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Siboney Díaz Sánchez is a creative committed to prioritizing communities in design and policy processes. She currently serves as the community engagement administrator for the City of San Antonio's Neighborhood and Housing Services Department and is a Policy Link Transformative Justice Infrastructure Fellow.

Prior to returning to San Antonio, Siboney was an Enterprise Rose Fellow and project/design manager at Opportunities Communities in the Boston area working for two non-profit community development corporations, The Neighborhood Developers and Nuestra Comunidad.  While in Boston she developed design standards for affordable housing, helped secure funding for a low income housing tax credit housing development, led a community engagement process for a public arts park during a pandemic and served on the Boston Society of Architects board of directors.

 

She organized with the Design As Protest 

Planning and Policy Committee and taught Community Practice at The Boston Architectural College. In 2021 she joined the Association for Community Design board of directors and served as a National Organization of Minority Architecture (NOMA) board of directors Empowerment Committee Co-Chair and was a co-chair for Latinos in Architecture at AIA San Antonio. 

Siboney insists creative fields are viable mechanisms for social change and believes in just redistribution of systemic power through design. She is committed to prioritizing community voices in design processes. She is a licensed architect in the state of Texas and holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University.

CONSULTING SERVICES

Participatory Design

Community Design / Community Practice 

Non-profit arts organization facility strategies

Open Space Facilitation

Placekeeping / Placeaffirming Strategies

Panel Moderation / Jury Review

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