HISTORIC GREEN: meet our “krewe”

Steering Krewe   |   Planning Krewe   |   Advisory Krewe

Susannah Tuttle | Chair, Steering Krewe
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Sustainability Consultant, Trace Collaborative
Susannah is co-founder of Trace Collaborative, LLC a woman-owned HUB partnership focused on sustainability within the design and construction industry. She received a MDIV degree from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. Her work focuses on three different interrelated levels of human existence: the Educational/Philosophical, Institutional/Physical-Structural, and Communal/Bioregional. Susannah is chair of the Diversity & Outreach Committee on the Board of Directors of the NC Triangle Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

William A. Dupont, AIA | Chair, Education Krewe
San Antonio, Texas: San Antonio Conservation Society Endowed Professor, College of Architecture, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Bill teaches advanced design studio and graduate seminars concerning historic preservation and is responsible for coordination of the historic preservation component of the architecture program. Previously, he served for 11 years as the architect for the National Trust Historic Sites and still works with the organization on various projects, including leadership of a U.S. technical team supporting preservation efforts at Museo Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s home in Cuba. Bill also serves on the boards of US/ ICOMOS (International Council of Monuments and Sites), Villa Finale, Gemini Ink and Historic Green, and is chair of the San Antonio AIA Historic Resources Committee.

Ryan Evans, PE, LEED® AP | Communications
Kansas City, Missouri: Mechanical Engineer and Sustainability Consultant, Henderson Engineers
A co-founder of Historic Green, Ryan is currently 2008-2009 chair of the Emerging Green Builders National Committee. He is an active member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and recently served as the Kansas City Chapter’s Outreach & Advocacy Committee chair. He is also the current chair of the Buildings and Infrastructure Committee of the Kansas City Mayor’s Climate Protection Planning Initiative. Ryan has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Masters in Business from Kansas State University. In addition to volunteering with his wife Summer, he serves as vice-president and president-elect of a non-profit Christian-based organization dedicated to helping widows and orphans in the extremely impoverished villages of Malawi, Africa. He has lectured on sustainability and green design at multiple conferences, schools and other institutions.

Heather Stafford Gay, LEED® AP | Co-Chair, Planning Krewe
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Associate, Kandiyohi Development Partners
Heather is responsible for the sustainability consulting at Kandiyohi and recently took on a part-time position at Dunwoody College of Technology, where she developed and taught the first introduction to sustainability course for the night college. She is currently helping Dunwoody's architectural drafting and construction supervision programs incorporate green building theory and practice into their curriculum, as well as teaching two morning classes on green building. She has a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management and a minor in Urban Studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Heather is the former co-chair and co-founder of the Twin Cities Emerging Green Builders committee. In 2007, she was voted to the board for the USGBC Mississippi Headwaters Chapter and elected secretary of the chapter in 2009.

Jeremy Knoll, LEED® AP | Co-Chair, Planning Krewe
Kansas City, Missouri: Architect, PGAV Architects
Co-founder of the Historic Green event, Jeremy Knoll is currently a Project Architect with PGAV Architects and an elected member of the Emerging Green Builders (EGB) National Committee. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, he helped to establish the Kansas City EGB committee in late 2005. After starting his company’s recycling program, he took the lead on pursuing the integration of sustainability into PGAV’s projects through creation of the PGAV-Vision team. Jeremy was instrumental in organizing Kansas City’s Natural Talent 2007 Design Competition, highlighting the work of university students and individuals with less than five years of experience in the building industry. In addition, he participates in the regional initiative “The Greening of Greensburg, Kansas”.

Dave Macaulay | Web Site, Communications
Kansas City, Missouri: Writer, In-Print Communications
Co-founder of Historic Green, Dave is a freelance writer and the author of Integrated Design: Mithun (Ecotone Publishing, 2008) and the award-winning The Ecological Engineer (Ecotone Publishing, 2005). He has contributed numerous articles on sustainable design/construction to national publications, including AIA COTEnotes and GreenSource Magazine. Along with developing new Web sites for the USGBC Kansas City and St. Louis Chapters, he serves as Executive Editor of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council’s new online magazine, Trim Tab. He has been working with the Holy Cross Neighborhood since April 2006 and lectured extensively about sustainability in New Orleans across the U.S. In addition, he writes the blogs “Help Holy Cross” and “Green ArchiTEXT”.

Curt Rohner, EIT | Logistics, Sustainable Consulting
Kansas City, Missouri: Mechanical Engineer and Sustainability Consultant, Henderson Engineers
Co-founder of the Historic Green event, Curt is an indoor environmental engineer and building energy analyst in Kansas City. A graduate of the University of Kansas, he is the 2008-2009 Emerging Green Builders Committee Chair of the Kansas City Chapter of the United States Green Building Council. Curt is also involved with the regional initiative “The Greening of Greensburg, Kansas”.