María Margarita Egaña Fernández
Born in 1921 in Havana, Cuba, María Margarita Egaña Fernández was in the first generation of women to work as architects in Cuba.
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Lavina Liburd
Born in St. Kitts and Nevis, Lavina Liburd is the founder and principal architect of TigerQi Architecture in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, and a licensed architect in California, United States.
Vicki Telford
Vicki Telford is the first and only woman to serve as president of the Barbados Institute of Architects (BIA, 2003–2005 and 2018–2019).
Tiffany Tate
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tiffany Tate created a vaccination tracker called PrepMod, used by public health departments across the U.S. for flu and other mass vaccinations.
Nana Akua Akumfi Ameah Oppong-Birmeh
Nana Akua Akumfi Ameah Oppong-Birmeh is the founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Principal Architect of Arch Xenus, a majority women and women-led architecture firm in Accra, Ghana.
Djamila Mary P Gomes
Djamila Mary P. Gomes is the CEO of Arkikasa Sarl, an architectural firm located in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau (2025–).
Cinthya Andino
Honduran architect
Rahel Shawl
Rahel Shawl is the founder and principal architect of RAAS Architects in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2004–) and a co-founder of Equinox Property Developers Plc, in Addis Ababa (2014-); she was also a co-founder of Abba Architects in Addis Ababa (1994–2004).
Magali Régis
Magali Régis is the first US-licensed Haitian woman architect; she became a registered architect in New York state (1993).
Emma Miloyo
Emma Miloyo is co-founder and architect at Design Source in Nairobi, Kenya (2007). She served as the first woman president of the Architectural Association of Kenya (2017–2019), and was a Founding Board Member of Women in Real Estate (WIRE).