USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE COMMENCEMENT MAY 12, 2023
USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME REMARKS
UNDER GRADUATE STUDENT ADDRESS
GRADUATE STUDENT ADDRESS
YO-ICHIRO HAKOMORI, PH.D., AIA, Marshal
ALVIN HUANG, AIA, Marshal
KAREN M. KENSEK, Marshal
JOSHUA THOMAS RYAN, Flag Bearer
DIANA ALEJANDRA PEREZ, Banner Bearer
ALVIN HUANG, AIA, Marshal
WILLOW BAY
Interim Dean
ESMERALDA MIA ACEITUNO ANNABELLE BRITNEY ASALI
MANUEL EDUARDO BRADLEY ZAVALETA
HANNAH MICHAEL FLYNN
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION OF HONOR GRADUATES
TRUDI SANDMEIER, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
KULAPAT YANTRASAST, PH.D.
Founding Partner and Creative Director of WHY
PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES
Bachelor of Architecture
Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies
DORIS SUNG, Director
Master of Advanced Architectural Research Studies
Master of Architecture
ALVIN HUANG, AIA, Director
Master of Building Science
KYLE KONIS, PH.D., AIA, Director
Master of Heritage Conservation
TRUDI SANDMEIER, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Master of Landscape Architecture
ALISON HIRSCH, PH.D., FAAR, Director
CLOSING REMARKS
WILLOW BAY, Interim Dean
RECEPTION AND EXHIBITS
Please join us at the School of Architecture for a light reception and EXPO 2023, an exhibition of graduating student work.
PROCESSIONAL LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
KULAPAT YANTRASAST
KULAPAT YANTRASAST, PHD is a thought-leader and practitioner in the fields of architecture, art, and sustainable design. Originally from Thailand and now based in Los Angeles and New York, he is the founding partner and creative director of WHY, a multidisciplinary design practice organized into five interdependent workshops: Buildings, Landscape, Museums, Objects, and Ideas. Each project at WHY follows Yantrasast’s guiding ethic of human-centered design and creative collaboration.
Yantrasast received his MA and PhD degrees in architecture from the University of Tokyo, and subsequently worked as a close associate of Tadao Ando. In 2007, Yantrasast led the design for the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the first art museum building in the world to receive LEED Gold certification for environmentally sustainable design.
Renowned for his work in cultural institutions globally, Yantrasast’s portfolio of projects include the Ross Pavilion and West Princess Street Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland, a new contemporary art museum in Makati, Philippines, the expansion of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles.
An AD100 Firm since 2019, WHY has engaged in major museum renovation projects including the Rockefeller Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Northwest Coast Hall at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. WHY’s interdisciplinary workshop is also engaged in significant community projects including the EPA CENTER, a youth arts and music center in East Palo Alto, California.
As a leading architect for the art world, Yantrasast makes a number of public speaking appearances discussing creativity, food, architecture, and human flourishing. He has served as trustee of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation and the Noguchi Museum in New York.
Since 2005, he has been on the Artists’ Committee of the Americans for the Arts, the nation’s oldest organization for support of the arts in society. In 2009, Yantrasast was the first architect to receive the prestigious Silpathorn Award for Design from Thailand’s Ministry of Culture for outstanding achievement and notable contributions to Thai contemporary arts and culture.
USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
FOUNDER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR, WHY
DEGREE CANDIDATES
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
Esmeralda Mia Aceituno
Minor: Cinematic Arts
Minor: Communication Design
Ayse Yasmine Artun
Minor: Photography
Annabelle Britney Asali
Arsineh Baghoomian
Nicole B Betances
Ana Maria Bohorquez
Minor: Real Estate Finance
Vivan Bose
Minor: Screenwriting
Jose Alejandro Botello-Herrera
Boan Cai
Caleigh Scott Canales
Minor: Music Industry
Zheng Cao
Ryan Chang
Tzu-Tung Chang
Minor: Marketing
Jessica Mia Chen
Weilan Chen
Minor: 3D Computer Graphics and Modeling
Woody Shu Chiang
Danilo Emmanuel Concha Diaz
Evelyn Marie Coulson
Danann Paris De Alba
Feitong Du
Karen Eloyan
Nicholas Gaw
Minor: Real Estate Finance
Maria Del Mar Rocio Gomez
Gabriela Gonzalez
Micaela Rochelle Gray
Natalie Jean Haub
Naomi Hicks
Emily Huang
Junie Huang
Minor: Environmental Studies
Sonia Rama Iyer
Minor: Urban Sustainable Planning
Zhijie Jin
Byung Kyu Kang
Jesse Devin Keefe
Ian Zi Yan Leung
Minor: Real Estate Finance
Geoffrey Li
Minor: Real Estate Finance
Lexie Lipovetsky
Fernando Elias Mercado
Maribel Morales
Menghao Ni
Lala Nikola
John Daniel Arceo Ocampo
Minor: Narrative Structure
Zeynep Ok
Ashley Odera Onyeador
Jeanne-Marie Andree Pelletier
Diana Alejandra Perez
Sophia Katharine Phillips
Minor: Business Finance
Elena Prado
Minor: Archaeology
Skyler Bryce Rosin
Sophia Eleanor Sabini-Leite
Cameron George Seltzer
Samantha Shanne
Ahyun Claire Son
Gene Choong Tan
Yagmur Uysal
Drake Quinn Velasco
Katherine Villa-Fuerte
Ryan Matthew Von Keyserling
Thomas Wang
Yihan Wang
Jun Jie Yee
Daniel Wonsung Yi
Daniel Yil Yoo
Yomna Zantout
Amari Zhang
Minor: Product Design
Yuanyang Zhou
Jimmy Zhu
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES
Giovana Bitelli Brito
Minor: Communication Design
Gabriella Castro
Jun Hyuk Choi
Shoshana Devon
Ruiyi Guo
Evelyn Hariono
Brandon Ong Hing
Jeewon Kim
Minor: Economics
Erin Light
Abigail Sheri Omelczuk
Minor: Multimedia for Designers and Entrepreneurs
Mia Raquel Parent
Janice E. Park
Minor: Themed Entertainment
Jae Jun Park
Ava Anastasia Van Vechten
Minor: Communication Design
MASTER OF ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES
Lin Zhu
MASTER OF ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH
STUDIES: Performative Design + Technology
Ronakkumar Kishorbhai
Prajapati
Jingqi Yu
MASTER OF ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH STUDIES: City Design + Housing
Xinran Min
Joshua Thomas Ryan
Yutong Sun
Xinghan Wang
Yuanqi Wang
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
Shynggys Abdrakhman
Chirag Ahluwalia
Graduate Certificate in Landscape Architecture
Rishabh Shankar Ahuja
Sarah Alajajian
Farah Alqallaf
Graduate Certificate in Building Facade Art Science and Technology
Maria Fernanda Amezquita
Palacios
Ishita Bansal
Graduate Certificate in Building Facade Art Science and Technology
Kimia Bonyadi
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Zachary Borine
Manuel Eduardo Bradley
Zavaleta
Graduate Certificate in Building Science
Seth Michael Calmes
Graduate Certificate in Landscape Architecture
Madison Sarah Canby
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Chun Yu Michael Chan
Yiting Chen
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Yuexi Chen
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Brandon Harvey Chin
Poorva Choudhary
Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development
