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Professor | George Washington University; Former Chair | Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Sara C. Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, George Washington University law professor, and policymaker whose interdisciplinary work focuses on how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected places. She wrote Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, and she founded and leads Land Use Atlas, Inc., which through the National Zoning Atlas and the National Preservation is illuminating critical information about the land use regulations that shape our lives.
Bronin has authored or co-authored two treatises, four books, and dozens of articles. She has been a reformer and change-maker in public roles at the local, state, and federal levels, including serving as the Senate-confirmed Chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation in the Biden administration. She holds a J.D. from Yale (Truman Scholarship), M.Sc. from Oxford (Rhodes Scholarship), and B.Architecture and B.A. in Plan II from the University of Texas. A seventh-generation Texan, Sara is a native Houstonian.
