Her presentation will recount the historical context, process and vision driven by community leaders and local citizens in 'democratic design'. Encouraged by a sisterhood of citizens and using the design thinking skills she learned from her time at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and USC

Jennifer Penner is an architect at Studio Southwest Architects in Albuquerque, NM. Her story starts as an intern architect responsible for logging her internship hours across 16 categories in the industry’s Intern Development Program.