Carol is a visionary architect, urbanist, mentor, and educator, and has relentlessly advocated that excellent design is a right, not a privilege. Through her unwavering dedication to crafting public buildings and spaces that elevate our daily lives, she has produced distinctive structures and places that have become cultural icons.

Notable projects include design of the new Oklahoma City Federal Building replacing the bombed Murrah Federal Building for the U.S. General Services Administration;Chicago Riverwalk; McDonald’s Chicago and Disney World Flagship Restaurants; Searle Visitor Center at the Lincoln Park Zoo; JRC Synagogue; CTA Cermak and Morgan Street Stations; UMD Civil Engineering Building; Multi-Modal Terminal at O’Hare International Airport; NASA Aerospace Communications Facility; Railyard Park in Rogers, AR and Chicago’s new DuSable Park.

Honors include over 200 major design awards, including the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Award; fourteen National American Institute of Architects Honor Awards for Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design; two AIA Committee on the Environment, Top Ten Project Awards for sustainably designed buildings and over 45 AIA Chicago Awards.

Carol is a graduate of the University of Illinois and served as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica planning national parks. She has taught an advanced Design Studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology for over thirty years.

Carol has left an indelible mark on the architectural community. Her influence is a testament to her unparalleled skill, innovative spirit, and commitment to making design accessible to all.

William is a Founding Principal of San Francisco-based LEDDY MAYTUM STACY Architects

(LMS A), the 2017 recipient of the national American Institute of Architects Firm Award. For over three decades he has been a national leader in the design of environments that promote social justice, inclusion, and urgent climate action. LMS A has received over 175 regional, national and international design awards and has been recognized by numerous organizations including the American Institute of Architects, the French Institute of Architects, the Norwegian Association of Architects, the U.S. Department of Energy, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the National Building Museum. LMS A is one of only three firms in the nation to have received twelve or more national AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Green Project awards – the Institute’s highest recognition of integrated design excellence. Leddy has lectured widely and served as visiting professor at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the California College of the Arts, as the Howard A. Friedman Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Pietro Belluschi Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon. His 2010 design for the Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley, California - an international center for the Disabled Rights Movement - is widely recognized as a national landmark of advanced Universal Design at a civic scale. The simple, replicable UD design strategies developed at the ERC have been applied to all the firm’s projects since, creating inviting public spaces that welcome everyone regardless of age or ability.

LMS A’s new book - “Practice with Purpose: A Guide to Mission Driven Design” - was published in 2023.

Kira is a writer, strategist, and convener focused on advancing design leadership and climate action. Kira is the co-host of the Design the Future podcast with Lindsay Baker. Through Kira Gould CONNECT, she consults on strategy and communications to organizations working toward a regenerative future. She is a Senior Fellow with Architecture 2030 and is a volunteer with the American Institute of Architects national Committee on the Environment. She co-authored Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design (Ecotone, 2007) with the late architect and author Lance Hosey. She worked on staff at Metropolis magazine and in-house at Multistudio (when it was Gould Evans), and William McDonough + Partners before starting her consultancy. She lives in the Kansas City area with her family.

Research Interests

Net-zero energy buildings, Building energy simulation, Daylighting, Energy efficiency in residential & commercial buildings, Passive solar building systems, Operation & maintenance of high performance buildings, Indoor environmental quality, Life Cycle Analysis.

Teaching Interests

Environmental control systems, Building performance assessment, Building performance assessment software, Daylighting, High performance buildings

Throughout the 1980s, Steve Juroszek worked as an architect at W.C. Muchow and Partners in Denver, Colorado—gaining experience on a wide range of commercial and institutional projects—before returning to the University of Washington. At the University of Washington, he undertook a study of the characteristics and patterns of rural environments and received his Master of Architecture degree. After teaching as a part-time lecturer for three years at the University of Washington, he returned to MSU and teaches architectural graphics and design studios with a focus on digital applications. His research has focused on the area of design communication—both digital and analog. He is an active member of the Design Communication Association (DCA) having served as co-president of the DCA as well as co-chair of three DCA conferences. He was the co-recipient—with Jeffrey K. Oschner—of the Lionel Pries Prize for teaching at the University of Washington and the MSU President’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He has collaborated with Professor Emeritus Francis D.K. Ching on Design Drawing and with Steven R Winkel and David S. Collins on a series of publications illustrating building codes.

Research Interests

Design drawing, digital applications in architecture, communication of building codes, accessibility codes, teaching pedagogy

Teaching Interests

Design communication, architectural design studio, digital applications in architecture

Chere's initial work with the AIA national focused on reshaping the profession to be more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. Over time, her efforts evolved to incorporate the principles of the United Nations’ New Urban Agenda (NUA) into architectural practice. This agenda seeks to renew global commitments to sustainable development, and the AIA has adapted it through initiatives aimed at designing more equitable communities.

In addition to this, her research explores the integration of resilience and equity at the ecosystem scale, emphasizing how this perspective is essential in counteracting the ongoing climate crisis, mass species extinction, and environmental degradation.

Teaching Interests

Architecture is currently facing significant ethical challenges that will determine its future relevance. These include the intensifying climate crisis, growing health and economic disparities within communities, and the widespread environmental degradation contributing to global biodiversity loss. To address these challenges, the profession must transcend traditional models, reevaluating both career paths and the broader role architects play in shaping their communities.

As leaders in the built environment, architects are uniquely positioned to drive positive change and actively contribute to solving these urgent issues. Chere’s teaching philosophy reflects this commitment, informed by her national work with the AIA. She played a pivotal role in creating the AIA Guides for Equitable Practice and incorporating the United Nations’ New Urban Agenda Sustainable Development Goals into key frameworks within the AIA. These efforts have since been integrated into architectural curricula across the country, becoming essential components of accreditation standards that emphasize social equity and inclusion in design.

AIA Montana Past President