Perry Ashenfelter is a licensed architect passionate about creating healthier environments that bridge the relationship between architectural design, sustainability, and the urban experience. Her professional work spans a large range of scales from ground-up institutional work to residential scale, as well as large scale urban resiliency projects. Perry has a diverse background with extensive construction management experience and technical training from her studies in structural engineering. This allows her to value the importance of considering all perspectives in developing comprehensive and creative solutions in a collaborative manner with project teams. Perry’s academic pursuits have focused on how design as a tool to enable adaptation and encourage new approaches for sustainability from the building scale to the public realm. As an active member of the embodied carbon work group within Perkins&Will, she is enthusiastic about increasing carbon literacy and reducing the carbon footprints associated with the built environment.