Editorial team

Editor-in-Chief Beresford Pratt, AIA, NOMA Pratt is an architect and associate with Ayers Saint Gross. He focuses on higher education design with a specialty in active learning spaces and co-leads multiple J.E.D.I based architecture pipeline initiatives with Baltimore, Maryland K-12 students. He is the AIA Young Architects Forum Communications Director.

Senior Editor Amaya Labrador, AIA, LEED AP BD+C Labrador is a healthcare project architect in the Houston studio of Perkins&Will. She currently serves on the AIA Houston Board of Directors, the Emerging Professionals Committee, and is the Young Architects Regional Director for the region of Texas.

Senior Editor Holly Harris, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C Harris is a healthcare architect and planner at SmithGroup in Chicago, Illinois. She co-leads the AIA Chicago Healthcare Knowledge Community and was selected for the Herman Miller Scholars Program for Emerging Professionals in Healthcare in 2019. She is the vice chair of the AIA Illinois Emerging Professionals Network and serves as the Young Architects Regional Director for the region of Illinois.

Senior Editor Matthew Pultorak, AIA, NCARB Pultorak is a Senior Planner/ Estimator for Rutgers University’s Planning Development and Design Team and Owner of Time Squared Architect, LLC in New Jersey. He currently serves as the Young Architects Regional Director for the region of New Jersey, Emerging Professionals Communities At-Large Director of Mentorship, and AIA Jersey Shore’s President-Elect.

Q1 Contributors:

Peter Exley, FAIA Abi Brown, AIA Ron Blitch, FAIA Gail Kubik, Assoc. AIA John Clark, AIA Greg Jameson Monica Blasko, AIA Katie Kangas, AIA Jason Takeuchi, AIA Adele Houghton, AIA Chris Fagan, AIA Katelyn Rossier, AIA Daniel Horn, AIA Charles Ou-Yang, Assoc. AIA Brittany Porter, AIA Kelsey Jordan, AIA Kiara Luers, AIA Kenneth Michel, AIA Knowledge Focus Group

Jason Takeuchi, AIA

Kiara Luers, AIA

Allie Ditzel, AIA

Ashley Hartshorn, AIA,

Caitlin Osepchuk, AIA