Kari Smith, Interim Associate Dean

Interim Associate Dean and Professor 
The College of the Arts

Coastal Community Resilience Studio Co-Director
Institute for Coastal Ecology and Engineering Fellow
Center for Louisiana Studies Fellow

Kari Smith, LEED AP, is the Director and a Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette School of Architecture and Design. Her education culminated in a Master of Architecture from Rice University. As an educator and designer, Smith maintains a critical engagement to architecture that improves social-ecological conditions, especially relating to water issues, through systemic resilience thinking and trans-disciplinary collaborations.