# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sharon-sutton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:27:21.628Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sharon-sutton"
name: "Sharon Sutton"
slug: "sharon-sutton"
description: "Sharon Egretta Sutton, is an American architect, educator, visual artist, and author. Her work is focused on community-based participatory research and design. She is a professor emerita at the University of Washington. In 1984, she became the first African American woman to become a full professor in an accredited architectural degree program while teaching at the University of Michigan. She has also taught at Parsons School of Design, and Columbia University."
tagline: "American architect (born 1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sharon_Egretta_Sutton_at_the_When_Ivory_Towers_were_Black_at_the_book_launch_at_Columbia_GSAPP_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Architects"
  slug: "architects"
profileType:
  name: "Architect"
  slug: "architect"
birthDate: "1941"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.470014666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_E._Sutton"
    title: "Sharon E. Sutton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A5%D9%8A._%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "شارون إي. سوتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%89._%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "شارون اى. سوتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Egretta_Sutton"
    title: "Sharon Egretta Sutton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Egretta_Sutton"
    title: "Sharon Egretta Sutton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Sutton"
    title: "Sharon Sutton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7490219"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump