Nila R. Leiserowitz, FASID, IIDA, Associate AIA
Chair

Nila Leiserowitz has spent 30 years pushing the limits of interior design and workplace performance strategy. Her passion for interior spaces and improving their service to the people who use those environments also drives her continued pursuit of education and outreach within the industry and beyond.

Internationally recognized as a leader in workplace design innovation, Nila has won numerous awards and honors from IIDA, ASID and AIA, and received ASID’s 2007 Designer of Distinction Award. Through her contributions to Gensler’s ongoing workplace research, Nila remains in front of emerging trends so she can counsel clients and design for the present and future of the office environment. Among her varied clients are Beckman Coulter, Disney, DreamWorks, Sony, Yahoo! and Herbalife.

Upon being named co-managing director of Gensler’s Los Angeles office, Nila created gServe, a community service and outreach group that organizes various programs to serve populations in need be they homeless, under- or unemployed, children at-risk or victims of domestic abuse. By creating a brand for the group and enlisting the most spirited and reliable volunteers to coordinate efforts, Nila ensured awareness of the group’s work and, in turn, the group’s ability to attract participation and administer successful programs.

Nila remains focused on education and continued training for all in the interior design community. She advocates certification and was national education chair at ASID. During her tenure as chair, Nila helped to create the society’s professional development program. She serves on the boards for interior design at UCLA Extension and University of Minnesota. Nila is a proponent of certification and active in the Interior Design Education Council’s campaign to increase awareness of the declining pool of interior design educators.

Penny Bonda, FASID, LEED AP
Chair-elect

Penny Bonda, FASID, LEED AP, a prominent writer and lecturer, is the founding chair of LEED for Commercial Interiors, the ASID Sustainable Design Council, and a principal developer of the REGREEN Residential Remodeling Guidelines. Her Design Green blog appears on Interior Design magazine’s online resource, The Green Zone. As a partner in the firm Ecoimpact Consulting, Penny assists businesses embrace sustainable strategies as a portal to achieving a greater competitive advantage.

Penny serves on the ASID Foundation Board of Trustees, Council for Interior Design Accreditation Standards Council, and the USGBC’s LEED training faculty. She was named to the National Register of Peer Professionals for GSA’s Design Excellence Program. She has received an honorary doctorate from the New York School of Interior Design and honorary Senior Fellowship from the Design Futures Council.

Penny is the recipient of ASID’s 2007 Designer of Distinction award and the 2003 USGBC Leadership Award. Her published works include the highly regarded Sustainable Commercial Interiors and Sustainability Matters, written with the General Services Administration.

Rosalyn Cama, FASID, NCIDQ, EDAC

Cama is President and Principal Interior Designer of the evidence-based planning and design firm CAMA, Inc., in New Haven, CT. The firm’s mission is to partner with its clients in support of their strategic plan to create interior environments that improve outcomes. Founded in 1983, CAMA, Inc. has completed design work for many clients nationwide in the area of healthcare and academic settings for higher education. Cama has served as national President of ASID and also currently serves as Chair of the Board for the Center for Health Design. Cama holds a BS degree with distinction in Interior Design and Textiles from the University of Connecticut. She is a frequent writer and lecturer on the topic of evidence-based healthcare design. Cama authored Evidence-Based Healthcare Design (Wiley, 2009).

Suzan Globus, FASID, LEED AP

Globus is principal of Globus Design Associates, a Red Bank, N.J., consultancy specializing in libraries and select residential interiors. Named an ASID fellow in 2004, Globus was a member of the ASID Board of Directors; chair of the ASID Education, Training and Advisory Council and the ASID Legislative Advisory Council; member of the ASID Professional Development Task Force; and Society representative to the NCIDQ Model Legislation Task Force. She also has been active in the ASID New Jersey chapter, serving as president and in various other capacities. Beyond ASID, Globus is involved in a number of professional associations and advisory boards, including the Advisory Board for the Interior Design Program at Brookdale College, Lincroft, N.J., where she is a former adjunct instructor; the New Jersey Coalition for Interior Design Legislation; and the InformeDesign® Advisory Board. After serving as NJCIDL past-president, the governor appointed Globus to the state's first interior design examination and evaluation committee. She received her bachelor's degree in journalism and public relations from the University of Maryland at College Park and her post-baccalaureate degree in interior design from Kean University, Union, N.J.

Dr. Theodore C. Landsmark, M.E.D., J.D., PH.D.

