Johanna Hurme is an architect, co-founder and managing partner of Winnipeg-based 5468796 Architecture. Her practice has been awarded numerous national and international awards. She is also a housing and urban design activist and an advocate. She is the current President Elect of RAIC I Architecture Canada and a past Chair of the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce and has taught architecture at Cornell University, IIT in Chicago, and at Universities across Canada. Hurme lectures extensively and is co-author of ‘Innovative Solutions for Creating Sustainable Cities’ (2018), and ‘platform:MIDDLE’, Architecture for Housing the 99%, (2023).