Ashley Schafer is Associate Professor of Architecture with Tenure in the Architecture Section Head of the Ohio State University. She is the cofounder and coeditor of PRAXIS: Writing and Building and has her own architecture and digital design office. She holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science, Architecture, minor in English from the University of Virginia. Her work has been awarded several times, as she received the National Endowment for the Arts in 2005.