Virginia Senior received her degree in architecture from Arizona State University in 1985. Since then, she has worked in architectural firms in Los Angeles and Boston. In 1992 she relocated to Phoenix to form the award-wining Senior/Oesterle Architecture + Art with partners Jeff Oesterle and Rebecca Senior. Senior has a solid architectural foundation in the public sector, especially in the areas of transportation and housing and has completed projects include Dudley Station, Transitway South Station and Jamaica Plain Housing. Senior is the daughter of a silversmith and excels within many artistic disciplines including architecture, furniture design, sculpture, jewelry and graphic design.