Andrew L. Dannenberg, is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences and in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, where he teaches courses on health and built environment and on health impact assessment. Before coming to Seattle, he served as Team Leader of the Healthy Community Design Initiative in the National Center for Environmental Health at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For the past 20 years, his research and teaching have focused on examining the health aspects of community design, including land use, transportation, urban planning, equity, climate change and other issues related to the built environment. He has a particular interest in the use of a health impact assessment as a tool to inform community planners about the health consequences of their decisions. Previously, he served as director of CDC's Division of Applied Public Health Training, as Preventive Medicine Residency director and injury prevention epidemiologist on the faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, and as a cardiovascular epidemiologist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda. Dr. Dannenberg is board-certified in preventive medicine (1986-present). He completed a residency in family practice at the Medical University of South Carolina and was board-certified in family practice (1982-1989).

Chris is the Living Building Challenge Services Director, senior architect and author with The Miller Hull Partnership in Seattle with a variety of project experience including five certified Living Buildings and several more currently in design and construction. His book, Living Building Education, chronicles the story behind his first Living Building, the Bertschi School. Chris founded the Seattle 2030 Roundtable and co-founded the Healthy Materials Collaborative. A Living Future Accredited professional and a Living Building Challenge Hero, Chris is a university guest lecturer and speaker at conferences across the country. He works on state and local environmental policy, publishes articles and volunteers with local school groups mentoring students about sustainable practices and advocacy. As an Affiliate Instructor with the University of Washington, Chris teaches a graduate sustainability course for the College of Built Environments. Chris is also recipient of the AIA’s Young Architect Award.

Jordan Luther is a second year Master of Architecture student at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her Bachelor of Science in Architecture with minors in Art History and Building Construction Technology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the Spring of 2021. Her interdisciplinary research project focuses on biophilic design patterns and their impact on human perception and health in hospital patient rooms. The CRIT program has been tremendously beneficial in her experience and enabled her to become deeply engaged in the realm of evidence based design research. Luther had the opportunity to further her research by submitting her protocol to the Institutional Review Board and meeting with medical professionals to refine her study. She additionally had the pleasure of collaborating with designers and academic professionals to develop a better understanding of the evidence based design research process and its application to biophilic design. Luther’s experience in the CRIT Scholar program will be critical as she crafts her masters thesis investigating alternative design solutions to create safe, eco-ethical healing spaces for trauma patients, to alleviate ICU delirium.