Jurors

2025 SEGD Juror

Amy Rees

Partner/Studio Director | Exit Design

As Partner/Studio Director at Exit Design, Amy Rees is a perceptive designer and problem solver who finds creativity in constraints to design memorable experiences. Amy leads the Exit team in the delivery of their work and builds long lasting relationships with her clients.

With over two decades working across the experience design industry for diverse groups of clients, Amy (she/her) knows all the rules — and, more importantly, when to break them. She’s led multi-disciplinary teams designing large-scale, high-profile projects like the transformative UCSC Innovation Plaza, Memorial Sloan Kettering’s David H. Koch Cancer Center, the UCSF Helen Diller Hospital, the Cobbs Creek golf course, and the system-wide redesign of Philadelphia Parks and Recreation signage. Across all her projects at Exit Design, Amy is known for delivering exceptional results while building lasting relationships.

Amy has been an active member of SEGD for more than 20 years, taking essential leadership roles, including co-chair of the Philadelphia Chapter, a member of the Academic Task Force, leads the Wayfinding and Experiential Graphic Design Professional Practice Group and in 2025 she joined SEGD’s Board of Directors. She is also a member of SCUP and she sat on the Advisory Council of the Business Women in Leadership Program at Florida International University. Amy is passionate about educating the next generation of designers. She has taught at Philadelphia University and the University of the Arts, as well as Drexel University, where she shares experience and expertise as an adjunct faculty member.

Amy received her BS in Graphic Design from Drexel University.

2025 IIDA Juror

Catherine Heath

Managing Principal | Perkins & Will

Catherine Heath is a Managing Principal at Perkins & Will, based in Washington, DC. She is also the Northeast Regional Director of the Workplace practice which includes New York, Boston and Philadelphia.

Catherine is recognized as a design leader by her industry peers, elected to the International Interior Design Association’s College of Fellows in 2021. Her design career has included a leadership role on some of the most notable corporate headquarters, law firm and government agency projects in the US and abroad.

Catherine has more than two decades of experience leading complex headquarters projects as large as 4 million square ft. Her projects have won more than thirty design awards and been published in numerous design and business periodicals. She was featured in the book ‘Women in Design’ published by Interior Design Magazine. Her work was also included in the exhibit ‘Built by Women’ in the Smithsonian National Building Museum.

She has established herself as an international leader in corporate and law firm workplace strategy and excels at helping clients navigate critical strategic decisions about the use of their office space. Her deep knowledge of tenant requirements makes her an invaluable collaborator on building repositioning projects. She has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the ABA Journal and has been published in Legal Management. She is a current Trustee on the University of Virginia School of Architecture Foundation Board, and President of CREW DC, one of CREW Network’s largest chapters.

Previously, Catherine was the founder and CEO of HYL Architecture, with offices in Washington, DC and New York City, which was acquired by Perkins&Will in 2024. Her other prior roles have included Senior Principal and Management Board at HOK and Associate Director at SOM. Catherine holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia.

2025 AIA Juror

Grace Kim

Founder | Schemata Workshop

Grace H. Kim, FAIA is an architect and co-founding principal of Schemata Workshop, a Seattle-based architectural practice with a keen focus on community, social equity and sustainability. Her firm works on projects that shape Seattle and guide regional growth. Her co-design process engages not only her client and consultants, but also the surrounding community stakeholders. She has led innovative projects that are equitable transit-oriented developments (eTOD) and affordable housing which have incorporated volumetric modular construction, urban agriculture, and the single stair code provision.

Grace is also the founder of Capitol Hill Urban Cohousing, a collaborative residential community which includes her street level office and a rooftop urban farm.  She walks the talk of sustainability – leaving a small ecological footprint while incorporating holistic ideals of social and economic resilience into her daily life.  She is an internationally recognized expert in cohousing – her TED talk on cohousing as an antidote for isolation has attracted over 3M views.

Grace served for eight years on the Seattle Planning Commission and nine years on the Board of Directors for the Housing Development Consortium of Seatle and King County. Grace currently serves as the co-chair of the Puget Sound Regional Council TOD Committee. She provides strategic leadership at all levels related to city planning, affordable housing, and community-led design.

2025 AICP Juror

Erika Fiola

Associate | Via Partnership

Erika Fiola has been a dynamic force in the fields of community development and creative placemaking with over 15 years of experience throughout the Midwest, including five years in Cincinnati. Blending a background in urban planning with a deep love for the arts, Erika works at the intersection of design, culture, and community. From reimagining downtown districts to crafting community-driven plans to implementing public art projects, Erika’s work is rooted in collaboration and innovation. Erika has a Master’s in Urban Planning and Real Estate Development from Saint Louis University and is a certified planner with the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).

2025 Local Juror

Lann Field

Chief Operating Officer | Iterum Consulting

Lann Field is the Chief Operating Officer of Iterum Consulting Group, a firm specializing in neighborhood revitalization strategies and development initiatives. Iterum focuses on the financing and implementation of complex, transformative urban projects that drive lasting change in communities.

Before joining Iterum in 2025, Lann spent 16 years at 3CDC, where she led urban real estate projects in Over-the-Rhine and Downtown Cincinnati totaling more than $670 million in development. From 2015 to 2024, she served as Vice President of Development, overseeing a wide range of civic and mixed-use projects, mixed-income housing, historic revitalization, adaptive reuse, and infill development.

Lann brings deep expertise in project management, design, development, and financing, with a proven ability to navigate the complexities required to bring ambitious projects to life.

She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Community Planning from the University of Cincinnati. Her early career included work at architecture firms in Atlanta, Knoxville, Chicago, and New York.

Lann currently serves on the Board of Commissioners for the Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority and is the former Board Chair of the Over-the-Rhine Chamber of Commerce. She is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati, where she teaches and advises students in the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP).