Norma Sklarek Humanitarian Award

Immigrant Architects Coalition  Established in 2019, Immigrant Architects Coalition is the newest entity to receive recognition in the 2024 California Awards suite; its work is no less essential to the field, its body of work, already audacious—take the publication, in 2022 of City Shapers: Stories of Immigrant Designers; its impact already felt. The work of the Immigrant Architects Coalition (IAC) makes it a perfect fit for the Norma Sklarek Humanitarian Award which recognizes an architect or architecturally oriented organization for their social responsibility. Sklarek opened her own doors: She was the first Black woman licensed in California (as well as New York), and the first Black woman to become a member of the AIA, and, through mentorship, opened doors for others.