Sarah Ghorbanian

Sarah Ghorbanian, LEED AP, leans on her unique background in architecture, graphic design, economics, and sociology in the planning and management of cultural capital projects. Ghorbanian, a principal at SmithGroup, is often called upon to oversee the firm’s largest and most complex museum projects, particularly those that incorporate existing facilities or historic structures. Her savvy for being attuned to both micro and macro details of a project instills museum leaders with confidence and engenders collegiality among large multi-faceted design and construction teams. She is passionate about proactive coordination between architecture and exhibition design and has lent her skillset to significant projects for the Gilcrease Museum, National Gallery of Art, Cincinnati Museum Center, Museum of the Bible, North Carolina Museum of History, and a wide variety of notable projects for the Smithsonian Institution. Ghorbanian is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and The George Washington University and a long-time member of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums.