WORK

Portland State University - Gateway Center 2022

Mahlum Architects / Seattle Public Schools - Alki Elementary School 2021

Portland State University - Vernier Science Center 2021

BRIC Architecture / Portland Public Schools - Long Range Facilities Plan 2020

Portland Community College - Facilities Plan 2018-2021; Metropolitan Workforce Training Center 2020; Rock Creek Campus Library 2019; Sylvania Campus Health Technology Building 2018

Transforming STEM at Portland State University

Portland State University Student Voices Centered in Design of Renovated Science Building

Space Matters at Portland Community College

Portland Community College Facilities Plan Phase 2

Portland Community College Facilities Plan Phase 1 Description

“From CRT to CLT: A Critical Race Theory Approach to Designing for Equity, Sustainability and Justice,” (co-presented with PCC, BORA) Annual NOMA Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2023.

“Facilities Planning for Community Colleges: Practicing Equity for Educational Inclusion and Belonging,” (co-presented with PCC, Walker Macy, Perkins + Will), SCUP Webinar, 2023.

“Aligning School Space to District Equity Initiatives,” (co-presented with Mahlum and Seattle Public Schools), LearningSCAPES Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 2022.

“Can Space be an Accomplice to Racial and Educational Equity?,” A4LE Washington Chapter Annual Conference, Wenatchee, Washington, 2022.

“REdesigning the Process: How a Critical Race Spatial Lens Transformed our Practice,” (co-presented with BRIC Architecture), A4LE Pacific Northwest Region Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2022.

“Facilities Planning for Community Colleges: Living Laboratories for Education Equity,” (co-presented with PCC, Walker Macy, Perkins + Will), Pacific Region Society for College and University Planning, Eugene, Oregon, 2022.

“Activating Social Change: Opportunities for Strategic Partnerships in Higher Education,” (co-presented with PCC, Bora, Hacker, Home Forward), Pacific Region Society for College and University Planning, Eugene, Oregon, 2022.

“REdesigning the Process: How a Critical Race Spatial Lens Transformed Our Practice,” (co-presented with BRIC), the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) Online Global Gathering and Conference, 2021.

“CampusForward: Inclusive Campus Design” (presented with student co-researcher, Christina Avila and SmithGroup), Equity Track, SXSW, 2021.

“Critical Race Theory in Planning and Design,” (presented with student co-researchers), Future Vision, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Oregon, 2020.

“CRT and Participatory Action Research Design,” Decolonizing Design Research Webinar, American Institute of Architects (AIA), New York, 2020.

“Critical Race Theory: Hurdles and Hopes for Practicing Racial Equity in Design,” (presented with Derrick McDonald, Rachel Schopmeyer, and Rebecca Ocken), Virtual Pacific Region Society for College and University Planning Fall Series, 2020.

“CRT and Spatial Theory: An Approach to Expose the Hidden Curriculum in Campus Planning and College Space,” American Educational Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, 2019.

“Applied Critical Race Theory in Campus Planning and Design,” (presented with student co-researchers), National Society for College and University Planning, Seattle, Washington, 2019.

“Applied CRT and Spatial Theory in Campus Facilities Planning: An Integrated Tool for Participatory Action Research, Intersectional Inquiry, and Institutional Change,” (presented with student co-researchers), Critical Race Studies in Education Association Conference, Los Angeles, California, 2019.

“Exploring Ways to Incorporate Critical Race Theory in Capital Planning,” Pacific Regional Conference, Society for College and University Planning, Boulder, Colorado, 2019.

“Space Matters: Race, Equity, and Design,” (presented with student co-researchers), Student Success and Retention Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2019.

“What Does CRT Have to Do with a Roof?: Applied CRT in Facilities Planning--An Approach to Educational Equity and Inclusion,” American Educational Studies Association Conference, Greenville, South Carolina, 2018.

“Applied Critical Race Theory: Using CRT as a Strategy for Institutional Change,” (co-presented with Dr. Kathryn Hytten), American Educational Studies Association Conference, Greenville, South Carolina, 2018.

“CRT in Facilities Planning: An Innovative Approach to Exploring Race and Space at a Community College,” Pacific Regional Conference, Society for College and University Planning, Los Angeles, California, 2018.

The Classroom is Everywhere. Interview with Dr. Amara H. Pérez by Lillyanne Phạm. The Social Forms of Art (SoFA) Journal, Winter 2023.

Pérez, A. (2020). ‘Colorblind-spots’ in campus design. Planning in Higher Education Journal 49(1), 1-5.

Pérez, A. (2020). What does CRT have to do with a roof?: Critical race spatial praxis — An equity approach to institutional planning, college design, and campus space (Publication No. 27829526) [Doctoral dissertation, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro]. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

Pérez, A. (2019). Landscape literacy: Teaching to read the world through a curricular-spatial analysis. The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 10(1), 141-158.