Ali Kopyt honored with Impact Award by UWM Alumni Association
Ali Kopyt ’08 (M.Arch, MUP) was recently awarded the 2025 Impact Award by the UWM Alumni Association. Kopyt 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. Kopyt 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.
Kopyt is a founding partner in Mobile Design Box, a community outreach initiative between the city of Milwaukee and UWM’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Kopyt received AIA Wisconsin’s Young Architect Award in 2021 and was among 50 young leaders selected to participate in Next City’s 2017 Vanguard Conference at their first international gathering in Newcastle, Australia. She serves on the Parent Board of Directors at her daughter’s 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’s 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.
“The UWM Alumni Association is privileged to represent over 207,000 Panther alumni living in 110 countries around the world,” said Board Chair Michelle Putz in the UWM Alumni Awards Evening program booklet. “Our alumni make a difference in their communities both near and far, though we feel especially fortunate that more than 80% of graduates from the last decade have chosen to remain in the state of Wisconsin.”
Kopyt was honored alongside other award recipients at the UWM Alumni Awards Evening at the Pfister Hotel in February 2025. Learn more about the UWM Alumni Awards on the University Advancement website.
