Menna Agha

Associate Professor of Design and Spatial Justice and the founding Director of the Architecture Action Lab, Carleton University

Dr. Menna Agha is an architecture activist and a researcher. She is an Associate Professor of Design and Spatial Justice and the founding Director of the Architecture Action Lab. She is cross-appointed at Carleton University’s Institute for African Studies. Menna holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of Antwerp and a Master of Arts in Gender and Design from Köln International School of Design. In 2019/2020, she was the Spatial Justice Fellow and a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. Menna is a third-generation displaced Nubian woman, a legacy that infuses her research interests in race, gender, space, and territory.