noella Nibakuze

Noella Nibakuze is design director at MASS Design Group in Kigali, Rwanda

Maria Gabriela Carrilho Aragão

Maria Gabriela Carrilho Aragão is the founder and principal architect of A OFICINA — Design e Arquitetura, E.I., a micro design and architecture studio based in Maputo, Mozambique (2018–).

Carla Juaçaba is one of ten architects commissioned to design and build one of the ten Vatican Chapels for the “Holy See Pavilion” exhibition curated by Francesco Dal Co, which was the debut of Vatican City at the Venice Architecture Bienniale (2018).

Thato Nkikana

Thato Nkikana is a founder and managing director of Basa Architects and Contractors, an architecture firm and construction company in Maseru, Lesotho, which she established to provide more employability for women who work in industries affiliated with the built environment.

Aviaaja Karlshøj Knudsen

Aviaaja Karlshøj Knudsen is the CEO of NunaGreen A/S (2024–), a company in Nuuk, Greenland, that focuses on transitioning Greenland to renewable energy through the use of hydropower infrastructure.

Heidi Bonilla de Cienfuegos

Heidi Bonilla de Cienfuegos is the co-founder and Director of B100arquitectos in San Salvador, El Salvador (2007), a former bioclimatic architecture professor at the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas in San Salvador, and the first architect in El Salvador to earn the following accreditations related to sustainable construction: LEED AP BD+C (2018), True Advisor (2020), Living Future Accredited professional (2021), Arc Performance Pro (2021), and LEED Green Rater (2021).

Karen Richards-Barnes

Karen Richards-Barnes is a founding partner, vice-president, and principal architect at Pan-African Engineering Group (PAEG), an architectural and engineering consulting firm located in Liberia.