Sherry Xuan Yang

Associate Principal

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill


Sherry Xuan Yang has over 10 years of design and technical experience. She is an NCARB and LEED-certified licensed architect with an affinity for contextual design solutions and environmentally and socially conscious projects. She specializes in civic and education buildings. Outside of her project architect role, Sherry leads BIM technology and firmwide carbon accounting at SOM and is a the leader of SOM's ACE Mentorship Program where she supports high school students in their exposure to and pursuit of careers in architecture, construction, and engineering fields. In 2022, Sherry was selected by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation's Emerging Leader program. Operating at both ends of the spectrum, she has spoken at construction industry roundtables and critiqued on academic juries at Pratt, Cornell and NJIT.