Julian Treasure helps leaders and teams to transform communication, performance, and relationships. His books, talks, and workshops reveal the science-backed secrets of conscious listening, powerful speaking, and designed sound to supercharge productivity, engagement, and well-being. Julian’s five TED talks, including the sixth most-viewed of all time, have been viewed more than 160 million times, and his online courses have taught over 150,000 students. He has written the books Sound Business, the award-winning How To Be Heard, and Sound Affects, and he curates The Listening Society online. He has been honored with Toastmasters’ Golden Gavel Award and the International Listening Association’s Special Recognition Award.

Zaid Alzaid is a licensed architect specializing in public infrastructure, civic architecture, and complex renovations across both public and private sectors. He currently serves as an Architectural Associate with San Francisco Public Works' Bureau of Architecture, where he oversees design and manages city projects including a behavioral health facility and healthcare campus infrastructure upgrades.

His role demands coordination with city agencies, contractors, and consultants to meet regulatory standards and operational needs. Previously, Zaid held positions at DAHLIN Architecture, Rivetna Architects, and Mode Architects, where he developed entire residential subdivisions in Marin and Sacramento counties, in addition to projects ranging from spiritual retreat master planning to award-winning urban developments.

Zaid's approach emphasizes practical solutions, focusing on execution, collaboration, and navigating the intersection of design, policy, and construction. His experience in both private development and public service establishes him as a strategic leader in civic architecture.

Peter has spent over three decades designing homeless shelters, affordable housing, and schools in California and working with low-income populations throughout south and southeast Asia.  He is a recipient of awards from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, Columbia and Harvard Universities, among other institutions.  At the Bureau of Architecture, he has been involved in the design, programming, and construction administration of multiple homeless shelters.

Kevin is a licensed California architect and healthcare specialist with 25+ years of planning, design, and construction experience. An emphasis on acute-care “OSHOD – 1” hospital environments, includes client representation and engagement, regulatory review and permitting, pre-construction, and construction administration services.

"Healthcare is an essential part San Francisco Public Works BDC. We support the 2016 Public Health & Safety Bond and advocate for community health and safety through project work at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center Campus and throughout the city. As a healthcare Architect I support capital development of acute care and clinical renovation efforts at ZSFG, such as the expansion of the City's only Psychiatric Emergency Services Clinic."

Kevin has a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, a Bachelor of Architecture, Cal Poly Pomona, College of Environmental Design, is a registered California Architect, and a DSW Trainer for the California Office of Emergency Services (CAL OES) Safety Assessment Program.

Julia Laue is City Architect & Bureau Manager for the Bureau of Architecture (BOA) for San Francisco’s Department of Public Works where her focus is excellence in Project Delivery and Design for the City's great Civic Projects. Her 28-year overall career prior to BOA ranged from multi-family housing, urban mix-use projects, healthcare, to hospitality. In 2013 she left the private sector to join BOA, where she oversees an architectural staff of 70+ to deliver hundreds of building & renovation projects for a diverse range of communities and neighborhoods. BOA’s projects range from Branch Libraries, Fire Stations, Auditoriums, Community & Rec Centers, Homeless Shelters & Alternative Housing, Hospital & Healthcare Clinics. Julia’s goal has always been to inspire cultural and strategic change, raising the bar in design and technical execution on all the projects and organizations she works with. Project delivery through great design and excellence in execution is Julia’s passion. 

Stephen Li is a Bay Area native and licensed architect practicing in California since 2011. He graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) school of Architecture. He has designed and completed projects throughout a variety of sectors including healthcare, hospitality, research and development labs, automotive, commercial and residential. His passion is rehabilitating historic buildings – providing new life to older buildings and neighborhoods so they can still be enjoyed by the local community. He has had the opportunity to work on significant projects such as Ghirardelli Square, Ahwahnee Hotel and Renoir Hotel.  

Stephen joined the Bureau of Architecture in 2024 and is working with the healthcare team. He is excited to continue stewarding San Francisco’s beautiful buildings and neighborhoods through architectural design. 

Aries Martin has 17 years of architectural experience in San Francisco working directly on projects that address vulnerable and minority populations. For 10 years Aries worked with a non-profit that promoted community-oriented architectural advocacy.  Giving those who often cannot afford architectural services an equal opportunity through community-based design and involvement.

After a decade Aries joined the Public Works Bureau of Architecture (BOA) and was given the opportunity to spearhead Projects for the Homeless as a Job Captain. Continuing to work on user-based humanitarian design and learning how to better serve the homeless through various architectural solutions and approaches. 

Colin Mosher, AIA, is a licensed architect with over 30 years of experience leading, coordinating, designing, and planning complex projects across the healthcare, commercial, urban design, infrastructure, science, and education sectors—both locally and internationally. He is currently leading the design and delivery teams for several high-profile healthcare projects at Public Works, including the Chinatown Public Health Center, Southeast Childhood Development Center, multiple projects at Laguna Honda Hospital, and the Crisis Prevention and Stabilization Unit.

Sunhwa Son is a licensed architect with over 20 years of experience and has joined recently the Bureau of Architecture (BOA) at San Francisco Public Works after successful completion of multi-function public facilities, City of South San Francisco Community Civic Campus project in the previous private firm. This community-driven design process reignited her passion to serve the community for public safety, wellness, and aspirations in creative and inspiring ways. She has broad planning and design experience including healthcare, commercial office, higher education, science and technology, adaptive reuse, federal, and civic projects. She has won design awards and has served as a member of the AIA CA Professional Practice Advisory Committee since 2022. She is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning with a Master’s degree.

