Rose Florian is a Black Puerto Rican architect, artist, and independent researcher with nearly a decade of experience across commercial, residential, transportation, healthcare, and urban design projects. Her practice centers on the intersection of race, colonialism, and feminism as a lens to examine the systems that shape our built environment. She believes in the power of design to challenge hierarchy and create space for those who have been historically misrepresented or marginalized.

Rose holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her ongoing research project, Unearthed Spaces, investigates the overlooked architectural contributions of enslaved African technologists in the Caribbean.