Peiheng Tsai is the principal of PHT Lighting Design, Inc., an award winning lighting design firm based in New York City. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree, as well as the Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design degree from Columbia University.
BA, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design
Seema Pandya is an accomplished sustainability consultant with over 15 years’ experience working with projects to design and construct sustainable building solutions. She has worked on over 40 sustainable building projects and is a 3rd party USGBC technical LEED Reviewer for over 100 projects. She also was recognized by Green 2.0, as a diverse leader in the environmental field. She is a graduate professor of sustainable design at the NY School of Interior Design and FIT SUNY currently teaching the Introduction to Sustainability in the Built Environment for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as Residential Studio 1, and Constructing, Operating, and Maintaining the Green Interior in the NYSID MPS program. Seema is also an accomplished multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersection between sustainability, art, culture, and the built-environment with an aim of connecting audiences with experiential awareness of natural cycles. Having several public and private art commissions, her work has been featured in Vogue India, Mood of Living, and Fine Woodworking magazines. Seema also served as the Chair of the NY IIDA Sustainability Forum and Board Of Directors and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the non-profit, Brooklyn Raga Massive.
MS, Philadelphia University
BFA, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Luca is an architectural designer at CookFox Architects. He received his MArch from the Istituto Universitario d'Architettura di Venezia.
David Bergman is the founder of DavidBergmanEco, author of Sustainable Design: A Critical Guide and the blog EcoOptimism, which is dedicated to the belief that positive, often symbiotic, solutions exist to our environmental and economic issues. He is on the Executive Board of the NYC 2030 District and the Designers Lighting Forum of New York, and a former president of Furniture New York. He holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton and a BA from Yale.
Reid is a partner at Ageloff & Associates. His career began in Atlanta where he started to put his interest in sustainability into practice. Before settling into the residential sector, he worked on sustainability initiatives for the design and construction of the 2nd Avenue Subway. He holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering degree from Cooper Union and a Master of Architecture degree from Georgia Tech.
Bethany is an associate at CookFox Architects. She received an M.Arch from Columbia University and BFA in Interior Design from Pratt Institute.
Daniel Rogers has over 27 years of experience in the lighting industry as lighting designer, manufacturer, sales rep, teacher, and consultant. He currently serves as ICF Lighting Technical Lead for ENERGY STAR product specification development, providing technical expertise to EPA on lamp and luminaire product design, efficiency metrics, and test procedures. He is Lighting Certified by the National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting Professions (NCQLP), is Chair of the NCQLP Examination Committee, and is a United States Green Building Council LEED Accredited Professional.
BAE, Pennsylvania State University
Andrew is the senior portfolio manager at Vidaris, Inc.