Sophia Xiao-Fan Austrins Email & Phone Number

Sophia Xiao-fan Austrins (she/they) is an architect, artist, and facilitator strengthening community and culture through design activism. They are a director with Colloqate Design, a nonprofit practice seeking to design spaces of racial, social, and cultural justice throughout the built environment. In her work designing libraries, community centers, resource hubs, housing, installations and exhibits, and spaces for creativity and learning; she seeks to share the power of the built environment with communities who have been left out of our design processes and storytelling; not only because they deserve to create their own futures, but also to find the moments of delight and community growth that the act of designing together can create.As an extension of her service to just community development, Sophia is on the Jade District Steering Committee, working towards place based, community building and economic development in one of the most diverse census tracts in the state of Oregon; she sits on the Regional Arts and Culture Council’s Public Art Committee; is an artist and facilitator with the Living Arts program at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon, using art to strengthen community through experiential and interactive programming around culture and identity; and as co-chair of the National Organization of Minority Architects’ Community Outreach and Engagement in Portland, she organizes youth programming for Middle School students from communities of color to learn how they can make an impact in their own neighborhoods and futures through Architecture and design.

Listed skills include Rhino 3D, Indesign, Revit, Illustrator, and 17 others.