Virajita Singh, Senior Research Fellow, LEED AP, singh023@umn

Virajita Singh is a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Sustainable Building Research and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture, College of Design. Virajita is currently involved in developing a sustainable design program that engages students from the College of Design to help communities, non-profits and local governments interested in implementing sustainable goals. Virajita had been awarded two fellowships for the year 2009 – 2010, the Buckman Fellowship in Leadership and Philanthropy and the Multicultural Teaching and Learning Fellowship, in connection to her work with communities.

Virajita has a bachelor's degree in architecture from Mumbai, India, a master's degree in architecture from the University of Minnesota and is a LEED accredited professional. Outside architecture and sustainability, Virajita passion lies in areas of social justice, culture, sacred spaces, and the arts. She volunteers regularly at a local homeless shelter and at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as a Collection-in-Focus Guide for the museum's Arts of China collection.