2014 Architectural Portfolio Jury: Ruiz, Sorensen, Frazier and Keener.
2014 Architectural Portfolio Jury: Ruiz, Sorensen, Frazier and Keener.
2014 Architectural Portfolio Jury: Ruiz, Sorensen, Frazier and Keener.
2014 Architectural Portfolio Jury: Ruiz, Sorensen, Frazier and Keener.
2014 Architectural Portfolio Jury: Ruiz, Sorensen, Frazier and Keener.

Meet the 2014 Architectural Portfolo jury

Nov. 1, 2014
Jurors met to judge this year's Architectural Portfolio competition.

Art Frazier

Director of Facilities Management & Services • Spelman College, Atlanta

Art has a bachelor’s degree in the design of the environment and a master’s in architecture, both from the University of Pennsylvania, and is a registered architect with 25 years of architectural experience prior to joining Spelman College.

As director of Spelman’s facilities management & services department, Art oversees a 39-acre campus and manages 60 employees. He is responsible for all of Spelman’s non-curricular sustainability initiatives and serves as co-chair of the Sustainable Spelman Committee.

Art also serves as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the University Community Development Corporation, as president of, the Georgia Association of Physical Plant Administrators (GAPPA) and on the Sustainable Atlanta Advisory Board. He serves on the Program Design Committee for United Negro College Fund Initiative for Building Green at Minority Serving Institutions and the Second Nature Kresge Fellowship Selection Committee. As a member of U.S. Green Building Council, he assisted the Center for Green Schools in developing their “Roadmap to a Green Campus” and recently participated as an esteemed guest of the center’s strategic advisory board.

Kimberly A. Keener, CEFM, LEED Green Associate

Manager of Facilities and Community Education • Robbinsville (N.J.) Board of Education

Kimberly is in her 10th year with the Robbinsville Public School District in New Jersey. She currently oversees facilities comprised of 3,000 students, 350 staff members, 500,000 square feet of interior space, and 50 acres of athletic fields and grounds. The district is in three final phases of simultaneous renovation and new construction projects, inclusive of a $4 million ESIP with Honeywell, and $4 million with Paul Otto Building Group, and $15 million with Lighton Industries for a LEED certified building. The district’s 15-year architect of record is Spiezle Architecture Group, Inc.

Kimberly holds undergraduate degrees from Middlesex County College and Trenton State College. She received her Master of Arts in teaching from New Jersey City University and her post master in educational leadership from The College of New Jersey. She earned her Certified Educational Facilities Manager certificate from Rutgers University and the New Jersey Department of Education. She is an instructor for the CEFM Program through the Rutgers Center for Continuing Education and Governmental Services. Kimberly is active in the New Jersey School Buildings and Grounds Association, serving as state treasurer, and as president of her local Mercer County Chapter, and serves as the NJ State Representative to the National School Plant Manager’s Association. She is a member of NJASBO, NJADP, and the local OEM team.

Karina Ruiz, AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Associate Principal • Dull Olson Weekes-IBI Group Architects, Portland, Ore.

An associate principal at Dull Olson Weekes-IBI Group Architects, Karina serves as the education sector lead for the firm’s global practice, IBI Learning+. She is committed to the idea that buildings can have a positive impact on society and continues to pursue this goal with relentless passion. She has more than 19 years of experience in the design and construction of educational facilities and believes fervently in the importance of this work to shape the future of this world. With several LEED registered and certified projects to her credit, she also brings a deep knowledge of sustainable design that extends beyond environmental consciousness to include issues of social justice and community building. Karina has managed over $500 million of public, educational architectural projects that have earned numerous local, regional and national design awards.

Karina also serves on the board of the American Institute of Architects’ Portland Chapter and is the president of the Council of Educational Facility Planners’ International Chapter in Portland, Ore.

Dina Sorensen March, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP BD&C

Project Designer/Design Researcher • VMDO Architects, Charlottesville, Va.

Dina Sorensen is a project designer and design researcher at VMDO Architects, a Charlottesville, Va., firm dedicated to promoting health and wellbeing through the design of sustainable educational environments. Trained at Parsons School of Design, NYC/Paris, and the University of Virginia, Dina has cultivated a background in art, design, architecture, art theory/ criticism, and film that underscores her belief in the necessity of spaces and places that nourish creativity, imagination, and discovery.

Dina brings her design expertise to collaborative processes and research investigations to foster an architectural and systems agenda for sustainable learning at the convergence of human health, energy systems and ecological dependencies. Recent featured talks in collaboration with public health researchers, Dr. Huang and Dr. Trowbridge, include the American Institute for Architects National Convention held in Chicago and the Washington Post Forum Health Beyond Healthcare in Washington DC, both of which took place this summer. Recent publications include the Healthy Eating Design Guidelines for School Architecture [CDC, Preventing Chronic Disease 10:120084, 2013].

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