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. Haferd’s research and practice critically engages built environment projects in both urban and rural contexts, often looking to marginalized histories to unlock a new imaginary for architecture, design, and cultural infrastructure.