Leila Hamroun

Leila Hamroun-Yazid, AIA, NCARB, GPCP, is a senior preservation architect with 25 years of national and international experience at Tetra Tech, where she leads the Historic Preservation Studio of the Critical Building Infrastructure Group. She holds degrees from the University of Delaware, the Ecole de Chaillot, Paris, France, and the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Algiers, Algeria. Her multilingual and multicultural background informs a nuanced perspective on the complex historical, political, social, and economical contexts forming our built environment. This, and her extensive expertise in architecture, planning, cultural analysis, and building diagnostics, have shaped a distinguished stewardship portfolio of historic resources that continue to actively support their communities while sharing their legacy of compelling and challenging stories.  

Leila is consistently enriching her practice with publications, presentations, teaching opportunities, educational programming, and mentoring. Since 2018, as a Board member of the Algerian American Foundation for Culture, Education, Science and Technology, she has been involved in organizing the AAF Summer University – Civil Engineering and Architecture Track – a one-week in-person seminar (virtual during Covid) – bringing together international experts, and local doctoral students and professionals, to focus on disaster risk reduction through best practices in engineering design, condition assessment and seismic retrofitting.

Leila is also actively involved in many state and national initiatives as a cancer patient advocate to increase racial and ethnic diversity in, and improve access to,  oncology clinical trials.  Her efforts are not focused on a specific disease, rather on how to expand the reach of clinical trials through an overall strategy of information and inclusion, which can be tailored to support more disease-specific initiatives. She has been working with the AACR Scientist-Survivor program to address cancer health disparities, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the Association of Community Cancer Centers and recently joining the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Prevention Steering Committee. Her efforts were recently recognized with the Society of Foreign Consuls of New York Recognition Award for Outstanding Achievements and Contributions to Community Empowerment.