Kristine Stiphany, PhD, AIA, is an architect and urban planner who investigates the social, technical, and cultural dimensions that shape urban redevelopment in the Americas, with a focus on housing informality and participatory technologies in Brazil and along the U.S. – Mexico border.

Stiphany is a Fulbright Fellow, the founder of the Chapa Civic Data Lab, co-editor of the Latin American Housing Network, and recipient of several design awards, most recently from the Texas Society of Architects. Stiphany has published in Urban Studies, Journal of Architectural Education, Latin American Research Review, and the Journal of Planning Education and Research, among others.

She received a PhD in Urban Planning from the University of Texas at Austin, where she also earned a Master of Architecture, and a Bachelor of Fine Art in Photography from the University of Michigan.