Mpho Matsipa is an associate assistant professor of architecture at Columbia GSAPP and curator at Studio-X Johannesburg. She is also a researcher at the Wits City Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. After graduating with honors in architecture from the University of Cape Town, Mpho was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and later a Carnegie Grant as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the curator of Studio-X Johannesburg, an experimental public platform for architecture and the city. Her research interests include globalization and urbanism in African cities, spatial justice, and culture, race, and representation.