Naomi Keena

Naomi Keena is Assistant Professor at McGill University’s School of Architecture. She is the founding director of McGill’s TRACE Lab, the Think-tank and Research in Architecture and Circular Economy lab, where she leads a team of researchers investigating data driven, life cycle approaches to grand challenges such as Canada’s housing supply crisis and socio-ecological design in the building sector. SSHRC, CMHC, FRQSC, Mitacs and UNEP support TRACE Lab’s research projects. Keena holds a PhD from RPI and a Postdoc from Yale University. Keena is a Fulbright Fellowship recipient. She has published her research widely and is a lead author of the UNEP and Yale CEA report Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future and co-authored with Avi Friedman the book Sustainable Housing in a Circular Economy (Routledge, 2024).