CannonDesign
CannonDesign is a practice at the nexus of strategy, experience, architecture, interior design, engineering and social impact. We dream up, create and bring to life solutions that enhance human vitality, further equity, strengthen communities and safeguard our planet all at once. We’ve been recognized multiple times by Fast Company as one of the most innovative design firms in the world.
With 1,500+ teammates across 21 offices, we forge deep partnerships with clients across all industries, empowering them to reach greater heights. At the heart of our work lies our ethos, Living-Centered Design – a bold commitment to using our talents to not only enhance the world but to fundamentally reshape it for the better. | 
Margi Kaminski, RID, ASID, IIDA, NCIDQ, EDAC, CLGB
Principal, Health Interiors Practice Leader, CannonDesign
As Principal & Health Interiors Practice Leader, Margi is passionate about making the connection between design and well-being, creating spaces that inspire and uplift the human spirit. Her approach considers the human experience and how design impacts the health and well-being of people that live, work and heal in the spaces she designs. She has led a wide range of notable projects for many of the healthcare industry’s leading systems and senior living providers. She is an award-winning designer with a holistic approach to design that ensures all aspects of a project embody the character of her client's brand and mission, while achieving robust human & environmental health.
In addition to her leadership role at CannonDesign, Margi’s voice is also heard on the ASID National Board of Directors as a Director-at-Large and is also on the Editorial Advisory Board of Healthcare Design.
Elizabeth Von Lehe, ASID, NCIDQ
Principal and Senior Design Leader, CannonDesign
Elizabeth Von Lehe currently serves as Principal and Senior Design Leader at CannonDesign, based in New York and leading teams and projects across the country and internationally. An award-winning design leader with professional experience across multiple industries, Elizabeth champions a holistic approach to design, embracing not only the built form, but branding, curation and the development of user experience from every angle. An active member of ASID, she is serving as the 2025 chair of the national board of directors, and has also supported student mentorship initiatives and served on a variety volunteer committees. As part of her focus on industry mentorship, Elizabeth also serves as a regular graduate mentor and panelist for her alma mater, Columbia University, and is an adjunct professor for a special studio course with Institut Paul Bocuse in Paris and Lyon, France.
CORGAN
Corgan is a leading architecture and design firm with a human-centered approach, deep technical expertise, and a reputation for great service to our clients, our people, and our communities. Founded in 1938, Corgan is consistently ranked as one of the top architectural design firms in the United States. We listen to our clients and transform their insights into structures and spaces that inspire, inform, and innovate.
Corgan’s strengths in research, user experience, and design allow us to foresee emerging changes and provide solutions that minimize risk, create flexibility, and maximize longevity. We elevate the process, the space for the user, and the impact of the design on our clients’ businesses. |
BRENT CAPRON, ASID, IIDA, AIA, LEED AP, ANFA
Studio Design Director, Associate Principal – Interiors, Corgan
Nationally recognized as an award-winning designer, Brent Capron’s inspirational designs have transformed millions of square feet of interior space in Manhattan, across the U.S., and around the world. Throughout a career spanning more than three decades, Brent has focused on designing meaningful spaces that enhance well-being, performance, and satisfaction, inspiring emotional connection through empathetic and human-centric design. “I call it ‘Choreographing Canvases for Chaos,’” he says. “A space becomes activated by its inhabitants, and while we have little control over how others behave, we can provide them a roadmap of experiences to support a narrative of prospective outcomes which meet our clients’ goals and aspirations.”
With an innate ability for strategic thinking and comprehending client needs, Brent champions experiential design, with a focus on the workplace as well as the hospitality, healthcare, transportation, and science and technology sectors. With a deep knowledge of working with international clients, Brent brings a high level of expertise to support Corgan’s global reach. “Corgan has the track record and foresight to advance innovative and sustainable design solutions — I hope to add value to the design discourse in the industry while continuing Corgan’s momentum as a worldwide tour de force in architect and design.”
His extraordinary portfolio of work has been featured in Interior Design, Metropolis, NY Times, CNBC, Contract Magazine, NBC, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Work Design Magazine. Passionate about advancing the field of design and architecture through education, research, and advocacy, Brent is an accomplished author, mentor, and juror for student competitions. He also created and chairs the John P Eberhard Student Design Competition for the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA), an organization that unites the fields of neuroscience and architecture.
