Palmyra Geraki is a designer, educator, writer, and editor. She is the founding principal of PALMYRA and a licensed architect in the United States (IL, NY, and CO) and Greece.

Before founding her own practice, Palmyra worked on affordable housing and other mission-driven projects as Project Manager/Project Architect at Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects in San Francisco, on a wide range of mid-rise and high-rise residential and commercial projects as an Associate at Pei Cobb Freed & Partners in New York City, and on exhibition design and adaptive reuse projects at Interform in Thessaloniki.

Palmyra is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, where she teaches design studios and seminars. Before joining the faculty there, Palmyra taught at the University of Illinois Chicago and at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She was a member of the organizing committee of the 2021 and 2022 Architecture Beyond Capitalism (A-B-C) Summer School and she has been an invited juror at universities across North America.

Palmyra served as a Skyline Editor for the New York Review of Architecture in 2022 and 2023 and her writing has appeared in several publications. She is a coauthor of the book The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education (Routledge 2024).

In 2022 Palmyra was elected Board Trustee of the AIA Chicago Foundation and in 2024 she joined the Board of Directors of The Architecture Lobby (T-A-L), an international labor advocacy organization for the AEC industry; she has been an active member of T-A-L since 2017.

Palmyra received her B.A. in 'Architecture' and 'Ethics, Politics & Economics' from Yale University and her M.Arch. from the Yale School of Architecture. At Yale, she was the recipient of the George Nelson Traveling Fellowship, the President's Public Service Fellowship, and the Curtis Prize.

Palmyra grew up in Thessaloniki, Greece, and has lived and/or worked in New Haven, New York, Oakland, San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Chicago.