Founder|Owner – DesignCyphers Community Design Consultants LLCImmediate Past Southern California NOMA Treasurer Current External Advisory Board for Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University.Dawn has a passion for enhancing urban environments through influences of social and cultural forces that help shape built environments. Dawn has worked to develop community led strategies in affordable housing in Los Angeles helping create inclusive communities in affordable ways. With a focus on Community Led Design, Dawn works to facilitate dynamic engagement between architects, developers and the communities they serve, for the purposes of co-creating design and development. In 2022, Dawn founded DesignCyphers, a consulting company focused on helping architects and developers engage communities through a participatory design approach. Since her Master thesis on Hip Hop Inspired Architecture, Dawn works to promote diversity and inclusion by fostering collaborative design engagement and uplifting community voice within the design and development processes.