GARRY WALLING, AIA
Principal, Interiors Studio Design Director, Corgan
Growing up, Garry loved to draw and quickly realized that architecture and interior design would allow him to do that and build a life in the process. “It is the only career I ever seriously thought would be fulfilling,” Garry says. For 25 years, he’s been combining his passion and skills to develop groundbreaking design solutions for clients — enjoying every step of the process. “I love it all,” he says.
Garry’s work is driven by the potential to bring about positive change and the desire to start with the unknown, and through collaboration and visualization, ultimately finish a space.
His portfolio includes the State Farm Hub at CityLine, Uber’s Regional Headquarters, Keurig Dr Pepper Headquarters, and Toyota North American Headquarters. The latter is one of Garry’s proudest accomplishments for its sheer size and scope.
Gensler
Art Gensler founded our firm in 1965 and today we’ve spent half a century committed to thoughtfully informing the ways employees work and organizations operate. Our approach reflects a deep knowledge and understanding of how people use and experience space, creating places that are relevant, memorable, and distinct.
Our success and growth have afforded us extraordinary diversity and unparalleled perspective. We are interior designers, strategists, architects, and creatives. Our size has granted us the opportunity to explore divergence while remaining unified in our core, empowering us to uncover new opportunities and exhaust more options on your behalf. |
Janeallison Ortega, NCIDQ, ASID, IIDA
Interior Designer | Strategist, Gensler
Janeallison Ortega, ASID, IIDA, NCIDQ, is an interior designer specializing in campus environments and community-driven projects with a focus on wellness and student success. Her commitment to trauma-informed design includes presenting a CEU at ASID’s GATHER conference, contributing to a Gensler research initiative, and collaborating with the Trauma‑Informed Design Society on an active research project. An ASID Ones to Watch Scholar, she engages nationally through mentorship, student portfolio reviews, and panel discussions. Janeallison will join the 2026 ASID x10 Collective, contributing to cross‑industry thought leadership shaping design solutions that positively impact lives.
HDR
HDR is an employee-owned design firm specializing in engineering, architecture, environmental, and construction services. HDR is ranked No. 7 among the world’s design firms and we’re the largest healthcare design firm. We’re also proud to be ranked No. 35 on Forbes magazine’s list of America’s Best Large Employers for 2019. Led by the strength of our values and a culture shaped by employee ownership, we network with each other, build on each other’s contributions, and collaborate to make great things possible. HDR believes that the way we work can add meaning and value to the world. That ideas inspire positive change. That coloring outside the lines can illuminate fresh perspectives. And that small details yield important realizations. Above all, we believe that collaboration is the best way forward. So while HDR is most well-known for delivering architecture and engineering services – for adding beauty and structure to communities through high performance buildings and infrastructure – we provide much more than that. We create an unshakable foundation for progress because our multidisciplinary teams also include the firepower of archaeologists, economists, builders, analysts, artists, and scientists. Our 1,715 employees, working in locations around the world, push open the doors to what’s possible each and every day.
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MELISSA MOSELEY, FASID, CID, NCIDQ, LEED AP
Senior Designer, Interiors | Professional Associate, HDR
Melissa is an award‑winning interior designer with extensive experience in commercial design and a deep focus on healthcare environments. Known for her outgoing personality, she is passionate about mentoring students and emerging professionals. A strong advocate for the power of design, Melissa champions a holistic, collaborative process, bringing architects, planners, and interior designers together to achieve optimal outcomes. She believes thoughtful design has a responsibility beyond aesthetics: to protect patients, support caregivers, and comfort loved ones. Through nurturing, human‑centered environments, Melissa strives to create spaces that positively impact health, wellbeing, and the overall care experience.
