Kimberly Dowdell AIA, NOMAC collaborates with other members of the leadership team in HOK’s Chicago studio on strategic business development and marketing initiatives. In addition to cultivating and maintaining relationships with clients and partners, she is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events and a mentor to HOK’s emerging leaders. She is a co-chair of HOK’s Diversity Advisory Council.

Kimberly is the past president (2019-2020) of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and a member of the National Organization of Minority Architects Council (NOMAC), which is the organization’s highest level of recognition. She was a 2020 AIA Young Architects Award recipient and was recognized for her activism efforts by Architectural Record’s 2020 Women in Architecture Awards program.

Jeff Goldstein FAIA is a Principal and cofounding partner at DIGSAU, a 50-person studio practicing contemporary architecture, urbanism and environmental design. DIGSAU’s philosophy of practice is guided by a commitment to design excellence, social and environmental sustainability, and cultural resonance. Since 2007, the firm has built a reputation for socially engaged, innovative work that connects people to place, time, and each other.

The firm has been recognized more than sixty National, Regional, State, and Local Design Awards from the American Institute of Architects. DIGSAU was named one of North America’s “Emerging Voices” by the Architectural League of New York and the AIA Pennsylvania Chapter honored DIGSAU as the fifth recipient of the prestigious Firm Award, granted annually to a selected Pennsylvania firm whose efforts have consistently produced distinguished architecture for a period of at least 10 years. Their work has been exhibited at Temple University, Delaware College of Art and Design, and the Broad Museum and they have won multiple international design competitions. Projects have been published in trade and popular media outlets including Architectural Record, Architect, The Architect’s Newspaper, Dwell, CNN, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the New York Times.

Patricia Rhee FAIA is an AIA Fellow and Partner at Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects where she has practiced for over two decades. She has engaged in both nationally acclaimed and locally admired projects as Partner in Charge and Lead Designer - the most notable ones include The Culver Steps, John M. Roll United States Courthouse and The Press Adaptive Re-Use Campus. Her project experience ranges from civic to institutional and creative developments of all scales and with multiple delivery methods, including design-build.

Patricia is a Founding Co-Chair of the AIA Los Angeles Women in Architecture committee, has lectured internationally and serves as a juror and peer reviewer for the following institutions: GSA, OBO, AIA, DBIA and various universities across the nation. She is currently serving as the Kea Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland. In 2015, her studio received the national AIA Firm Award, one of the industry’s highest honors. Patricia received her Master's degree in Architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design and her Bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.