She joined the faculty at Princeton after relocating from Detroit, where she had been teaching at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning since 2014. She is principal of McEwen Studio and co-founder of A(n) Office, an architecture collaborative operating between Detroit and New York City. McEwen’s design work has been awarded grants from the Graham Foundation, Knight Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts. Her writing on architecture and urbanism has been published in Log, E-Flux Architecture, Perspecta, and Domus.