Zoë Toledo

Biography

Zoë Toledo is a Diné Asdzáán and a member of the Navajo Nation who believes that the built environment should reflect kinship and honor the lived experiences of community members.

As a designer and researcher, Zoë focuses on narrative change, using archives, storytelling, and memory to center land and Indigenous frameworks within architecture and design. Her research has been published in The Avery Review and recognized with the Grace May Tilton Prize in Fine Arts. She also teaches design studios at Arizona State University and co-founded the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective.

Zoë graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Princeton University and holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design.