Kristen is an architect and community collaborator with experience working in community development, affordable housing and disaster recovery. Before joining Hester Street, she was an Enterprise Rose Fellow in Boston with Urban Edge and Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation where she helped lead work that amplified residents’ understanding and ownership of their communities and built environment. She was involved in a community-driven land acquisition process and the creation and execution of leadership training modules for Boston Housing Authority residents about design, development and community engagement.

Prior to serving as a Rose Fellow, she managed projects at the Pratt Center for Community Development in New York City related to post-Sandy recovery and energy efficiency retrofits. In her work, she finds strength in partnering with community-based organizations, policymakers and government agencies to equip those on the front lines with the resources, tools and technical assistance to advocate for more equitable and just communities. Kristen serves on the board of the Association for Community Design. She holds a Master of Architecture from Parsons School of Design and an undergraduate degree from Brown University.

Warren is the son of an architect who grew up watching stories take shape in buildings. His passion for architecture deepened in the Pacific Northwest, where he became aware of the relationship between nature and the built environment. As a Monbusho scholar at Kobe University in Japan, Warren explored spatial patterns in traditional Japanese architecture. These early experiences informed his approach to design, and continue to guide his site-specific response to each landscape and the human conditions that shape it. While in graduate school, Warren interned at The Miller-Hull Partnership and NBBJ in Seattle. After graduating, he worked a few years for noted residential architect Tom Bosworth, FAIA. Since returning to Utah and joining Lloyd Architects as a managing partner and principal in 2000, Warren has developed a design-oriented practice with a diverse staff of young architects. He and his team have built successful residential and commercial projects in mountain settings and urban centers from the Wasatch Front to the Pacific Northwest. Warren’s commitment to architecture and design are evident in his community service and leadership. He both served on and chaired the Salt Lake City Historic Landmarks Commission during a critical time for preservation in historic neighborhoods. He has also served as a director of AIA Utah, is currently on the board of directors for the Utah Center for Architecture and serves as a member of the National Advisory Group for AIA CRAN (American Institute of Architects Custom Residential Architects Network). He’s a registered architect in Utah and Washington.

David Neiman founded the practice in 2000, specializing in single family and multi-family housing uniquely adapted to the Northwest climate. David’s work is characterized by a particular focus on the design of homes that are authentic to their time and place and configured to help build community among residents.

He is an active participant in development of public policy that governs neighborhood scale land use and zoning. He advocates for flexible land use policy that incentivizes innovation, quality design, and configuration that meets the needs of all citizens.

Before establishing his own practice in 2000, David worked at the Seattle office of NBBJ, specializing in large-scale public projects such as Safeco Field and the University of Washington Bothell Campus.

Alex oversees firm management and design and has decades of experience leading multifamily developments and community-based master plans. His career-long focus linking architecture to community organizing continues to shape the firm's body of work. Upon completing a Bachelor of Architecture at Cal Poly, San Louis Obispo (1993), Alex was honored with a Graham Foundation Fellowship and apprenticed with NGOs in India designing culturally appropriate, earthquake safe homes. After working a few years, he returned to academia and completed a Master of Science in Architecture from UC Berkeley (1998), focusing on homelessness in the US and post-disaster housing in developing nations. By the early 2000s Alex served on the Board of Directors of multiple housing justice organizations, including East Bay Housing Organizations (Oakland, CA), Just Cause Oakland (aka CJJC in Oakland, CA), and the Association for Community Design (Boston, MA). Today he can be found volunteering with the AIA, NOMA and DAP, and occasionally teaching community design studios at Portland State University.

Jesse is an award-winning architect who as become a national leader in green design and building science. Growing up in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, Jesse started his career working construction in high school. Since then, he’s been through every stage of design and building. Jesse is relentlessly practical, but he sees possibility for greatness in every project. He loves a good challenge.

Jesse’s always working on balancing elements—engineering with art and design, beauty with affordability, function with potential. His coworkers say that he’s grounded, precise, technically oriented, patient, and proven to get even the most impossible-seeming projects finished.

If Phil’s the initiator, the one who believes that if we jump, the net will appear, then Jesse’s the one who figures out how to build the best net. Jesse has “finisher tendencies,” and he relishes a seeing a puzzle through from start to finish. His portfolio straddles the residential and commercial worlds. A relentless learner, Jesse maintains our leadership in new energy efficient construction techniques, software adoption, and digital construction management.

Jesse is a graduate of the University of Oregon, current President Elect of AIA Maine, and a former board member of the Portland Society for Architecture. He’s a founding member of Passivhaus Maine and was the first architect in northern New England to become a Certified Passive House Consultant.