Architect Dina Griffin’s career is a rich tapestry of defining moments. There was the moment as a teenager growing up on Chicago’s South Side when she elected to take an architectural drafting class instead of home economics. There was the moment during college at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign when a caring professor encouraged her not to drop out of the architecture program. There was the moment in 1994 when she received her architectural license—something only a handful of other Black women in the state of Illinois had achieved at that time.
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