Teaching Architecture is a series of interviews with faculty at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Graduate student Sneha Sumanth asks professors why they teach, what drives them, what brought them here, and their opinions on academia in architecture today. The conversations are motivating, inspirational, and reveal great stories about people who shape the way we learn today. This article is a conversation with Mona El Khafif, an Associate Professor at UWSA.