Edgar Jesus Claure Meruvia
Madeleine Crouch
Isabelle Lillian Dabrowski
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Debdeep Dam
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Mira Christina Davis
Bradley Douglas Friedman
Yuan Gao
Greer Geissman
Graduate Certificate in Landscape Architecture
Jessica Leigh Golden
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Sophia Ius
Brandon Lee Jacobson
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Ruixin Jiang
Zhuoyan Jiang
Fatima-Zohra Kabbaj
Nicholas Kerr
Graduate Certificate in Heritage Conservation
Young Jun Kim
Antonio Lombardi
Jessie Lu
Vicenta Martinez Govea
Gerardo Mendoza
Kahli Merriman
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Marc Metry
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Leka Sorbari Mpigi
Hannah Victoria Mullins
Angela Anne Nessel
Graduate Certificate in Real Estate Development
Fangzhou Ni
Hoondong No
Zachary R. Oser
Saloni Hemkalyan Pandit
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Kyung Park
Naira Petrosian
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Francesca Picard
Shaun Keith Rankin
Tishya Ravichander Rao
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Policy and Planning
Daniel Refoua
Kelli Reitzfeld
Heryann Reyes Ayala
Jalak Pinakin Rughani
Eleanor Cooper Selzer
Graduate Certificate in Sustainability and Business
Juansebastian Serrano-Negrin
Graduate Certificate in Landscape Architecture
Jiayi Shen
Graduate Certificate in Heritage Conservation
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Ruopu Shi
Yi Shi
Brandon Ray Smith
Shuxing Song
Graduate Certificate in Building Science
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Vasilia Andrianna Tsoukalis
Graduate Certificate in Heritage Conservation
Nirvika Tugnait
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Liling Wang
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Louise Wang
Runyu Wang
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Yufei Wang
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Brianna Ward
Sheng Xu
Liu Yuan
Jia Zhang
Mengrui Zhang
Siqi Zhang
Zhanzhuorui Zhang
Fangshuo Zhao
Zhihao Zhao
Wenjuan Zhong
Xiaofei Zhou
Tianfeng Zhu
MASTER OF BUILDING
Shreya Vishwas Satodia
Najiyya Nadir Siddiqui
Graduate Certificate in Building Facade Art Science and Technology
Xiangyu Sun
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Xiaoyu Yin
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
MASTER OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION
Jesus Barba Bonilla
Xiaoling Fang
Ye Hong
Hoondong No
Willa A. Seidenberg
Wendy Karina Serrano
Nirali Sandeep Sheth
Brannon Marie Smithwick
Emi Takahara
Emily Catherine Varley
Daniela Velazco
Kira Williams
MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Lucia Bayley
Tarana Chordia
Hannah Michael Flynn
Shenghan Gao
Lufan Hu
Yixuan Li
Jiawei Luo
Graduate Certificate in Architecture
Luis Julian Mota
Diana Leigh Nightingale
Graduate Certificate in Heritage Conservation
Eliana Marie Ramirez
Daniela Velazco
Yining Wang
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN BUILDING SCIENCE
Bicheng Si
SCIENCE
Aditya Anoop Bahl
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Haoyue Dai
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Yuqing He
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
Ye Hong
Archana Janardanan
Danqi Meng
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Design
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN HERITAGE CONSERVATION
