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Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP, is an American architect, educator, and the founder of New York-based architecture firm Deborah Berke Partners. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and The City University of New York. Among the firm's most significant works are the Residential Colleges at Princeton University, the Cummins Indy Distribution Headquarters in Indianapolis, the Rockefeller Arts Center at SUNY Fredonia, the Yale School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut, and the 21c Museum Hotels across the South and Midwest of the United States. Deborah is the the first woman to hold the position of Dean of the Yale School of Architecture and has been a Professor at Yale since 1987. In 2012, she was the inaugural recipient of the Berkeley-Rupp Prize at UC Berkeley, which is given to an architect who has advanced the position of women in the profession and whose work emphasises a commitment to sustainability and the community. She is a board member of the James Howell Foundation, a member of the board of directors of Yaddo, and an advisor to the Norman Foster Foundation. She serves on the jury for the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In 2005, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.