Tommaso focuses on two aspects of climate responsive design: architecture and climate engineering based on his professional value of ‘sufficiency before efficiency‘. Tommaso deeply believes that a decision-making process based on a solid engineered and out-of-the-box thinking leads to resource conscious solutions and high quality built environments. It is important to him to keep environmental impacts such as CO2 emissions as low as possible in all projects.

His unique perspective on the integrated design process together with his understanding of both the architectural and the engineering approaches facilitate the communication of complex strategies to the design team. He is committed to education with the goal of helping the next generation rethink how to combat climate change and conserve the planet's limited resources.

As a Principal/Owner with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Ray Calabro FAIA MRAIC designs projects that respond sensitively to the culture and spirit of each place. With 30 years of experience, he brings a passion for the design process to buildings for higher education, cultural institutions, commercial clients as well as extraordinary private residences across the US and Canada. Ray’s work has been recognized with national and international awards for design, and has been published in Architectural Record, ArchDaily, Architectural Digest, Dwell, Global Architecture and The PLAN. In 2014, he was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows.

Mark Cork is a partner at Mahlum and a leader of the firm’s higher education practice, specializing in planning and design of campus environments. Leading projects and collaborating with peer organizations, he is a champion of ambitious integrated design strategies that enhance the learning process and long-term building and infrastructure performance. Cork is also a past president of AIA Washington Council and ongoing member of its Practice Committee where he advocates on behalf of the profession and for public policy and legislation that recognize the importance of the built environment on community health and wellbeing.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Brian is a partner and a design leader at Miller Hull. Through his 20-year career, his commitment to design and sustainability has earned him a reputation as a prominent performance-driven architect. Leading the design of some of the country’s most sustainable buildings like the Bullitt Center and the Kendeda Building – the first Living Building Challenge project to win an AIA National Award – Brian is responsible for helping to affirm this approach and prove to the industry that ethics and aesthetics can, in fact, coexist.

Mark Cameron, Hon. AIA, established Cameron MacAllister Group in 1986 to provide marketing advice and strategies to design firms. Prior, he was director of marketing for NBBJ and The Architects Collaborative.

Mark’s expertise includes strategic planning, leadership development, training, and ownership transition. He has conducted numerous training workshops throughout the United States and United Kingdom on communicating difficult messages, presenting competitively, listening and communication, client development, and strategic planning.

Mark has lectured on strategic planning and marketing at the University of California Berkeley School of Architecture, the University of Washington School of Business Administration, the American Institute of Architects national convention and local chapter events, and the Society for Marketing Professional Services national convention and local chapter events. He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of AIA/San Francisco.

In 2016, the American Institute of Architects conferred Honorary Membership upon Mark in recognition for his contribution to the profession. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Milligan College, a master’s degree from The Divinity School at Harvard University, and he also studied at Boston Architectural College.

Practicing at the intersection of architecture and interiors, Stacey Crumbaker grounds her approach in human experience and community voice. With 19 years of experience, she focuses on innovative learning spaces and is an Accredited Learning Environments Planner with Mahlum. She advocates for co-creation as a pathway to meaningful architectural experiences, fostering connections through community engagement. Stacey serves as President-Elect of the IIDA International Board and Director of DEI for the Washington State A4LE Chapter.

Stacey holds Bachelor of Science in Interior Design and Master of Architecture degrees from Arizona State University.

Clark Davis, FAIA, LEED AP, leads many of Cameron MacAllister Group’s services in practice management, organizational and leadership development, and firm governance.

Prior to joining Cameron MacAllister Group, Clark was a senior principal at HOK for nearly 25 years. He served for 12 years as vice chairman and a member of the firm’s executive committee, and for 19 years as managing principal of HOK’s headquarters office in St Louis, Missouri. He led the creation of a broader regional practice, with new offices in Chicago and Denver, and organized firm-wide practices in healthcare, science & technology, aviation, corporate accounts, and other key markets. He was responsible for the entire firm’s marketing, communications, business planning, and website development.  

Clark has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. He was president of AIA St. Louis and AIA Missouri, and he served on the Executive Committee of the AIA Large Firm Roundtable. 