Arabella Delgado
Henry Martin Doyle
IN MEMORIAM
Devanshi Patel
USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
ACADEMIC HONORS
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
Shoshana Devon
Diana Alejandra Perez
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
Esmeralda Mia Aceituno *##^
Annabelle Britney Asali *##
Jose Alejandro
Botello-Herrera ##^
Caleigh Scott Canales #^
Danann Paris De Alba
Karen Eloyan
Maria Del Mar Gomez *##
Natalie Jean Haub
Brandon Ong Hing *
Zhijie Jin ##
Jesse Devin Keefe
Ian Zi Yan Leung *##
Erin Light
Abigail Sheri Omelczuk
Sophia Katharine Phillips #
Skyler Bryce Rosin
Cameron George Seltzer #
Samantha Shanne **#
Ava Anastasia Van Vechten
Thomas Wang ##
CUM LAUDE
Arsineh Baghoomian
Giovana Bitelli Brito
Ryan Chang
Tzu-Tung Chang #
Weilan Chen
Evelyn Hariono
Junie Huang
Sonia Rama Iyer
Byung Kyu Kang
Jeewon Kim ^
Geoffrey Li
Elena Prado
Sophia Eleanor Sabini-Leite *#
Katherine Villa-Fuerte
Ryan Matthew Von Keyserling ##
Yihan Wang
* Discovery Scholar
**Discovery Scholar Prize
Recipient
#Global Scholar
##Global Scholar Prize
Recipient
^Renaissance Scholar
^^Renaissance Scholar Prize
Recipient
TAU SIGMA DELTA
HONOR SOCIETY IN ARCHITECTURE AND THE ALLIED ARTS BACHELOR’S CANDIDATES
Esmeralda Mia Aceituno *
Annabelle Britney Asali
Jose Alejandro Botello-Herrera
Caleigh Scott Canales
Danann Paris De Alba
Shoshana Devon
Maria Del Mar Rocio Gomez
Natalie Jean Haub
Brandon Ong Hing
Zhijie Jin
Ian Zi Yan Leung
Erin Light
Diana Alejandra Perez
Sophia Katharine Phillips
Skyler Bryce Rosin
Cameron George Seltzer
Thomas Wang
MASTER’S CANDIDATES
Maria Fernanda
Amezquita Palacios
Lucia Bayley
Manuel Bradley Zavaleta *
Madison Sarah Canby
Yiting Chen
Madeleine Crouch
Isabelle L. Dabrowski
Haoyue Dai
Debdeep Dam
Hannah Michael Flynn
Yuan Gao
Yuqing He
Ruixin Jiang
Kahli Merriman
Fangzhou Ni
Zachary R. Oser
Francesca Picard
Kelli Rose Reitzfeld
Joshua Thomas Ryan
Willa A. Seidenberg
Brandon Ray Caribo Smith
Brannon Marie Smithwick
Emi Takahara
Mengrui Zhang
Siqi Zhang
Lin Zhu
*Tau Sigma Delta Prize Recipient
UNDERGRADUATE HONOR RECOGNITIONS
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS MEDAL FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Inrecognitionofscholastic achievement,character,and promiseofprofessionalability.
Diana Alejandra Perez
BEST RESEARCH PAPER
AWARD
Karen Eloyan
FACULTY FINAL DEGREE PROJECT AWARD
Thomas Wang
ROBERT ALLEN ROGAFF
AWARD ARCHITECTURAL DELINEATION AWARD
Drake Quinn Velasco
MATERIAL AND FABRICATION
AWARD
Fernando Elias Mercado
JOHN H. HOLLINGSWORTH HAND-DRAWING AWARD
Zheng Cao
RAYMOND S. KENNEDY CREATIVE INNOVATION
AWARD
Zeynep Ok
THOMAS BYERTS SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY DESIGN AWARD
Natalie Jean Haub
Ian Zi Yan Leung
FACULTY STUDIO CULTURE
AWARD
Jesse Devin Keefe
Sophia Eleanor Sabini-Leite
OVERALL DESIGN STUDIO
AWARD
Diana Alejandra Perez
OUTSTANDING BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES RESEARCH PROJECT AWARD
Shoshana Devon
Abigail Sheri Omelczuk
AVI EFRAIM GESUNDHEIT TRAVELING FELLOW
Gabriela Gonzalez
CHASE L. LEAVITT TRAVELING FELLOW
Dannan Paris De Alba
CHIU MAN AND MARIA WARNER WONG GLOBAL TRAVELING FELLOWS IN SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
Annabelle Britney Asali
Caleigh Scott Canales
GRADUATE HONOR RECOGNITIONS
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS MEDAL FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Inrecognitionofscholastic achievement,character,and promiseofprofessionalability.
