Commissioner Everardo Jefferson

Everardo Jefferson is principal and founder of the award-winning architecture firm Caples Jefferson Architects PC. He has over 40 years of design, management, and construction experience. His work focuses on design issues that engage many levels of culture and has been featured in journals and garnered awards and exhibitions nationally and internationally. His firm focuses on design for the public, with an emphasis on cultural, educational, and diplomatic projects. In 2024, Commissioner Jefferson was inducted as an Academician of the National Academy of Design. His firm was awarded the 2017 AIA NY President’s Award, multiple AIA design awards, a 2006 NYC DDC Design and Construction Excellence Award and a 2006 Art Commission award, and many additional local and national awards.  Projects by his firm include the Queens Theater in the Park expansion and reconstruction, the Louis Armstrong House Museum’s new Education Center in Corona, and Brooklyn’s Weeksville Heritage Center in Crown Heights. 
  
Commissioner Jefferson has served multiple times as a visiting professor, most recently as the Davenport Professor at Yale School of Architecture. He has lectured on design at Yale, Harvard, MIT, Oxford Brookes, the Savannah College of Art and Design, the RIBA, Cambridge University, and many additional venues. He currently serves on the board of the Neighborhood Charter Schools and has served on the boards of the Family Justice Center and AIA New York.