Wanda Dalla Costa is a practicing architect and professor who has been co-designing with North American indigenous communities for nearly two decades. Her teaching and research focuses include indigenous place-keeping, culturally responsive design, sustainable housing, and climate resiliency in architecture. Dalla Costa currently teaches at Arizona State University as Institute Professor and Associate Professor in The Design School and the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment. She is a member of Saddle Lake Cree Nation and the first First Nations woman architect in Canada. She is founding principal and owner of the firm, Redquill Architecture Inc., which is based in Phoenix, Arizona. She was one of eighteen indigenous architects representing Canada in the Venice Arch