Since 2012, Clark has led the Managing Uncertainty research initiative for the AIA, the AIA Large Firm Roundtable, AGC, DBIA, LCI, COAA, and other industry bodies. The original research, performed by McGraw Hill Construction under contract with the Large Firm Round Table (LFRT), concluded with the Managing Uncertainty and Expectations in Building Design and Construction report, published in 2014. Clark was the author of the Managing Uncertainty Project Planning Guide for Owners and Project Teams, published by Dodge Data & Analytics in 2018. He has reported on the results from the research at numerous industry conferences. Clark also was the author of the “Architectural Services and Compensation” chapter of The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice, 13th and 14th editions, published by the AIA.

Clark holds degrees in architecture from the University of Kansas and the University of Michigan and he has chaired advisory boards at both institutions.

Saskia Dennis-van Dijl advises Cameron MacAllister clients in the areas of marketing, practice management, leadership development, and strategic planning.

Guiding clients through the development and implementation of strategic and tactical marketing plans and budgets, Saskia provides counsel to in-house marketing principals and senior marketing staff on best practices, marketing trends, and prospective clients. She also leads training workshops for architects, engineers, and related professionals throughout the United States on topics including: Presenting for Success, Client Care and Business Development, Effective Communications, and Basics of Marketing.

In recent years, Saskia has focused extensively on leadership development in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry including a deep commitment to concerns related to diversity equity and inclusion. She was a founding member of the 2014 Equity by Design research project sponsored by AIA San Francisco and now works with companies around the nation on culture and policy development to achieve goals of diversity and inclusion in all aspects.  Saskia has spoken widely on the topic including presenting to the AIA, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and several other national and regional groups. 

In 2018, Saskia was named a Women of Vision award winner by the Portland Daily Journal of Commerce. She was one of 50 women honored for their roles in shaping the industry in Oregon and southwest Washington. Saskia also serves as Executive Director of the Global Design Alliance, an international network of 19 design, planning and construction firms who are committed to fostering dynamic growth and change. 

Saskia joined Cameron MacAllister Group in 1999 after 11 years as Director of Business Development for Esherick Homsey Dodge and Davis (EHDD), an architectural firm based in San Francisco.

Rama has worked at Autodesk for over 15 years across many domains. As the Head of

Global Impact Partnership, she leads the strategy and implementation of this program

whose goal is to collaborate with our customers and across industries by leveraging technology to solve sector-wide sustainability challenges. With a goal of producing scalable sustainable outcomes, we focus on building relationships, catalyzing collection action and influencing and informing industry ambition and regulation. In this role, Rama also has the pleasure of co-producing the annual COP strategy (since COP26 Glasgow) and has spoken, curated and moderated numerous international panels on decarbonization, technology and partnership strategies. Rama is the Liaison Delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and a West Coast Council member of the Smithsonian Institution.

A New York native with established roots in California, Rama is a born optimist who has worked in technology and entertainment for over 25 years. Throughout her 15+year

tenure at Autodesk, a 3D Design & Make software company, she has had the pleasure of working with partners around the globe across industries and is daily energized by the

future of how things are being designed and built.

Keri joined Hacker in 2017 inspired by the firm’s design rigor and advocacy for meaningful spaces. Keri brings clear conceptual thinking and a high level of detail across all scales and various project types ranging from cultural, civic, hospitality, and multifamily. Her design approach explores how architecture can unite people, culture, and the natural landscape resulting in spaces that connect us more to ourselves and the places we inhabit.

A Native Hawaiian-Japanese Architect, Keri is a founding board member of the National Organization of Minority Architects – Portland Chapter (NOMA PDX) where she served as Parliamentarian for four years. Outside of office, Keri is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oregon and can be seen volunteering for NOMA PDX community events.

In his dual role as President and Chief Design Officer (CDO), Keith guides the firm’s integrated, design process, which connects building performance and design excellence on every project, regardless of scale or budget. A passionate advocate for the benefits of a research-based, multi-discipline approach, he is helping to lead the national industry’s effort to develop best practices for developing higher performing buildings that better serve people.

Laura is a trusted adviser to corporate clients, including architects and engineers, working closely with them to identify and resolve legal issues involving employment, contract and ownership transition issues.

