Hazel Edwards was appointed in 2016 as the first woman to lead the Department of Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture at Howard University. Edwards previously taught in the graduate city planning programs at Morgan State University and The Catholic University of America, where she also served as the planning program director. Over her career, Edwards has combined place-related research with planning and urban design practice and teaching. She received a bachelor of architecture degree from Howard University and a master of architecture degree in urban design from Harvard University. Edwards earned a PhD in regional planning from the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign before studying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Carolina Minority Postdoctoral Scholar. She is a certified planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners and was elected to its College of Fellows in 2018.
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