June Williamson RA, ASSOC. AIA, LEED AP is Director of Graduate Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York/CUNY, where she has been on the full-time faculty since 2008. She is an international expert on the suburban retrofitting, a.k.a. the uses of good urban design in the redevelopment, rehabilitation and regreening of obsolete suburban built form. She is coauthor with Ellen Dunham-Jones of the 2021 Great Places Book Award-winning Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges (Wiley), a long-awaited sequel to the first book in the series, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs. She also wrote Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb (Island Press), contextualizing and documenting an urban design ideas competition for Long Island and New York.

Victor Body-Lawson, FAIA, is principal of Body Lawson Associates Architects and Planners (BLA), an acclaimed architecture, interiors and urban design practice founded in 1993 and operating in the United States and globally. His international portfolio includes works in multifamily housing, religious and commercial buildings, historic preservation, interior design, and recreational and health facilities. A noted leader in responsive, collaborative community solutions with an emerging design signature, Body-Lawson is recognized for his ability to empower people in under-resourced communities through their public spaces and buildings. He is also an accomplished artist and visiting critic at Yale and Columbia. Current projects include the 740-unit affordable mixed-use campus, The Peninsula, Marcus Garvey Village in Harlem, and the acclaimed, recently completed Home Street Residences in The Bronx. From his groundbreaking Erobograph Apartments to his new and promising works in New York, Baltimore and Kumasi, Ghana, Body-Lawson offers insightful perspectives on equitable urban development.

Willy Zambrano, FAIA, LEED AP, established Zambrano Architectural Design in 2005, a small design studio, where he began focusing on multi-disciplinary design services and a diverse range of building design typologies embodying resiliency and sustainability to enhance the community’s fabric, provide comfort and wellness to its end users. His award-winning studio enabled him to pursue international projects such as the Lima 2019 Pan American Games (COPAL). Willy has been a long-standing, active AIA member, participating and leading at the local, state and national levels to improve the quality for his fellow architects, elevate the role of the AIA and helping change the face of the next generation of professionals. Willy Zambrano, FAIA, will be the AIANYS 2023 President- Elect.

Jim Dolan, P.E., CEM, BCXP, LEED AP is the Principal in Charge of Energy Engineering Services for OLA Consulting Engineers. In this role, he oversees all energy audits, energy modeling, energy retrofits, high performance design, and commissioning projects for the firm. Mr. Dolan is considered an expert on high performance buildings and sustainable design, speaking frequently to professional and academic organizations throughout the region, including speaking engagements such as the ASHRAE National Meeting in New York, the New York Society of Professional Engineers Annual Conference, and at the Build Boston Conference for the Boston Society of Architects/AIA.