Grace Kim is an architect and co-founding principal of Schemata Workshop, a Seattle-based architectural practice with a keen focus on community, social equity and sustainability. Her firm works on projects that shape Seattle and guide its growth – such as transit stations, the Seattle Central Waterfront, affordable housing and the Capitol Hill Transit Oriented Development. She brings innovative ideas to her projects that merge client goals and sustainability measures – including urban agriculture, modular construction, and a strong focus on building community. Her clients include a range of public housing authorities, non-profit housing developers, and social service providers. Grace’s work is deeply rooted in race, equity and inclusion – and is skilled at community engagement as she seeks to include the voices and cultures of people of color and marginalized populations through her projects.

Grace is also a co-founder and resident of Capitol Hill Urban Cohousing, a collaborative residential community which includes her street level office and a rooftop urban farm. She walks the talk of sustainability - living a small ecological footprint while incorporating holistic ideals of social and economic resilience into her daily life. She is an internationally recognized expert in cohousing; and her TED talk on cohousing as an antidote to loneliness has over 2.4M views.

Grace currently serves on the Seattle Planning Commission as well as the Board of Directors the Housing Development Consortium – a non-profit organization that advocates for affordable housing.

An Assistant Director with the City University of New York (CUNY), the largest urban public university system in the United States, responsible for managing design projects at six campuses located in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. Prior to CUNY Barbara headed the units responsible for capital projects for the NYPD and public library systems for the NYC Department of Design & Construction (DDC), a city agency. Before entering the public sector in 2010 Barbara worked in the private sector. As an Associate with Fisher Dachs Associates (FDA), a theater design and planning firm, she was responsible for design and management of award-winning performance facilities throughout the United States during her 12 years with the firm. Earlier Barbara practiced architecture at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects and Prentice & Chan, Ohlhausen Architects.

Barbara has been an active member of AIA New York serving on the Board, as the Oculus Committee chair from 2014 – 2017, and the AIA NY Cultural Facilities Committee Co-Chair from 2004 - 2013. Currently Barbara is a mentor with the AIA NY 2020 Torch Mentorship program. She was also a recipient of an AIA NY LeBrun travel grant in 2000. In 2019 Barbara was appointed to NYC Community Board 5 where she serves on the Landmarks Committee and the Park & Public Space Committee. Barbara received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her M.Arch from UCLA.

Jennifer Workman is a registered architect and an Associate at VLK|Architects where she serves as the Architecture Director for their Dallas office. She received a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin and focused her studies on various museums throughout Europe. Her most notable project was the Perot Museum of Nature & Science where she worked in Los Angeles, CA under Morphosis on design and construction documents and then in Dallas on the construction of the museum.

Shortly after graduation, Jennifer became engaged in the American Institute of Architects and saw that she could give a voice to emerging professionals on the local, state, and national level. She served for two years on the Dallas AIA Executive Committee and five years on the Texas Society of Architects Board, including her role as Vice President of Member Services. Nationally, she served in various Chair positions focusing on emerging professionals and was most recently elected for the 3-year term of At-Large Director to the AIA Board of Directors.

Her interests have earned her a national AIA Young Architect Award, Building Design + Construction’s, 40 under 40, and the Texas Society of Architects William Caudill Award for Young Professional Achievement. Her efforts are also published in GA Document, Architect, AIArchitect, Texas Architect, and Columns magazines.