HGA
HGA is a national interdisciplinary design firm committed to making a positive, lasting impact for our clients and communities through research-based, holistic solutions. We believe that great design requires a sense of curiosity—forming deep insight into our clients, their contexts, and the human condition. We are a collective of more than 1,000 architects, engineers, interior designers, planners, researchers, and strategists. Our practice spans multiple markets, including science and technology, corporate, cultural, education, local and federal government, and healthcare. |
Mari Ansera, CID, ASID, IIDA, NOMA
Associate Vice President and Senior Interior Design Department Leader, HGA
Mari Ansera is an Associate Vice President and Senior Interior Design Lead based in the Minneapolis office of HGA, where she oversees interior design projects for science and technology, workplace, cultural, and healthcare markets. As the Interior Design Department Leader, Mari is dedicated to growing the Minneapolis team by focusing on talent and career development. She believes interior design is envisioning beautiful and functional spaces that bring dignity and equity to the built environment. Many of Mari’s projects have won design awards and she is a frequent presenter and jury member. She was named an ASID Ones to Watch Scholar in recognition for her contributions to the profession to cultivate a diverse design field.
HKS
To those wanting to make an impact with design, HKS is the architect where focused people consistently deliver the extraordinary. We are passionate, knowing that people live, work, play, and inhabit the spaces and places we imagine and envision for our clients. We are responsive, understanding that we are in a service business and the vision is that of our clients – never of ours alone. We are global, creating exceptional spaces across the globe through our connected network of offices and people. We are one, with tremendous talent across a wide spectrum of expertise, believing that the value of talent, experience, and knowledge is multiplied when shared. We are thorough, balancing extraordinary design with technical expertise and construction administration backgrounds for streamlined, on-time, within-budget projects. We are HKS. We create places that enhance the human experience. Each and every day. |
Gracie Andraos, ASID, RID
Interiors Practice Leader, Principal, HKS
A forward-thinking design leader, Gracie transforms ideas and concepts into harmonious workplace environments and experiences. Every aspect of her designs is thoughtfully executed with passion and attention to detail using an interdisciplinary approach. Gracie’s client-driven work ethic and collaborative attitude have propelled over 20 years of success leading teams for notable projects such as Expedia, JPMorgan Chase, and Sterling Bay Developers.
She brings a modern understanding of architecture with an appreciation for a variety of design styles that are client and user-focused, infusing research, sustainability and universal design approaches. The end results are top-performing workplaces that transform organizations and the employees inside them.
Gracie is truly passionate about the next generation of leaders in our industry. Her approach to the design process is one where mentorship can happen anywhere, anytime and for anyone regardless of tenure, expertise or experience level. She fosters an environment and culture of diversity where every voice matters, with transparency and empathy as the foundation to successful team building.
TEYANNA MILES, NCIDQ, LEED AP
Vice President | Studio Design Leader, Interiors | Sr. Interior Designer, HKS
Teyanna Miles is an Interiors Studio Design Leader at HKS. A designer driven by a passion for storytelling through art and design, she collects stories, experiences and inspirations to reimagine them into unique spaces. Teyanna’s creative process is a journey of exploration, breaking down ideas, problem-solving, and weaving them together to craft meaningful interior spaces that people connect in.
HOK
With offices around the globe, HOK designs buildings and spaces that respond to the needs of people and the environment. HOK designers are rooted in technical excellence, driven by imagination and focused on a solitary goal: to deliver solutions that inspire clients and communities. HOK is a collective of future-forward thinkers and designers who are driven to face the critical challenges of our time. We are dedicated to improving people’s lives, serving our clients and healing the planet. Together, we cultivate a culture of design excellence at the confluence of art and science, blending the power of creative expression with a clear sense of purpose. |
ALI KIDWELL, RID, NCIDQ, WELL AP
Senior Project Interior Designer | Associate, HOK
Ali Kidwell is a registered interior designer and WELL Accredited Professional based out of Georgia. Her professional experience spans diverse design domains, encompassing multifamily and student housing, higher education spaces, public assembly points, and corporate environments. Noteworthy is her profound commitment to customizing each project meticulously to address the functional, aesthetic, and budgetary needs of her clients. She maintains the understanding that there is no ‘one size fits all’ in design and enjoys the problem solving aspect of each project . In 2024, she was named an ASID Ones to Watch winner. Ali strives to maintain relationships with local universities to aid in juries, tours, and mentoring the next generation of Interior Designers.
