Natasha Espada

Natasha Espada, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP BD+C, is the founder and Principal of STUDIO ENÉE architects. She has over 30 years of experience with cultural, civic, higher education, residential, and commercial projects. Natasha was the 2020 President of the Boston Society of Architects (BSA)/AIA and co-chair of the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice Task Force. She has been a speaker on Equity and Practice at the AIA Grassroots Conference in Washington, D.C., AIA Connecticut’s Equity Summit, and a juror for the 2021 AIA Impact Awards. Natasha is an active member of the BSA’s Women’s Principal's group, a presenter at the AIA Women’s Leadership Summit, the curator of the WID exhibit: Urban Interventions: Women Designing in Boston, and part of the 2022 AIA Puerto Rico Women in Architecture Exhibit. Natasha was an Adjunct Professor at Northeastern University and a design critic/lecturer at Harvard GSD, MIT, Yale, Wentworth, MassArt, Princeton, Auburn, and the BAC. She serves as the chair of the Town of Needham's Planning Board, Climate Action Plan Committee, Co-Chair of Needham's Affordable Housing Planning Group, and Board Member for Needham United Against Racism. Natasha is a graduate of the University of Florida, holds a Master’s degree in architecture from the University of Virginia with a certificate in American Urbanism, and, in 2021, was awarded an honorary doctorate from Wentworth Institute of Technology.