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May 29, 2024
# Faculty of Design Professor Given Award
A big congratulations goes out to our very own Professor Maya Desai who was part of a group who received the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada Advocate for Architecture award as a co-recipient with other BEAT volunteer members (Building Equality Architecture Toronto). More information is available here: https://raic.org/awards/2024-raic-advocate-architecture.
Congrats again Maya!
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