Anisa Heming is director of the Center for Green Schools at USGBC and one of the nation’s foremost experts on green schools. As director of the Center, Anisa provides strategic direction to USGBC’s work in schools and coordinates an organization-wide team to promote environmental sustainability, health and wellness, and environmental and sustainability literacy in school systems around the world. x000D x000D She began her work with USGBC in New Orleans, hired to assist with rebuilding the schools after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. After her time in New Orleans, she moved to Washington, DC and began the Green Schools Fellowship Program at the Center for Green Schools, placing and training sustainability directors in school districts and beginning the nation's first network of school district sustainability staff, which continues today. Anisa holds a B.S. in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.Arch. from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Seema Bhangar serves as Principal, Healthy Buildings and Communities, for Innovation and Research at the U.S. Green Building Council. She is a visiting scholar at U.C. Bekeley’s College of Environmental Design Research. She specializes in indoor air quality, environmental health, and environmental sensing in buildings. She was previously a sustainability program manager at the commercial real estate firm WeWork, and a product manager at an environmental sensing technology startup, Aclima. She serves on the board of an independent nonprofit, the Indoor Air Institute. She has served on expert and advisory committees including for ASHRAE, the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, the International WELL Building Institute, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and the U.S. General Services Administration. Seema was a postdoctoral research fellow at U.C. Berkeley, where she also completed a Ph.D. in environmental engineering and an M.S. in public health. She holds a B.A.S. from Stanford University.

Adele Houghton, FAIA, DrPH, LEED AP, is President of Biositu, LLC. She works at the intersection of buildings, public health, and climate change. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows and received a Doctor of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where she also teaches. Her book Architectural Epidemiology (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), co-authored with Professor Carlos Castillo-Salgado, proposes a novel method for building design and real estate development: combining neighborhood-scale environmental health data with participatory community engagement to maximize a building’s positive ripple effect on community and planetary health.

Riwayat Katia is an MS student in Building Science, Technology, and Sustainability program at UC Berkeley and a researcher at the Center for the Built Environment. She works on improving thermal comfort and indoor environmental quality through energy-efficient HVAC systems. She holds a BS in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and she has held research appointments at the Georgia Tech High Performance Building Lab. Her prior research experience lies in daylighting, visual comfort, and urban building energy modelling in low-income communities. Riwayat interned with the Innovation & Research team at USGBC where she analyzed LEED data to support USGBC's thought leadership and technical standards development on Indoor Air Quality testing and monitoring. She has also previously interned as a Building Performance Analyst at SOM, Page Southerland Page, and EYP, Inc. In these roles she developed tools to track embodied and operational carbon policies across countries and assisted her team with solar radiation, embodied carbon, energy use intensity, and outdoor thermal comfort analyses.