Arathi Gowda is a team leader for SOM's High Performance Design Group which leads the firm's Sustainability practice in Master Planning, Architecture and Interiors. As an educator she is committed to training the next generation of practitioners having taught coursework on sustainable urbanism at multiple universities, currently she is adjunct faculty at IIT. She is an advocate for collective climate action and is one of 20 Steering committee members for the US Architects Declare and the co-chair of AIA Chicago's 2030 Commitment Working Group.  Additional civic commitments include the AIA Chicago Board of Directors, Global Philanthropy Partnership Board, and the USGBC IL Green Carbon Drawdown Advisory Board. 

Gowda was honored with the individual Chapter Mission Award from Illinois Green (2016) and named one of ten recipients of Green Building & Design's Women in Sustainability Leadership Award (2019). Recently she was appointed to Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago Building Decarbonization task force (2021). 

Dom Lempereur leads the BlocPower engineering department. Over 28 years, Dom has assessed, developed, and managed energy improvements for over 200 million sqft of residential and commercial buildings. Dom served as an advisor to the NYC Mayor’s Office “80 by 50” Technical Working Group which identified citywide pathways to achieve NYC climate change goals, ensuring safe, reliable, and affordable energy. As a subject matter expert in building electrification, he also joined the NYC Urban Green Council and NYSERDA’s Building Electrification committees and reviewed the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) LL97/electrification roadmap. 

Sandra Mallory is the Buildings & Energy Program Manager in the Seattle Office of Sustainability and Environment. She leads the buildings team to develop programs and policies that will transition Seattle’s building sector to a net-zero carbon future. She developed the buildings priority actions for Seattle’s 2018 Climate Action Strategy and is managing their implementation. Additional key initiatives include creation of the Resource Conservation Management program for City-owned buildings and development of the Seattle Building Tune-Up mandate. She also designed and secured funding for the City’s Tune-Up Accelerator Program, a Department of Energy funded initiative to assist owners of small to medium sized buildings comply with the mandate. Before joining the City, Sandra both practiced architecture – with Environmental Works, where she focused on greening affordable housing – and taught Sustainable Design – in an interdisciplinary Sustainable Systems program.