Skye Ruozzi, RA is a licensed architect and builder from Appalachia. She integrates environmental ethics with technical expertise, using architecture as a medium for connection, transformation, and resilience. Her material interest lies in ecological impact and capacity as tools for cultivating shared knowledge and place-based practices. She is the founder of Earth Rise Collective, a women-led art and build collective, creating site-responsive earthworks and sanctuaries from natural, regenerative materials. Through participatory bioconstruction, storytelling, and skill-sharing, ERC transforms spaces of extraction into places of collective power, bridging art, ecology, and frontline activism.
