Amanda Ugorji

Amanda Ugorji is a designer and artist interested in the potential for interdisciplinary design to act as a conduit for justice and equity. In 2024 she completed her Masters degree in Architecture at MIT. Before arriving at MIT, she worked in film, urban planning, and community engagement in New York City. In her undergraduate degree, she investigated topics such as the social-industrial complexes that dominate the economic structures in the US, the spatialization of memory, Black feminist practices, and the historical role of women in architecture. As both a generalist and architectural practitioner, her goal is to continue to work with collaborators on contextually specific projects that move toward a more just and joyful future. 

She was the recipient of the John A Lyons fellowship in 2021. In 2022, she received the Marjorie Pierce [1922] / Dean William Emerson Fellowship Award - awarded to a second-year female Master of Architecture student in recognition of outstanding academic and design achievement.

She is a recent recipient of a Council of the Arts at MIT grant in 2021. As well as a CAMIT seed grant in 2022.

She was awarded the Ennis Research Grant and the Harold Horowitz (1951) Student Research Fund to pursue independent research centering the relationship between space and belonging in 2022.

In 2021, she co-founded just practice with Sophie Weston Chien.