Co-Executive Director, Detroit Collaborative Design Center
Professor of Practice, School of Architecture
University of Detroit Mercy
Detroit, MI, USA
Email: olearycm@udmercy.edu Phone: 313-993-1037
Interest in CDE Collaborative
I can't wait to participate in the CDE Collaborative. I am particularly interested in sharing, researching and writing about teaching community engagement.
Quick Bio
Ceara O’Leary, AIA, is a Co-Executive Director at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center (DCDC), where she leads collaborative community design and planning projects citywide. She is also a Professor of Practice at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture, teaching public interest design and community development courses. Ceara joined the DCDC in 2012 as an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow. She speaks nationally on DCDC’s work and community design and development and is the Immediate Past Chair of the AIA Housing and Community Development Knowledge Community Advisory Group. In 2015 Ceara was named a “Top Urban Innovator” by Next City Vanguard and completed a fellowship with the ULI Larsen Center for Leadership. Previously, Ceara worked as a Community Designer with bcWORKSHOP and a Public Design Intern at the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio in Biloxi, Mississippi. Ceara graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with Masters degrees in Architecture and City & Regional Planning and she earned her undergraduate degree from Brown University.