Joan Snitzer, with Claudia Russell

Claudia Russell has been dedicated to the craft of making buildings.  She graduated from the University of Virginia, the Catholic University and Columbia University all in architecture and design which has been both her passion and profession.  Her studies took her abroad with a traveling fellowship to India and additional travel around the world studying vernacular architecture.  Her work experience includes embassies with the US State Department; notable buildings such as the Hynes Convention Center for Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood in Boston; and a large complex in Singapore for Tsao and McKown out of New York.  For the last 20 years she worked at Shalom Baranes Associates here in DC and had the good fortune to be the project architect for the Apartments at CityCenterDC, some of the residences at City Market at O and affordable housing for Channing Phillips Homes among other projects.  She has been pleased to have played a part in DC’s revitalization.  She has taught architectural design and found joy in studying drawing and painting.  She is currently working on local social justice issues as she embarks on the next chapter of life's odyssey.