She assists clients through the corporate life cycle, addressing formation issues in the start-up phase on through to developing and implementing an exit strategy. She possesses extensive experience in general corporate counseling, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and ownership transition and provides results-oriented and practical solutions to her clients’ legal challenges. During her career, she has handled transactions in excess of $300 million in enterprise value.

Laura is Co-Chair of the firm’s Architecture, Engineering & Design Professional Firms practice, as well as the Business Succession Planning practice. She served for three years as the Managing Partner of the San Francisco office, has been a Co-Chair of the firm's Partnership Advancement Committee and a member of its Diversity Committee and Accounts Receivable Committee.

Brad Jacobson, FAIA, LEED AP, DBIA, is a Principal at EHDD, a west coast-based architecture firm leading the way towards a climate positive built environment. He has led the design teams for two AIA COTE Top Ten projects including the LEED Platinum and certified net zero energy David and Lucile Packard Foundation Headquarters and recently spearheaded the delivery of a mass timber office campus for YouTube achieving LEED Platinum certification and 24-7 carbon free energy performance. Today, Brad is co-founder of C.Scale, advancing building decarbonization through whole life carbon data models and software tools for all designers and building professionals everywhere. 

Bryan is an architect and leading design justice advocate. As the founder and director of Colloqate Design, a nonprofit design practice, Bryan is committed to using design as a tool for social change. Bryan is also a founding organizer of the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter University, which work to uplift the voices and perspectives of marginalized communities in the built environment.

Bryan has led two award-winning architecture and design programs for high school students, one through the Arts Council of New Orleans and the other through the National Organization of Minority Architects. Bryan is the 2025-26 National NOMA President. Bryan has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2018 Fast Company Most Creative People in Business, the Architectural League’s Emerging Voices award in 2019, the 2021 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, the 2023 United States Artist Fellow, and the recipient of the 2025 AIA Whitney M Young Jr Award, elevating him to the AIA College of Fellows.

As Lake|Flato’s Chief of Operations. Scott brings strong leadership and oversight to human resources, finance, management and business operations, ensuring that internal processes maximize the firm’s capabilities and growth capacity. He is committed to establishing an outstanding business culture supported by a sound financial and operational model to produce design of the highest quality. Scott’s attentiveness to organizational design and the alignment of process with organizational goals drives Lake|Flato’s success in an increasingly competitive marketplace. A graduate of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Architecture and the University of California, Los Angeles, with an MBA, Scott is as passionate about road biking, mountain biking and track racing as he is about behavior economics.

Syvia helps her clients with choice of entity decisions and entity formation, counsels businesses regarding general corporate matters and governance and regularly drafts and reviews contracts.

She works with clients to develop business succession plans to allow for internal ownership transition, and she represents clients in mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations. She also counsels clients regarding wind up and dissolution.

While Syvia’s clients come from a wide range of business sectors including the market research, public relations and custom furniture industries, a portion of her practice focuses on design professionals, including

architects, landscape architects, interior designers, engineers and environmental consultants. She drafts and reviews design services contracts and helps these clients to successfully transition ownership either internally, to a new generations of owners in order to allow for the growth of the design firms over multiple generations of

ownership and leadership, or externally to become part of a larger organization through merger and acquisition.

Cory is a senior associate and design leader with The Miller Hull Partnership in Seattle, WA. His professional and research work has centered around the development of low impact building solutions on challenging and remote sites. His work explores the relationship between the natural and built environments and seeks to amplify our experience of place. Mattheis currently serves as a part time lecturer and studio critic for the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. 

Amy Mielke is an Associate Principal at Ennead Architects and Director Emeritus of Ennead Lab, a research group within the firm engaged in design explorations aimed at expanding the traditional boundaries of professional architectural practice, including water infrastructure design, Brownfield Opportunity Area (BOA) engagement, and grant-funded research for education justice.  Amy is a design lead across multiple project sectors, including healthcare and commercial buildings, where she approaches architecture in service of people, place and environment, and recognizes that good design reverberates at a system scale.  

Named a “Game Changer” by Metropolis and a “Best Young Disrupter” by ArchDaily, she has been recognized internationally, including the Lafarge Holcim Gold Medal for North America, a global award for sustainable design. A frequent lecturer and visiting juror, she has taught and advised at Parsons School of Design and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.  

