Toni L. Griffin is Professor of Architecture and the founding Director of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. Founded in 2011, the Bond Center is dedicated to the advancement of design practice, education, research and advocacy in ways that build and sustain resilient and just communities, cities and regions.

Griffin also maintains an active private practice, Urban Planning and Design for the American City, based in New York. Through the practice, Griffin recently served as director the long range planning initiative of the Detroit Work Project, and in 2012 completed and released Detroit Future City, a comprehensive city-wide framework plan for urban transformation.

Prior to returning to private practice, Griffin was the Director of Community Development for the City of Newark, New Jersey; Vice President and Director of Design for the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation in Washington, D.C.; Deputy Director for Revitalization Planning and Neighborhood Planning in the D.C. Office of Planning; and Vice President for Planning & Tourism Development for the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation in New York City.

Griffin began her career as an architect with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP in Chicago. She received a Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame and a Loeb Fellowship from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. . . . short bio

Toni L. Griffin is Professor of Architecture and the founding Director of the J. Max Bond Center on Design for the Just City at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York. Founded in 2011, the Bond Center is dedicated to the advancement of design practice, education, research and advocacy in ways that build and sustain resilient and just communities, cities and regions.

Griffin also maintains an active private practice, Urban Planning and Design for the American City, based in New York . . . full bio