One of our most important collaborations has been with the Cheyenne River Housing Authority in Eagle Butte, SD. The whole staff there is really great, but their leadership team is inspirational beyond our ability to relate. Sharon Vogel is the Executive Director and her knowledge and understanding of housing in Cheyenne River and the State of South Dakota is unparalleled.

Well, we were googling along and found this incredible interview with her that you should stop everything and immediately read.

Over the years the many and varied projects we’ve worked on with this group have been awesome, frustrating, agonizing, hopeful, and difficult. There are real issues, real opportunities, and real challenges here. And really - no better leader to navigate these demands than Sharon. It is really interesting to hear/read her talk about these issues. Her context for their work stretches from Washington D.C. to Thunder Butte and her passion for helping her people is all over this page. Wow.

The one image in the article is from the Badger Subdivision Master Plan that we co-created with CRHA and our design team at the time. These documents are evolutionary and it is interesting to see how things move and change with new opportunities.

https://archleague.org/article/cheyenne-river-reservation-housing-authority/