Kelli Rose Reitzfeld
ALPHA RHO CHI SCHOOL MEDAL Inrecognitionofthestudent whohasshownabilityfor leadership,performedwilling serviceforhisorherschool, andgavepromiseofreal professionalmeritthroughhis orherattitudeand personality.
Manuel Bradley Zavaleta
MASTER OF ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH STUDIES DIRECTOR’S AWARD
Joshua Thomas Ryan
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
INNOVATION IN DIRECTED DESIGN RESEARCH AWARD
Debdeep Dam
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
EXCELLENCE IN DIRECTED DESIGN RESEARCH AWARD
Fangshuo Zhao
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DISCIPLINARY ADVANCEMENT IN DIRECTED DESIGN RESEARCH AWARD
Francesca Picard
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL DIMENSIONS IN DIRECTED DESIGN RESEARCH AWARD
Eleanor Cooper Selzer
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN COMMUNICATION IN DIRECTED DESIGN RESEARCH AWARD
Brandon Smith
MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE DISTINCTION IN DIRECTED DESIGN RESEARCH
Yiting Chen
Brandon Harvey Chin
Anthony Lombardi
Leka Sorbari Mpigi
Shaun Keith Rankin
Yufei Wang
Liu Yuan
THE GESUNDHEIT FAMILY/ USC ARCHITECTURAL GUILD GRADUATE TRAVELING FELLOW
Fangzhou Ni
WILLIAM & NEOMA TIMME TRAVELING FELLOW
Kahli Merriman
MASTER OF BUILDING SCIENCE OUTSTANDING THESIS AWARD
Ye Hong
MASTER OF BUILDING SCIENCE OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AWARD
Xiangyu Sun
ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH CENTERS CONSORTIUM (ARCC) KING MEDAL Haoyue Dai
MASTER OF HERITAGE CONSERVATION OUTSTANDING THESIS AWARD
Emily Catherine Varley
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS (ASLA) MERIT AWARD
Hannah Michael Flynn
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS (ASLA) HONOR AWARD
Leslie Nicole Dinkin
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION OLMSTED SCHOLAR AWARD
Leslie Nicole Dinkin
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE +URBANISM SERVICE + LEADERSHIP AWARD
Lucia Bayley
LANDSCAPE JUSTICE INITIATIVE AWARD
Eliana Marie Ramirez
FACULTY
Professors
Milton S.F. Curry
Diane Ghirardo, PhD, FAAR
John V. Mutlow, FAIA, RIBA
Douglas Noble, PhD, FAIA
Victor Regnier, FAIA
Marc Schiler, FASES, LC
John Wilson, PhD
Visiting Professor
Trinidad Rico, PhD
Associate Professors
Joon-Ho Choi, PhD
Vittoria Di Palma, PhD
Alison Hirsch, PhD, FAAR
Alvin Huang, AIA
Kyle Konis, PhD, AIA
Charles A. Lagreco, AIA
Amy Murphy, PhD
Alexander Robinson, FAAR
Doris Sung
Assistant Professors
Sascha Delz, PhD
Aroussiak Gabrielian, PhD, FAAR
Faiza Moatasim, PhD
Ginger Nolan, PhD
Bhavna Sharma, PhD
Professors of Practice
Yo-ichiro Hakomori, PhD, AIA
Wes Jones, FAAR
Karen Kensek
Esther Margulies
Gary Paige
Hadrian Predock
Trudi Sandmeier
Associate Professors of Practice
Valery Augustin, AIA
Lauren Matchison, AIA
Scott Mitchell
Lee Olvera
Selwyn Ting, AIA
Olivier Touraine
Assistant Professor of Practice
Geoffrey von Oeyen
Adjunct Professors
Michael Arden
Vinayak Bharne
Jeff Guh, PhD
