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Design for Freedom Working Group Members

(as of February 2026)

Jane Abernethy | Humanscale, Chief Sustainability Officer

Keith Amann | Related Companies, VP, Sustainability

Illya Azaroff FAIA | +Lab, Principal and AIA President

Iwan Baan | Photographer and Published Author

Lindsay Baker | Living Future, CEO

Barbara BatShalom | BuildingEase, Founder & CEO

Kyle Bergman | Architecture and Design Film Festival, Founder

Kai Uwe-Bergmann, FAIA | BIG, Partner

Deborah Berke, FAIA | Yale School of Architecture, Dean, and TenBerke, Founder

Phillip Bernstein, FAIA | Yale School of Architecture, Associate Dean and Professor Adjunct

Rebecca Best | Material Bank, EVP Sustainability & Market Engagement

Gordon Boggis | Carnegie, CEO

Frances Bronet | Pratt Institute, President

Victoria Cabanos | Stuart Lynn, Managing Principal/CEO

Myrrh Caplan, LEED Fellow | Skanska, National Senior Vice President Sustainability

Amb. (ret.) Luis C.deBaca | Former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons

Paul Clemence | Architectural Photographer and Author

Tim Conway | Shaw Industries, Vice President Sustainability

Rick Cook, FAIA | COOKFOX Architects, Founding Partner

Jill Crawford | Type A Projects, Founding Partner

Michael Crosbie, Ph.d, FAIA | University of Hartford, Professor 

Curtis Clay, FAIA

Diana Darling | The Architect’s Newspaper, CEO, Co-Founder, and Publisher

Dirk Denison, FAIA | Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), College of Architecture, MCHAP Director and Professor

Raj Deshpande | Saint Gobain NA, Senior Director ESG Sustainability & Compliance

Angel Dizon | Northwestern University, Senior Associate Vice President of Facilities

Graham Dodd | ARUP Fellow, Director Materials and Fabrication

Jennifer Downey | Turner Construction, Director Environmental Social Governance

Anna Dyson | Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (CEA), Founding Director

Louis Fusco , FASLA | Louis Fusco Landscape Architects, Principal

Julia Gamolina  | Madame Architect, Founder & Ennead, Director of Business Development

Jared Gilbert | COOKFOX Architects, Associate Partner

Lisa Goodwin-Robbins | Kalin Associates, Associate Principal

Meredith Gore, PhD. | University of Maryland, Professor

Jay Gorman | Sciame Construction, Vice President

Brad Grant | Howard University, Professor, Department of Architecture

Michael Green, AIBC, FRAIC | MGA, President and CEO

Conor Grennan | NYU Stern, Dean of MBA Students

Elizabeth Grennan | Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett, Chief Client Officer

Anthony Guerrero | mindful MATERIALS, Executive Director

Gabe Guilliams, PE | BuroHappold Engineering, Partner

Joanna Hall | Global Coalition on Sustainability, SustainChain, President

Pete Hamill | Turner Construction Company, Senior Vice President, Strategic Development and New England Principal

Felix Heisel | Cornell Circular Construction Lab, Director

Eric Höweler, FAIA | Höweler + Yoon, Co-founder & Principal

Florian Idenburg | SO – IL, Founding Principal

Nina Cooke John | Studio Cooke John Architecture + Design, Founder and Principal

Susan Jones, FAIA | atelierjones, Founder, Architect

Diana Kellogg | Diana Kellogg Architects, Founder

Leslie P. King, Esq. | Cozen O’Connor, Member

Andrew Klemmer | Paratus Group, President & Founder 

Arthi Krishnamoorthy | TenBerke, Senior Principal

Evelyn Lee, FAIA | Practice of Architecture, Founder and 2025 President, American Institute of Architects

Vivian Lee | Gensler, Design Director

Jing Liu | SO – IL, Founding Principal

Shawn MacDonald, Ph.D. | Verité, CEO

Sammy Medina | New York Review of Architecture, Editor

Sydney Mainster | The Durst Organization, VP of Sustainability & Design Management

Vardhan Mehta | Acelab, Co-founder & CEO

Peter Miller | Palette Architecture, Founding Partner

Joseph Mizzi | Sciame Construction, President

Amy Musanti | Assa Abloy, Director of Sustainable Building Solutions

Tateo Nakajima, FRSA FIOA | ARUP, Fellow

Patricia Saldaña Natke, FAIA | UrbanWorks, Founding Partner and President

Signe Nielsen, FASLA | MNLA Landscape Architects, Principal

Eddie Opara, AIGA | Pentagram, Partner

Nat Oppenheimer | TYLIN, Senior Vice President

Daniel Piselli | FX Collaborative, Principal, Director of Sustainability

Debbie Propst | MillerKnoll, President Global Retail

Suchi Reddy, FAIA | REDDYMADE, Founding Principal

Quilian Riano | Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Dean

Alan Ricks, Int FRIBA | MASS Design Group, Founding Principal and Co-Executive Director

Antonio Rillosi | ExtraVega, CEO & Founder

Richard Roark, FASLA | Olin, Chief Purpose Officer & Partner

Yiselle Santos Rivera | YSR, LLC, Founder & CEO, AIA President 2027

Jonsara Ruth | Healthy Materials Lab at Parsons School of Design, Design Director & Co-Founder

Christopher Sharples | SHoP Architects, Founding Principal

Nasreen Sheikh | Founder, Empowerment Collective

Hayes Slade | Slade Architecture, Co-Founder & Principal

James Slade, FAIA | Slade Architecture, Founder Partner

Raphael Sperry | ARUP, Associate Principal and Global Social Equity Leader

Franca Trubiano, Ph.D. | University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design, Associate Professor in Architecture and Chair, Graduate Group of Architecture

Brian Ulicny, Ph.D. | Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Associate Director, Research; Analytics and Machine Intelligence Group

Claire Weisz, FAIA | WXY architecture + urban design, Principal-in-Charge

David Wildman | Bloomberg LP, Global Head Facilities, Sustainability Ops and MEP Infrastructure

Yumiko Yamada | SANAA, Partner and AIA Japan, President 2024

Kim Yao, FAIA | ARO, Principal

GRACE FARMS

Sharon Prince | CEO and Founder

Chelsea Thatcher | Chief Strategy Officer and Founding Creative Director

Nora Rizzo | Ethical Materials Director

Brigid Abraham | Design for Freedom Project Manager

Emma Gallo | Managing Director, International Strategic Initiatives

Toshihiro Oki | Architectural Advisor

Adam Thatcher | Co-Founder and CEO Grace Farms Foods

Elizabeth Rapuano | Chief Communications Officer

Ashley Sikora | Managing Director, Marketing, Retail and Brand