Greta J. Harris (’83) has received Virginia Tech’s Alumni Distinguished Service Award which honors alumni in recognition of their outstanding service to the university, their communities, and their professions. The award was presented during the May commencement activities.
Harris is a member of the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors and president and CEO of the Better Housing Coalition, the Richmond area’s largest nonprofit community development corporation. During her career, she has been involved in more than $750 million of investments in affordable housing that has provided good places to call home for more than 20,000 modest income individuals.
She earned a bachelor's degree in architecture from Virginia Tech and a master's degree in architecture and urban design from Columbia University.
In addition to serving her alma mater on the Board of Visitors, Harris has been a member of the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design Dean’s Advisory Board and past member of the Virginia Tech Foundation Board. In 2016, she was named the Virginia Tech Black Alumni Philanthropist of the Year and was recognized as a 2014 Outstanding Virginian by Equality Virginia.
Among her many accolades, Harris was a 2023 Virginia Business Magazine Women in Leadership Award winner. She received the National NeighborWorks Association’s 2021 Practitioner of the Year Award, the Ruth Coles Harris Leadership Institute 2021 Leadership Award, was a Bold Women of 2020 honoree by Richmond Magazine, a 2019 YWCA Outstanding Women Award winner, a 2019 Style Weekly Executive Women in Business honoree, and a 2018 Richmond Times Dispatch Person of the Year honoree.
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