Deanna Van Buren is an award-winning architect and a leading voice in the movement to dismantle mass incarceration through design. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), an Oakland-based nonprofit that creates innovative alternatives to traditional prisons and courthouses by building centers for restorative justice, reentry housing, and spaces of community support. Her projects—including Restore Oakland, the Near Westside Peacemaking Project, and mobile “pop-up villages”—demonstrate how architecture can advance reconciliation, economic equity, and healing. Van Buren is the only architect to receive the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship and has been recognized with the Berkeley-Rupp Prize and the Royal Society of Arts Bicentenary Medal. She lectures widely, including at TEDWomen, and has been featured in The New York Times and Financial Times. Through her work, Van Buren shows how architects can radically reimagine justice and design for liberation.