Carie Penabad is a distinguished alumna of both the University of Miami and Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She is currently a Full Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture and was formerly both Associate Dean of Research and Director of the Undergraduate program (2016 - Summer 2021). She has taught in a variety of institutions; and in 2013 she was appointed the Louis I Kahn Visiting Assistant Professor at Yale University. Her publications include: Marion Manley: Miami’s First Women Architect (University of Georgia Press, 2010); Call to Order: Sustaining Simplicity in Architecture (ORO Publishers, 2018) and the forthcoming: Made in Miami/Hecho en Miami (ACTAR Publishers, 2023 with Adib Cúre).

Parallel to her academic work, Penabad is a partner in the Miami-based firm of CÚRE & PENABAD. The work of the firm has received numerous design awards including more than two dozen American Institute of Architects awards; local and national preservation awards; and most recently received the prestigious Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York, a competition that recognizes individuals with a distinct design voice and a significant body of realized work.

Since January 2023, Penabad has been the host of ON CITIES, an international radio show/podcast dedicated to the design of our cities and the ways in which the built environment shapes the quality of our lives.