The College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) Alumni Network offers meaningful ways to stay engaged with your college, reconnect with professors and classmates, and remain part of the broader UC Alumni Association community. With more than 22,500 DAAP alumni shaping industries locally and around the world, our network is filled with inventive thinkers and bold creators. We invite you to continue sharing your story, participating in alumni experiences, and strengthening the creative community that makes DAAP extraordinary.
The College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning Alumni Council is an advisory volunteer group that supports the UC Alumni Association and the College. Council members serve as thought partners, engagement ambassadors, and advocates for DAAP alumni initiatives. Members contribute through a variety of opportunities—including, but not limited to, DAAPX and DAAPmade—and help shape, promote, and support programs and activities that strengthen lifelong connections between alumni and the college.
2025-26 DAAP Alumni Council Members
Brooke L. Rapp, BUP ’17
April 15, 2026
University of Cincinnati student Eddie Gerstner will graduate this semester and enter medical school later this year. Born with a severe milk allergy, he has overcome numerous life-threatening reactions since.
April 14, 2026
The UC Alumni Association (UCAA) will host its annual Alumni Celebration during Alumni Week, April 13-18, with a community art project commemorating this year’s slate of alumni honorees receiving the organization’s top awards. Taking place April 16 at the First Financial Center (Cincinnati Convention Center), the Alumni Celebration will recognize the 18 honorees for their individual and collective innovation and impact, and the resulting impact on their university, communities, and fields of endeavor.
April 14, 2026
The region’s largest public transportation agency is launching bus stop glowups across the county with the help of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP).
DAAP is committed to shaping a more thoughtful, inspired, and innovative visual and design environment. Through exceptional academic programs, research, creative work, and community partnerships, our faculty, students, and staff work together to advance this mission. Alumni support helps empower future designers, artists, architects, and planners as they create meaningful work and drive the creative fields forward.
This network is open to all University of Cincinnati alumni, regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, or any other class or status protected by applicable law.
Program Director, Alumni Engagement, College-Conservatory of Music & College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