Recognized for her equitable, sustainable design and advocacy for underserved communities, Darby Curtis founded Curtis + Ginsberg Architects in 1990. She has led award-winning projects for over 50 nonprofits, including The Fortune Society, Osborne Association, HELP USA, and Women’s Prison Association providing services to those impacted by the criminal justice system, along with institutions and 30 public agencies.  

Driven by a belief that architecture can be a catalyst for positive change, Ms. Curtis transformed a shuttered prison into the Fulton Community Re-entry Center, opening its doors in 2024 as a home for older returning citizens and space for Bronx nonprofits. This pioneering project of New York State’s initiative turning former correctional facilities into community hubs sets a new standard in integrated supportive housing. She has received the City & State’s 50 Over 50 Award celebrating age disruptors, as one of New York’s most accomplished leaders; and the Sarah Powell Huntington Leadership Award from the Women’s Prison Association for her professional work and volunteer service. Through her initiative, resourcefulness and ingenious planning, Darby Curtis demonstrates a commitment to public welfare and social justice by creating innovative and effective spaces that reflect dignity and respect. 

Elizabeth Gaynes stepped down as CEO and President of the Osborne Association in 2022, after a 38-year career at the helm of the 90-year old New York nonprofit organization committed to transforming prisons for the people who live in them, visit them, and work in them. During her tenure, Osborne grew from three people to more than 350, establishing educational, treatment, workforce, and family services in New York City, Newburgh, Buffalo, and in more than 25 prisons and jails. Under her leadership, Osborne acquired the former Fulton Correctional Facility to redevelop as a community reentry center for older adults leaving state prison. Ms. Gaynes has visited dozens of jails and prisons in six countries, as well as state and federal prisons in the US -- as an attorney, a service provider, and a family member. She served on the NY Governor’s Prison Redevelopment Commission, studying the potential for re-use for the state’s closed prisons. She began her career as a criminal defense attorney in Buffalo, NY, following the Attica uprising, and served as a staff attorney for Prisoners Legal Services of New York in Albany, NY. After leaving Osborne, she became a Senior Fellow at the New York Women’s Foundation, and in May 2024 was appointed as a Commissioner at the New York State Commission of Correction, an oversight agency charged with ensuring a safe, stable and humane correctional system.

Along with her daughter, Ms. Gaynes was the first person from the global North nominated for the World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child for their work on behalf of children affected by parental incarceration, and was named a Champion of Change for Children of Incarcerated Parents by the Obama White House. 

Elizabeth Gaynes holds a B.A. from Syracuse University, and a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law.

Marayca is a subject matter expert of distinguished ability and accomplishment in the field of criminal justice. Her extensive education and background uniquely combine the fields of penology, criminology, and justice architecture. 

Her body of work is international in scope. She has participated in a wide array of criminal justice reform projects and prison studies, both domestically in the USA and abroad (e.g., Australia, Canada, Europe, Central and South America), resulting in worldwide expertise and a deep understanding of correctional best practices, prison operations, and innovative models for offender management and intervention. 

In her current capacity as Lead Justice Planner with DLR Group, Marayca helps plan and program treatment-oriented correctional facilities that are holistic in their approach, preserve human rights, promote rehabilitation and healing, are safe and humane, and focused on innovative operational and programmatic models for positive change and successful re-entry.   

Marayca is a frequent speaker in a variety of academic, professional, and international forums and is actively involved with different international organizations that share the common goal of advancing the field of corrections and improving conditions of confinement for individuals in custody. She is a Member of the International Corrections and Prison Association (ICPA) Board of Directors, Co-chair of the ICPA’s Planning and Design Committee and a Member of the Academy of Architecture for Justice’s Leadership Group. 

Deanna Van Buren is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces. An architecture and real estate nonprofit working to end mass incarceration through place-based solutions, DJDS builds infrastructure that address its root causes: poverty, racism, unequal access to resources, and the criminal justice system itself. Van Buren has been profiled by The New York Times  and has written op-eds on the intersection of design and mass incarceration in outlets such as Politico, Architectural Record, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. Her TEDWomen talk on what a world without prisons could look like has been viewed more than one million times. She is the only architect to have been awarded the Rauschenberg Artist as Activist fellowship, and she is also the recipient of UC Berkeley’s Berkeley-Rupp Architecture Prize and Professorship. Van Buren received her BS in architecture from the University of Virginia and her MArch from Columbia University, and she is an alumna of the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. 

Adeleh Nejati is a senior associate, a senior healthcare planner, and a researcher with NBBJ in San Francisco, CA. With more than a decade of healthcare project experience, Adeleh brings a strong research and design background supported by research based, analytical problem-solving abilities. Blending her design and research experience, Adeleh takes a holistic approach to creating highly efficient and caring healthcare settings for patients, families, and staff. She has a passion for engaging with key stakeholders, using computational and lean planning tools to build consensus towards informed decision making. 

Stephen has dedicated his career to translating healthcare organizations’ vision, mission and strategic plans into meaningful spaces and experiences. An expert in the nexus between design and delivery; Stephen strives to help his clients and project teams define value, balancing internal and external factors that can erode team culture, quality and building performance. A versatile and innovative leader with over twenty-five years of design and construction experience, his collaborative approach to team building and communication support innovative exploration through lean processes to ensure decision makers are informed and equipped to make durable decisions. As a Principal with NBBJ's San Francisco office, he reaches across practices and regions to ensure that the latest thought leadership and resources are engaged. 

Mete brings over more than 20 years of diverse professional experience, spanning national and international projects across a range of sectors including science, mixed-use, corporate commercial, higher education, urban design and planning. Mete holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Istanbul Technical University. In addition to his professional experience, Mete has served as a lecturer and frequent guest critic at institutions such as Harvard University, Rice University, UC Berkeley, and the University of Houston. He has received numerous awards for his design work, most recently being named to the Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard of 2024.