Eric Haas, FAIA
Peyton Hall, FAIA
Rob Ley
Larry Scarpa, FAIA
Warren Techentin, FAIA
Patrick Tighe, FAIA, FAAR
Roland Wahlroos-Ritter
Adjunct Associate Professors
Tigran Ayrapetyan
Mina Chow, FAIA
Mario Cipresso, AIA
Victoria Coaloa
John Dutton, AIA
Miller Fong
Sophia Gruzdys
Jerry Hastings
Jessica Henson, ASLA
Michael Hricak, FAIA
Andy Ku
Lisa Little
Eric Nulman
Scott Uriu
Eui-Sung Yi
Adjunct Assistant Professors
Rob Berry
Mary Casper
Lauren Dandridge
Janek Dombrowa
Peter Ekman, PhD
Kathryn Horak
Christof Jantzen
Erin Kasimow
John Lesak
Jay Platt
Marcos Sanchez, PhD
Takako Tajima
Brian Tichenor, AIA, ASLA
Lecturers
Kais Al-Rawi
Frances Anderton
Victoria Behner, PhD
Jasmine Benyamin, PhD
Emily Bills
Hallie Black
Parbi Boodaghian
Anthony Brower, AIA
Isaac Brown, DEnv
Gesa Buttner-Dias
Erik Carver
Vlanka Catalan
Dora Chi
Kate Chiu
Matt Conway
Chava Danielson, AIA
Meredith Drake Reitan, PhD
Lauren Elachi
Wendy Fok, DDes
David Gerber, DDes
Evelyn Brooke Hair
Lauren Hamer
Sarah Hammond
Douglas Kent
Andrew Kovacs
Jimenez Lai
Alexandra Lillo
Xun Liu
Ryan Martinez
Soheil Mohammadi
Emily Mohr
Farre (Faith) Nixon
Amanda Ortland
Michael Patterson, PhD
Shane Reiner-Roth
Rodolfo Reis-Dias
Juan Salazar
Kris Sandheinrich
Lee Schneider
David Schoen
Santosh Shahi, PhD
Kevin Sherrod
Teddy Slowik
John Southern
Julia Sulzer
Gideon Susman
Takayuki Tachibe
Sanjeev Tankha, AIA
Evelyn Tickle, FAAR
Jennifer Toy, RLA
Elizabeth Valmont
Harrington, PhD
Ying Wang
Yaohua Wang
Jia Zhou Zhu
Citizen Architect Fellows
Gillian Shaffer Lutsko
Daniel Tran
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jessica Varner, PhD
Emeritus Professors
James Ambrose
Frank Dimster
Robert S. Harris
Ralph Knowles
Graeme M. Morland
Goetz Schierle, PhD James Steele, PhD
ADMINISTRATION
Willow Bay Interim Dean
Nadia Afghani
Digital Fabrication Lab Manager
Bintou Agne Payroll/Personnel Coordinator
Elisabeth Archer Undergraduate Admissions Coordinator
Daphne Areta Student Services Advisor
Chris Beas Workshop Coordinator
Courtney Brubaker Events Coordinator
Kay Chang Faculty Affairs & Research Initiatives
Steven Fimbres Webmaster
Carla Hashley Program Specialist
Liz Iracki Senior Major Gifts Officer
Kirsten Peterson Johansen Assistant Dean for Advancement
Anna Jones Business Coordinator
Calvin Liu Budget and Business Technician
Raul Lopez Facilities Assistant
Elia Marshall Graduate Admissions Coordinator
Keiko McNally Assistant Dean of Communications and Marketing
Jennifer Park
Assistant Dean of Student Services
Lisa Shimabukuro
Assistant Director, Academic Services
Dipak Shirke Computer Services Consultant
Anthony Teran
Assistant Dean of Finance and Administration
Benjamin White
Arts and Facilities Manager
Amber Wright
Senior Alumni & Constituency Relations Officer
BOARD OF COUNCILORS
CO-CHAIRS
Edward (Ned) D. Fox, BS, MBA
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Vantage Property Investors, LLC
Grant C. Kirkpatrick, FAIA, B.ARCH
Founding Partner KAA Design
BOARD MEMBERS
Adele L. Chang, AIA Architect & President LCRA, Inc.
