Lizabeth Wardzinski is an architectural historian, educator, and practitioner whose work spans postwar planning history, anti-racist design pedagogy, and community-engaged research. She holds a PhD from North Carolina State University’s College of Design, a Master of Architecture from Iowa State University, and a bachelor’s degree in three-dimensional art from the University of Iowa. Her dissertation, “A Model for the World: Tennessee Valley Authority and Postwar Development,” examines how the TVA shaped models of development and decentralization across the American South and postwar regions of modernization. Her teaching and research focus on Detroit’s McDougall Hunt neighborhood, where she and her students investigate the long-term impacts of urban renewal and explore how design professions can confront discriminatory histories while imagining more equitable futures.