wrkSHäp | kiloWatt, LLC is a boutique architecture firm founded in 2021 by architect k. kennedy Whiters, AIA in Queens, NY that illuminates possibilities in historic preservation, owner’s representation/construction project management, and racially-equitable communications. The firm’s client list currently includes an African American cultural arts center on the National Register of Historic Places on Chicago’s South Side. 

kennedy has an architect’s license to practice architecture in Washington State and New York State. wrkSHäp | kiloWatt has a business license to operate in New York, its home state, and Illinois and California for remote work from New York.

Through Black in Historic Preservation (@blackinhistpres), Beyond Integrity in (X) (@beyond.integrity), and (un)Redact the Facts (@unredacthefacts), wrkSHäp | kiloWatt provides a job board and actionable items for racial equity.