Dayton Schroeter

Dayton Schroeter is a Vice President and National Design Director at Smithgroup. He is an Architect, social activist, exhibition designer and artist with over 20 years of experience championing ‘Design Justice’ advocacy. As a leader of the firm’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, his charge is to lead design projects that address the systematic injustice that architecture and planning have perpetuated on historically disenfranchised communities of color. Leveraging his tenacious passion for design justice with authenticity and creativity, he is currently leading Antiracism efforts in design projects at all scales; including a new interpretive Master Plan for the Whitney Plantation, The National Slavery Museum at Lumpkins Slave Jail, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Expansion and Renovation project, an interpretive plan for 1315 Duke Street (the historic headquarters of the largest domestic slave trade operation in the United States), the Sweatt V Painter commemorative project at UT Austin, a traveling fine art, Hip Hop exhibition called “The Culture” and a traveling art installation called Society’s Cage that sheds national awareness on the history of anti-Black racialized state violence in the United States.