The Alumni Council is the primary representative body of Graduate School of Design alumni. With the fundamental goal to promote the GSD and bring the School to the world, the Council membership spans a wide array of fields, demographics, and regions. These distinguished practitioners and academics are highly engaged in not only the design issues of the day but also civic, professional, governmental, and business affairs within their communities. Council members provide a strong link between the walls of Gund Hall and the “real world” beyond. They contribute to the welfare of the School by connecting alumni and students, and by representing excellence in their chosen professions, which reflect the School’s diverse array of programs.
Alumni Council
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Alumni Council
2020-2021
Cathy Deino Blake MLA '77
Director of Campus Planning and Design, Stanford University
Mountain View, CA

Justin Chapman MDes '12
Development Manager, Skanska Commercial Development US
Potomac, Maryland

Renée Cheng AB '85, MArch '89
Dean of the College of Built Environments, University of Washington
Seattle, WA

Sekou Cooke MArch '14
Assistant Professor, Syracuse University School of Architecture
Syracuse, NY

John Friedman MArch '90
Co-founder and Principal, John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects (JFAK)
Los Angeles, CA

Brenda Levin, FAIA, MArch '76
President and Principal, Levin & Associates
Los Angeles, CA

Zakcq Lockrem MUP '10
Principal and Director of Planning, Asakura Robinson
Minneapolis, MN

Anne-Marie Lubenau, FAIA, LF '12
Director of the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, Bruner Foundation
Cambridge, MA

Allyson Mendenhall, FASLA, AB '90, MLA '99
Principal and Director of Legacy Design, Design Workshop
Denver, CO

Shunsaku Miyagi MLA '86
Partner, PLACEMEDIA Landscape Architects Collaborative
Professor of Urban Design, Graduate School of Urban Engineering at the University of Tokyo
Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan

David A. Rubin MLA '90
Founding Principal of DAVID RUBIN Land Collective
Philadelphia, PA

Frank Ruchala Jr. MArch '05, MUP '05
Deputy Director for Zoning, NYC Department of City Planning
New York, NY

Eric Shaw MUP '00
Director, Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development
San Francisco, CA

Zenovia Toloudi DDes '11
Founder, Studio Z; Assistant Professor of Architecture, Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH

Sameh Wahba MUP '97, PhD '02, KSGEE '13
Global Director, Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice, The World Bank
Washington, DC

Kristina Yu MArch '95
Principal, McCLAIN+YU Architecture and Professor, School of Architecture and Planning at University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
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