Samantha Eddy

MArch

Samantha Eddy (she/her) is a Diné researcher/designer from Red Lake, Tonalea, Arizona and currently based in Cambridge, MA. Experiencing the urban fabric disparities between the city and reservation has led to her interest in using architecture as a tool to strengthen her Diné community. Her work is at the intersections of architecture, community action research, and intergenerational knowledge. She works with Nááts'íilid Initiative, a Community Development Collaborative building sweat equity homes and other infrastructural developments in various regions in the Navajo Nation. 

She received her B.S. in Architectural Studies and Minor in American Indian Studies from the University of Utah, and is currently pursuing a Master of Architecture from MIT.

Projects
Walking with Dinetah
Walking With Dinétah is a community art and trail walking initiative dedicated to co-creating strategies for cultural resilience and healing through spatialized oral histories, memory work, mapmaking, and participatory art—in other words, through Hózhó náhásdlíí’, or “walking in beauty.”
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Contact

eddysam@mit.edu