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Irina Kostka-Da Silva

Irina Kostka-Da Silva is the managing director of IK Architecture, an architectural firm located in Saint George, Grenada.

Djamila Mary P Gomes

Djamila Mary P. Gomes is the CEO of Arkikasa Sarl, an architectural firm located in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau (2025–).

Frances Batty Shand

1800s Jamaican-British social worker

Magali Régis

Magali Régis is the first US-licensed Haitian woman architect; she became a registered architect in New York state (1993).

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).

Hayatte Ndiaye

Hayatte Ndiaye is the first woman architect in Chad, the first woman to be nominated and selected as President of the National Order of Architects of Chad (ONAT, 2019–2022), and the first Chadian elected as a member of the International Union of Architects (UIA).

Mélissa Kacoutié

Mélissa Kacoutié is the Founder and Principal Architect at Jeannette Studio Architecture, an architectural firm located in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (2016).

Dettu Numbi Mbabi

Detty Numbi Mbabi is the founder of Studio D RDC, an architecture and urban planning firm based in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (2017–), and a licensed architect with the Ordre National des Architectes du Congo, ONA.

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).

Caroline

On Sunday, June 9, 1839, Caroline, a Black woman enslaved by Minerva Buchanan Crawford and Andrew Alexander Crawford, was hanged in Cane Hill Township in Washington County, Arkansas.