Landsmark has been president of Boston Architectural College since 1997. Dr. Landsmark holds degrees in law and environmental design from Yale University, and a doctorate in American Studies from Boston University. He has taught at M.I.T. and UMass Boston, and has been an administrator at Harvard University and the Massachusetts College of Art.  He practiced architectural law, and worked as Special Assistant to the Mayor of Boston.
He chaired in 2004 Mayor Thomas Menino’s Task Force on School Assignment, and has served as National Chair of the AIA Committee on Diversity since 2003. In 2006, he received the Whitney Young Jr. Award from the AIA for his work to promote diversity in the design profession. In 2005, he was elected President-Elect of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and took office as ACSA President in 2006.
He is a Trustee Emeritus of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and serves on the Board for the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Boston Fund for the Arts, the North Bennet Street School, the Pro-Arts Consortium, and the Boston Society of Architects. He is also affiliated with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Peabody Essex Museum, The Artists Foundation, and Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. In addition, Ted administered extensive efforts working as a consultant to projects involving 19th Century African American material culture, derived from his dissertation research at Boston University.
He is a regular contributor to the Maine Antique Digest, and has lectured nationally on architectural education, diversity in the design profession, community organizing, youth violence, and 19th Century African American material culture.  He is also a member of the Real Estate Advisory Committee through Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Judy Pickett, FASID

Pickett is principal and founder of Design Lines, Ltd., in Raleigh, N.C. A longtime leader in ASID, Pickett was honored with an ASID fellowship in 2005. She was a member of the ASID Board of Directors, chair of the ASID Education Council and co-chair of the ASID Communications and Knowledge Resources Advisory Council. Pickett also has worn a variety of leadership hats for the ASID Carolinas Chapter, including serving as president. An advocate for professional interior design legislation, she was chair of the ASID Legislative Task Force, chair of the National Legislative Coalition for Interior Design and president of the North Carolina State Legislative Coalition.

Outside of ASID, Pickett currently is a member of the Council for Interior Design Accreditation Evaluation Committee and is its site visitor chair. She is a member of the Meredith College Advisory Board and a member of the Existing Building Committee of the North Carolina Building Code Council. Pickett received her bachelor’s degree in interior design from Florida State University.

Jean Pinto ASID

Pinto has been a practicing professional interior designer specializing in residential and commercial design for 47 years. Originally a member of AID, she became a member of ASID in 1975. Pinto is a graduate of Woodbury University majoring in Interior Design, and Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, CA, with a BA in Art Education with a minor in Business. An involved member of the ASID California Los Angeles Chapter, Pinto has served as chapter president, board member at large, treasurer and chair of many committees, and will again serve as chapter president for the 2009 – 2010 year. Additionally, she is a past recipient of the Chapter Medalist Award, as well as multiple presidential citations for her past service.  

Pinto’s involvement in the community extends far beyond design and ASID. She was awarded the 2005 Business Woman of the Year by the Business Advisory Council, has served as a member of the Winner Circle for the Special Olympics for the past eight years, has been on the Advisory Committee for the School of Interior Design at Woodbury University and Westwood College, and was presented with a Distinguished Service Award from the City of Beverly Hills for the historical preservation of Greystone Mansion.

Sonet is a partner in the New York law firm of Levy, Sonet & Siegel, LLP. In addition to serving as the legal counsel to ASID, his firm represents numerous interior designers, industry sources, product designers, architects and fashion designers. Sonet previously was a faculty member at the New York School of Interior Design, where he taught business and legal practices. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Northwestern University in Chicago, and his juris doctorate from the Boston University School of Law.

Jerrold M. Sonet, Esq., Hon. FASID
Emeritus Trustees
(Deceased)

Jerrold M. Sonet, a graduate of Cornell University and the Harvard Law School, has been regularly engaged in the practice of law for over fifty years.
 For a large part of his legal career, Mr. Sonet specialized in representing various aspects of the design industry, inclusive of practicing interior designers, practicing product designers, practicing fashion designers, and the various firms that produce furniture, fabric, accessories and other merchandise utilized by interior designers in their regular practice, or who utilize the services of product designers in the design and creation of their products.
 Mr. Sonet was the legal architect for the consolidation which joined the American Institute of Designers and the National Society of Interior Designers into one organization, which has been known since 1975 as the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID).  Mr. Sonet served as General Counsel for ASID until 1997, at which point his law partner, Alan M. Siegel, succeeded him in such position.
 Prior thereto, Mr. Sonet served on the committees of the professional organizations which created NCIDQ and FIDER, and he was the draftsman of the original Certificate of Incorporation of NCIDQ as well as FIDER's original Indenture of Trust.
 By reason of his long representation of the late Angelo Donghia, who was successfully engaged in all aspects of the design business, Mr. Sonet was selected by Mr. Donghia to operate the Foundation created by Mr. Donghia for the benefit of interior design education.  The Foundation, which became active in 2001, has made substantial grants to various interior design schools, to design organizations, inclusive of the ASID Education Foundation, and FIDER, now known as the Council for Interior Design Accreditation, and to winners of a competitive national scholarship program for interior design students which the Foundation conducts on an annual basis.
 Mr. Sonet is an honorary Fellow of ASID, and has received major recognition for his work from many entities.