JOURNEY
At ICRAVE (part of Journey), we specialize in designing at the intersection of digital, physical, and operational touchpoints, turning complex challenges into extraordinary results. From reinventing businesses with strategic insight to pioneering food hall design, we’ve built a reputation for innovation and impact. |
David Taglione
Managing Director, JOURNEY
David is a Practice Lead and Managing Director based in New York. Since joining Journey in 2005, he has led perception-shifting, large-scale projects that have redefined industry thinking and elevated the broader Journey practice.
A strategic and creative force across the organization, David partners closely with clients to translate complex brand and business challenges into bold, future-facing spatial solutions. He also leads and mentors a global team of designers, continually advancing the practice at scale.
David has directed landmark projects including the Las Vegas Sphere, Memorial Sloan Kettering’s David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care and Josie Robertson Surgical Center, St. Jude Family Commons, and JPMorgan Chase Sapphire Airport Lounges. His portfolio spans healthcare, aviation, retail, mixed-use, and experiential environments.
Beyond project work, David is a key voice in shaping the future of passenger experience, cancer care environments, retail innovation, and the next evolution of theatrical dining. He has collaborated with leading organizations including MSK, HSS, Johns Hopkins, Hines, Sponda, and JPMorgan Chase, helping institutions and developers strategically position themselves for what’s next.
Known for his ability to move seamlessly across sectors, David brings a cross-disciplinary perspective rooted in the power of cross-pollination, elevating ideas, teams, and outcomes from concept to human scale impact.
Perkins&Will
Perkins&Will is an interdisciplinary, research-based architecture and design firm established in 1935 and founded on the belief that design has the power to transform lives and enhance communities. With an international team of more than 2,400 professionals, Perkins&Will has over 30 studios worldwide, serving clients on nearly every continent. The firm’s focus on healthy, sustainable, socially equitable architecture has made it a global leader in areas as diverse as healthcare, science and technology, education, workplace, interior design, branded environments, mixed-use developments, sports and recreation, urban design, transportation, and landscape architecture. |
Brittany mcnairy, asid, leed ap id+c, well ap
Sr. Technical Coordinator | Senior Associate, Perkins&Will
Brittany is a Senior Technical Coordinator and Senior Associate in Perkins&Will’s Washington, DC office. She has experience with corporate, government, healthcare and education projects and has worked on projects ranging from small interior renovations to campus workplace planning. Brittany brings attention to detail and technical experience to project implementation and delivery. She was named a 2022 Ones to Watch National Scholar by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and a Class of 2022 Top Young Professional by Commercial Observer. In addition, Brittany has a great interest in promoting sustainable design and social responsibility in her work.
DAVID CORdELL, FASID, LEED AP, WELL AP, FITWEL AMBASSADOR
Practice Leader | Associate Principal, Perkins&Will
David Cordell is an associate principal at Perkins&Will. With over 20 years of experience as project designer and technical coordinator on ground-breaking projects, Cordell brings a particular focus on interior environments and their interaction with occupant health and wellness and sustainability. Cordell’s experience includes a variety of corporate, nonprofit, healthcare, and science and technology projects for clients of various sizes. Cordell has worked on numerous LEED projects, several of which earned Platinum certification, including ASID’s headquarters, the first project in the world to also earn Platinum certification under the WELL Building Standard. Cordell speaks regularly on topics related to healthy interior environments, diversity and inclusion and sustainability.
Kate currie, asid, well ap, leed ap id+c
Sr. Interior Designer | Senior Associate, Perkins&Will
As one of the lead interior designers in Perkins&Will’s DC Studio, Kate interfaces with clients daily and thrives on collaboration. She focuses on commercial interiors and their interaction with occupant health and well-being, driven by her commitment to create spaces that make people happier, healthier, and more productive. This passion extends beyond her work, as she is also an elite-level CrossFit Games Masters competitor, with health and wellness as a core part of her personal life. In 2018, ASID named her a Ones to Watch National Scholar. Kate has been actively involved with both local and national ASID initiatives since 2013, serving on several national task forces, chairing committees, and serving as Chapter President of the Washington Metro Chapter.