George Chow, B.ARCH Executive Director Ben Da Investments Limited
Frederick Fisher, AIA, FAAR Principal Frederick Fisher and Partners
Patricia Tung Gaw Managing Partner Fera International Corp.
James House, FAIA, LEED AP, NCARB, B.ARCH, BS Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer House Robertson Architects
Jenna Townsend Knudsen, B.ARCH President CO Architects
Randall Koenig, BA Founding Partner Koenig Jacobsen, LLP
Aline Kradjian, M.RED Founder and President The ARD Group, Inc.
John Labib, S.E. Principal Labib Funk + Associates
Chase L. Leavitt, BS, MBA Principal Pacific Beacon Properties, LLC
Alan Lee, B.ARCH Principal Redhill Advisors Inc.
Bryant Lu Vice Chairman Ronald Lu & Partners
David C. Martin, FAIA, B.ARCH
Co-Founder
MADWORKSHOP
Steven F. Matt Co-Founder and Chairman MATT Construction Corporation
Kelly Sutherlin McLeod, FAIA, BS, B.ARCH President Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Architecture, Inc. (KSMA)
Mauricio Oberfeld, B.ARCH Founding Partner Dugally Oberfeld, Inc.
Ernesto M. Vasquez, FAIA Partner and Chief Executive Officer SVA Architects
George (Trace) F. Wilson III, AIA, B.ARCH Principal Materia
Maria Warner Wong, B.ARCH Design Director and Co-Founder Warner Wong Design and WOW Architects
Stephen S. S. Wong, AIA, BS, M.ARCH
Founder Atelier Capital Global Partners Limited
President
Jenna Knudsen, M.ARCH CO Architects
President - Elect
Dan Stafford, BS McCarthy Building Companies
Secretary
Ron Elazar Morley Builders
Ex-Officio
Amy Pokawatana, B.ARCH
Hudson Pacific Properties
ARCHITECTURAL GUILD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BOARD MEMBERS
Gabrielle Bullock Perkins + Will
Adaeze Cadet HOK
Allen Escobedo, BS, MS KPFF
Eric Halm Bernards
Krystal Hamner, B.ARCH BArch Builder Architects
David Huchteman
Carrier Johnson + Culture
Dana McKinney University of Maryland
Mark Motonaga, B.ARCH RIOS
Bee Rarewala, BA CallisonRTKL
Ben Rogowski, BS, MS
John A. Martin & Associates, Inc.
Robert Soto
Sharpe Interior Systems, Inc.
Diana Tang, B.ARCH
HKS Architects, Inc.
Serena Winner, B.ARCH Gensler
Recent Graduate
John Hernandez, B.ARCH SOM
Parent Representative
Angela Kwan
Faculty Representatives
Lauren Dandridge
Alvin Huang, B.ARCH
Student Representatives
Calder Scarpa
B.ARCH candidate 2024
Madelene Dailey
M.ARCH candidate 2024
USC SENIOR ADMINISTRATION
Carol L. Folt
President
Elizabeth Graddy
Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs
Monique S. Allard
Vice President for Student Life
Mike Bohn
Director of Athletics
Erik Brink
Interim Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer
Amy Diamond Chief Investment Officer
Samuel Garrison Senior Vice President, University Relations
Rodney B. Hanners
CEO of Keck Medicine of USC and President and CEO of USC Health System
Kyle Henley
Senior Vice President of Communications
Beong-Soo Kim
Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Christopher Manning
Chief Inclusion and Diversity Officer
Ishwar K. Puri
Senior Vice President, Research and Innovation
Steven D. Shapiro
Senior Vice President for Health Affairs
Scott Rabenold
Senior Vice President for University Advancement
Felicia A. Washington
Senior Vice President of Human Resources
David W. Wright
Senior Vice President, Administration
Rene Pak Chief of Staff
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