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Deanna Van Buren

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Design Director & Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces

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Deanna Van Buren Biography

Deanna Van Buren is the design director and co-founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), an architecture and real estate development non-profit working to end mass incarceration by building infrastructure that attacks its root causes: poverty, racism, unequal access to resources, and the criminal justice system itself.

Unlike the traditional adversarial and punitive architecture of justice—courthouses, prisons and jails—the Oakland-based DJDS creates spaces and buildings for restorative justice, rehabilitation and community building. Examples include restorative justice centers, which bring offenders and victims together to repair the relationship breach caused by a crime and build pathways to reconciliation; mobile resource centers, which deliver economic, educational, and social resources to under-resourced communities; and re-entry housing for people coming out of incarceration.

A pioneering activist, Van Buren has been recognized internationally for her leadership in using architecture, design, and real estate innovations to address the social inequities behind the mass incarceration crisis. Her 2017 TEDWomen talk on what a world without prisons could look like has been viewed more than one million times, and she is the only architect to have been awarded the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship.

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    Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Deanna Van Buren for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Deanna Van Buren, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Deanna Van Buren or any other speaker of your choice.
  • What are the speaker fees for Deanna Van Buren

    Speaking fees for Deanna Van Buren, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Deanna Van Buren are available upon request for live events and $10,000 - $20,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Deanna Van Buren, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Deanna Van Buren speak about?

    Deanna Van Buren is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Activism, Architecture, Art, Black History, Creativity Speakers, Culture, Diversity Speakers, Lifestyle, Social Justice, TED, Virtual Speakers.
  • Where does Deanna Van Buren travel from?

    Deanna Van Buren generally travels from San Francisco, CA, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
  • Who is Deanna Van Buren’s agent?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Deanna Van Buren for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Deanna Van Buren for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Deanna Van Buren or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.
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Design Director & Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces

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Deanna Van Buren Biography

Deanna Van Buren is the design director and co-founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces (DJDS), an architecture and real estate development non-profit working to end mass incarceration by building infrastructure that attacks its root causes: poverty, racism, unequal access to resources, and the criminal justice system itself.

Unlike the traditional adversarial and punitive architecture of justice—courthouses, prisons and jails—the Oakland-based DJDS creates spaces and buildings for restorative justice, rehabilitation and community building. Examples include restorative justice centers, which bring offenders and victims together to repair the relationship breach caused by a crime and build pathways to reconciliation; mobile resource centers, which deliver economic, educational, and social resources to under-resourced communities; and re-entry housing for people coming out of incarceration.

A pioneering activist, Van Buren has been recognized internationally for her leadership in using architecture, design, and real estate innovations to address the social inequities behind the mass incarceration crisis. Her 2017 TEDWomen talk on what a world without prisons could look like has been viewed more than one million times, and she is the only architect to have been awarded the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship.

Deanna Van Buren Videos

  • Keynote Highlight: Shaka Senghor and Deanna Van Buren
    Shaka Senghor (President/Creative Director of Shaka Senghor, Inc.) and Deanna Van Buren (Design Director & Co-Founder of Designing Justice +...
  • What a world without prisons could look like | Deanna Van Buren
    Deanna Van Buren designs restorative justice centers that, instead of taking the punitive approach used by a system focused on mass incarceration,...
  • Using social innovation to end mass incarceration
    Hear from social entrepreneurs who are bringing justice back to the criminal justice system. Featuring Echoing Green Fellows Gina Clayton of Essie...

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FAQs on booking Deanna Van Buren

  • How do I book Deanna Van Buren to speak at my event?

    Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Deanna Van Buren for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Deanna Van Buren, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Deanna Van Buren or any other speaker of your choice.
  • What are the speaker fees for Deanna Van Buren

    Speaking fees for Deanna Van Buren, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Deanna Van Buren are available upon request for live events and $10,000 - $20,000 for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Deanna Van Buren, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
  • What topics does Deanna Van Buren speak about?

    Deanna Van Buren is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Activism, Architecture, Art, Black History, Creativity Speakers, Culture, Diversity Speakers, Lifestyle, Social Justice, TED, Virtual Speakers.
  • Where does Deanna Van Buren travel from?

    Deanna Van Buren generally travels from San Francisco, CA, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
  • Who is Deanna Van Buren’s agent?

    AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Deanna Van Buren for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Deanna Van Buren for your next private or corporate function.
  • What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

    AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Deanna Van Buren or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
  • Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

    If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.

Deanna Van Buren is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics . The estimated speaking fee range to book Deanna Van Buren for your event is available upon request. Deanna Van Buren generally travels from San Francisco, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Dorothy Roberts, Jamilah Lemieux, Yoruba Richen, Charlene Carruthers and Fania Davis. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Deanna Van Buren for an upcoming live or virtual event.

Deanna Van Buren Speaker Videos

  • Keynote Highlight: Shaka Senghor and Deanna Van Buren
    Shaka Senghor (President/Creative Director of Shaka Senghor, Inc.) and Deanna Van Buren (Design Director & Co-Founder of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces) shared powerful firsthand experiences...
    What a world without prisons could look like | Deanna Van Buren
    Deanna Van Buren designs restorative justice centers that, instead of taking the punitive approach used by a system focused on mass incarceration, treat crime as a breach of relationships and justice...
  • Using social innovation to end mass incarceration
    Hear from social entrepreneurs who are bringing justice back to the criminal justice system. Featuring Echoing Green Fellows Gina Clayton of Essie Justice Group, Glenn Martin of JustLeadershipUSA,...
    Design Talk: Designing a Better America with Deanna Van Buren
    Talk by Deanna Van Buren, architect and coordinator of the Designing Justice + Designing Spaces project. This talk is a part of Autodesk’s Design Night. Designing Justice+Designing Spaces...
  • Artist as Activist Fellow- Deanna Van Buren
    The Pop-Up Resource Village is harnessing the impact of design to address the social challenges that both lead to and have been created by mass incarceration. It does so through a new mobile...

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This website is a resource for event professionals and strives to provide the most comprehensive catalog of thought leaders and industry experts to consider for speaking engagements. A listing or profile on this website does not imply an agency affiliation or endorsement by the talent.

All American Entertainment (AAE) exclusively represents the interests of talent buyers, and does not claim to be the agency or management for any speaker or artist on this site. AAE is a talent booking agency for paid events only. We do not handle requests for donation of time or media requests for interviews, and cannot provide celebrity contact information.

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