design director

IA Interior Architects

northeast regional vice president and historian, NOMA and senior associate

S9 Architecture

Pascale Sablan, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP, With over eleven years of experience, she has been on the team for a variety of mixed-use, commercial, cultural & residential projects in the U.S., Saudi Arabia, India, Azerbaijan, & UAE....

principal

Solomon Coyle, LLC

editor in chief

Contract Magazine

CEO and founder

Ecomedes

color expert

Colorfuel Color Marketing Group

Peggy Van Allen, founder of Colorfuel, is an expert in color marketing, trend forecasting, visual communications and color palette development. She understands that the right color is imperative to product design and marketing....

health practice leader

HDR, Inc.

Rachel L. H Bartling, AIA, LEED AP is the Health Practice Leader at HDR Minneapolis and has been involved with healthcare design and construction for 20 years. Rachel brings unique experience in that she has worked both as a medical planner and also worked for a construction company focused on healthcare construction and development.  LEAN, sustainability, research, construction and design all play a part in her process....

senior lighting designer

Stantec

Rachel Fitzgerald is a Senior Lighting Designer and Associate with global design firm Stantec. A graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder’s lighting program, she has more than 15 years of experience providing exterior and interior lighting designs for hospitality, mixed-use, retail, corporate interiors, civic, multi-family and recreation projects.  Rachel is an industry leader who drives health and wellbeing through lighting and daylighting, providing significant expertise to her building and master plan work globally....

senior associate

MSR Design

A national leader in workplace design, Rachelle has devoted her 27-year career to combining design excellence with workplace innovation. She has distinguished herself in the interior design profession as a passionate and dedicated advocate for sustainable design and human health and well-being....

principal, head of design

RADA Architects

Rada Doytcheva, PhD, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C is a Principal with RADA Architects in Chicago. She is leading the firm on a mission for creating “Better Lives, by Design” - using powerful tools of design for positive changes in urban communities.   Rada comes to her practice with forward-looking ideas of smart planning and humanizing designs while doing what is right, socially responsible and sustainable....