Ali Kopyt received the 2025 Impact Awardee by the UWM Alumni Association. The award was presented during the Alumni Awards Evening on February 21, 2025, at The Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ali is a rising star architect with a passion for historic preservation, adaptive reuse and affordable housing. Prior to joining KORB, she worked for Kahler Slater and Quorum Architects. Ali also has experience with firms in Seattle and the Boston area. She is the co-founder of Women in Design-Milwaukee (WIDMKE), where she plans monthly programming, leads their annual Canstruction event, and coordinates their Advancing into Firm Leadership seminar. WIDMKE received a Diversity Best Practices Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2019. Ali is a founding partner in Mobile Design Box, a community outreach initiative between the city of Milwaukee and UWM\u2019s School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Ali received AIA Wisconsin\u2019s Young Architect Award in 2021 and was among 50 young leaders selected to participate in Next City\u2019s 2017 Vanguard Conference at their first international gathering in Newcastle, Australia. She serves on the Parent Board of Directors at her daughter\u2019s school and spearheaded the campaign to get the Milwaukee Soldiers Home listed as one of the National Trust for Historic Places 11 Most Endangered when she served on the board of the Milwaukee Preservation Alliance. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in architecture from Northeastern University in Boston and completed coursework in historic preservation at the University of Washington in Seattle and with the University of Oregon in Italy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1653,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"class_list":["post-1764","class_notes","type-class_notes","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n