Veronika Genia Suarez

Adjunct Lecturer - Real Estate Development

Veronika Suárez is a designer and planner whose work is shaped by a clear awareness of how the built environment reflects care—or neglect—for the people who inhabit it. Her practice moves between design, planning, and development, and grows from close collaboration with public agencies, private developers, and community organizations. In South Florida, she leads projects that balance feasibility with social responsibility.

She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute and a Master of Sustainable Real Estate Development from Tulane University, where her studies focused on how physical, ecological, and regulatory constraints can inform more equitable approaches to urban development.

At Tulane, Veronika teaches courses that connect design thinking with real estate decision making. She encourages students to think critically about the relationships
between people, place, and the systems that shape the built environment. Her teaching emphasizes applied learning and frames design not as a product but as a process of listening, negotiating, and translating between disciplines and communities. Her goal as a lecturer is to equip future practitioners to balance
confident creativity with pragmatism and deep sensitivity to context.

Outside of her professional and academic work, Veronika is a community doula, supporting families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care—an extension of her broader commitment to creating environments that support health and equity.