Amy grew up in Oklahoma, received a Bachelor of Architecture at Oklahoma State University in 2004 and a Master of Architecture at Yale University in 2013, and now lives with her family in Brooklyn, NY.

A Partner at LMN, Osama’s professional career has been grounded by a strong commitment to connect architecture to culture and place. His projects range from educational campuses, and cultural buildings, to complex civic green infrastructure projects that stitch together neighborhoods and communities. Osama’s notable recent projects include the Seattle Aquarium Ocean Pavilion, a new pavilion that provides an armature for immersive exhibits, hands-on exploration, and views of the surrounding landscape and urban waterfront, and the State Route 520 Lids and Bridges, an interconnected system of green infrastructure that enables a never-realized Olmsted plan for major boulevards, parks, and open spaces in Seattle. He has held several positions on boards and commissions serving the community and the profession, including the Seattle Design Commission ,AIA Seattle’s Public Policy Board, AIA Seattle’s Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion Council, the Yesler Terrace Citizens Advisory Committee, AIA Washington Council’s Board of Directors, and the Seattle ACE Mentor Program Board of Directors.

As Executive Director of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Seattle for the past 15 years, Lisa Richmond helped lead the association’s national agenda on climate change mitigation and adaptation. She partnered with Architecture 2030 on the development of the AIA+2030 Professional Series and Materials Matter, professional development programs that sought to transform architectural practice towards zero-carbon buildings.

Under her leadership, AIA Seattle’s Public Policy Board made significant progress on critical policy priorities including building electrification, and was a founding partner of Shift Zero, a green building advocacy consortium. She co-authored the AIA’s national climate plan, and supported development of climate action and education in AIA chapters across the US.

A serial entrepreneur, Lisa founded the Seattle Design Festival to spotlight design as a tool for progress, and developed Seattle’s Center for Architecture & Design, an exhibit and event space.  She received her BA from University of Virginia and an MA from University of Wisconsin, and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.  She is a certified leader and mentor with Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project.

Lisa is currently taking a sabbatical, using her time to accelerate her leadership on climate change and find inspiration in nature. She recently completed a 3-week solo bike trip down the coast of Oregon and California.

Siegel & Strain Architects is an award-winning firm focused on community projects and sustainable design. Larry served as project principal for many of the firm’s deep green, award-winning projects, including the Emeryville Resourceful Building Project, Camp Arroyo Environmental Education Camp and the Portola Valley Town Center, all AIA COTE Top Ten winners.

Larry has served on the boards of the Nor Cal Chapter of USGBC, Ecological Building Network and the Carbon Leadership Forum. He was on the research team for the CLF’s 2017 Embodied Carbon Benchmarking project and a founding member of the AIA’s Materials Knowledge Working group. Larry has been writing and speaking about materials, sustainable design, carbon and reusing buildings for 30 years. In 2020 he began developing the CARE Tool, an open access, web based tool for estimating the total carbon emissions of reusing and upgrading buildings compared to replacing them. The tool was officially launched in February, 2022 and is hosted by Architecture 2030.

Ozzie is a fervent advocate for a multidisciplinary, informed design process rooted in inclusive engagement with communities. He has led design on a generation of high-performance facilities that address the fast-evolving needs of students and educators — libraries, student unions, recreation & wellness centers, academic buildings, and complete campuses that are healthier, operate more efficiently and elevate the user experience. He was the recipient of the American Institute of Architects’ Young Architect award, in recognition of his distinguished body of work and efforts to integrate high performance design through a more inclusive, collaborative approach.

Emilio’s designs explore integration with the environment, context, and technology to create beautiful and functional spaces. His experience ranges from developer-led tech campuses to complex medical center replacements and leading- edge research laboratories for clients such as Arizona State University and the University of Texas at Austin. He joined CO Architects in 2020 and holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon.

Ted focuses on the design of public buildings and spaces, collaboratively leading the delivery of many of MJMA’s most challenging and ambitious projects. He has over 25 years of experience in the community, recreation and academic typologies. Framing design solutions around the progression of social, technical, and environmental issues, Ted strives to advance the architecture of civic places, understanding them as critical pieces of infrastructure supporting individual and community wellbeing.