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Design for Freedom Working Group Members

(as of March 2025)

Jane Abernethy | Humanscale, Chief Sustainability Officer

Keith Amann | Related Companies, VP, Sustainability

Iwan Baan | Photographer and Published Author

Lindsay Baker | Living Future, CEO

Barbara BatShalom | BuildingEase, Founder & CEO

Kai Uwe-Bergmann, FAIA | BIG, Partner

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

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

Rebecca Best | Material Bank, VP Sustainability & Market Engagement

Annie Bevan | Mindful Materials, Executive Director

Paul Bradley | Ventia, Sustainable Energy & Supply Chain

Frances Bronet | Pratt Institute, President

Victoria Cabanos | Stuart Lynn, Managing Principal/CEO

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

Paul Clemence | Architectural Photographer and Author

Rick Cook | COOKFOX Architects, Founding Partner

Jill Crawford | Type A Projects, Founding Partner

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

Curtis Clay | US Dept. of State, OBO, Director of Architecture

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

Tanya De Hoog , CEng, FIStructE, MIEAust | Aurecon, Chief Engineering, Eminence and Innovation Officer

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

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

Graham Dodd | ARUP, Director

Jennifer Downey | Turner Construction, Director Environmental Social Governance

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

Rand Ekman | HKS, Principal and Chief Sustainability Officer

Louis Fusco , PLA ASLA | Louis Fusco Landscape Architects, Principal

Julia Gamolina  | Madame Architect, Founder & Ennead, Associate Principal

Jared Gilbert | COOKFOX Architects, Associate Partner

Lisa Goodwin-Robbins, RA, LEED AP | Kalin Associates, Associate Principal

Meredith Gore, PhD. | University of Maryland, Associate Professor

Jay Gorman | Sciame Construction, Assistant Vice President

Brad Grant | Howard University, Professor, Vice Chair, Department of Architecture

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

Conor Grennan | NYU Stern, Dean of MBA Students

Elizabeth Grennan | McKinsey Digital, Global Managing Counsel

Gabe Guilliams, PE | BuroHappold Engineering, Partner, Lighting Specialist

Joanna Hall | US Coalition on Sustainability, SustainChain, Executive Director

Pete Hamill | Turner Construction Company, Senior Vice President and Regional General Manager, New England

Felix Heisel | Cornell Circular Construction Lab, Director

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

Florian Idenburg , RA, AIA-IA | SO – IL, Founding Principal

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

Susan Jones | atelierjones, Founder, Architect

Diana Kellogg | Diana Kellogg Architects, Founder

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

Andrew Klemmer | Paratus Group, President & Founder 

Florencia Kratsman | FX Collaborative, Interiors Practice Lead

Evelyn Lee | Slack Technologies, Head of Workplace Strategy and Innovation and Practice of Architecture, Founder and 2025 President, American Institute of Architects

Vivian Lee | Gensler, Design Director

Jing Liu, AIA | SO – IL, Founding Principal

Shawn MacDonald, Ph.D. | Verité, CEO

Jennifer McCadney | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, Special Counsel

Sammy Medina | New York Review of Architecture, Editor

Vardhan Mehta | Acelab, Co-founder & CEO

Peter Miller, AIA, LEED | Palette Architecture, Founding Partner

Joseph Mizzi | Sciame Construction, President & COO

Amy Musanti | Assa Abloy, Director of Sustainable Building Solutions

Tateo Nakajima, FRSA FIOA | ARUP, Fellow

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

Signe Nielsen | MNLA Landscape Architects, Principal

Eddie Opara, AIGA | Pentagram, Partner

Nat Oppenheimer, PE | Silman, EVP, Senior Principal

Debbie Propst | President, Global Retail, MillerKnoll

Alan Ricks, Int FRIBA | MASS Design Group, Founding Principal and Chief Design Officer

Antonio Rillosi | ExtraVega, CEO & Founder

Yiselle Santos Rivera | HKS, Principal, Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Christopher Sharples, AIA | SHoP Architects, Founding Principal

Hayes Slade, AIA, IIDA | Slade Architecture, Co-Founder & Principal and AIA NY 2019 President

James Slade, FAIA, LEED-AP | 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, Architect and Associate Professor in Architecture

Brian Ulicny, Ph.D. | Raytheon BBN Technologies at 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 

Kim Yao, FAIA | ARO, Principal and AIA NY 2020 President

GRACE FARMS

Sharon Prince | CEO and Founder

Chelsea Thatcher | Chief Strategy Officer and Founding Creative Director

Nora Rizzo | Ethical Materials Director

Brigid Abraham, AIA | Design for Freedom Project Manager

Toshihiro Oki | Architectural Advisor

Adam Thatcher | Co-Founder Grace Farms Foods

Elizabeth Rapuano | Chief Communications Officer

Ashley Sikora | Director of Marketing