Maya Bird-Murphy

Maya Bird-Murphy was born in 1992 in Chicago, and grew up in Oak Park, a village near Chicago, Illinois. She attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, graduating in 2014 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture. She completed a Masters in Architecture at Boston Architectural College (BAC), graduating in 2017. == Career ==

Maya launched Mobile Makers Chicago as a nonprofit organization in September 2017 right before she graduated. Since the conception of Mobile Makers Chicago, Bird-Murphy has simultaneously worked at a variety of other institutions and organizations. She has worked as Architecture Adventure Program Coordinator at the Oak Park Education Foundation (OPEF) and is a part-time faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. == Awards and honors ==

Maya has received the following awards: • 2018 - Emerging Designer Award from the BAC Alumni Association. • 2020 - Alan Madison Award from AIA Illinois. • 2021 - Graduates of the Last Decade (G.O.L.D.) Award from Ball State University's College of Architecture and Planning. • 2022 - Pierre Keller Award from Hublot. • 2022 - Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab Award from Theaster Gates, Prada Group, and Rebuild Foundation. In 2018, she was named as an AIGA Design + Diversity Conference National Fellow. The same year, she was featured in The American Institute of Architects' (AIA) Emerging Professionals Exhibition 2018 for Mobile Makers. She was one of the ten who received the 2018 Jason Pettigrew Memorial ARE (Architect Registration Examination) Scholarship from AIA. She was named in ''Newcity Magazine's'' 2022 list of fifty people who have shaped design in Chicago. == See also ==