As a Sustainability Director at Steven Winter Associates, Lauren focuses on high performance building technologies, green building certifications, and human health in buildings. She provides the know-how in performance testing, contractor training, healthy building materials, energy code compliance, and incentive opportunities. In addition to her daily project oversight, Lauren is on the IWBI Health Equity Advisory Committee, her internal DEI focus group committee, and regularly conducts trainings and presentations for audiences of designers, builders, and building owners. Topics include electrification, healthy buildings, building science best practices, health equity, healthy materials and other emerging trends in sustainability. Melissa Abramson, REI, leads the creation of local brand engagement strategy through collaboration with local leaders to build awareness and engagement, by which differentiating REI and increasing brand impact through storytelling, media relations, strategic non-profit relationships, advocacy, local social, partnerships, events and more. She is also the Founder and Chair of the New York Outdoor Recreation Coalition. Bill Walsh is the Founder of the Healthy Building Network (HBN). Since 2000 HBN has been defining the leading edge of healthy building practices that increase transparency in the building products industry, reduce human exposures to chemicals in building materials, and create market incentives for healthier innovations in manufacturing. Bill and HBN have been awarded the Design for Humanity Award by the American Society of Interior Designers (2019) and US Green Building Council’s Leadership In Advocacy Award (2012). Chris Bland, Mt. Sinai, Born in Paterson, NJ, Christopher is a Program Coordinator at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He has earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from The State University of New York at Geneseo and a MPH in epidemiology from the University of Georgia. While at the University of Georgia, Christopher taught courses on Global Health, served as the president of the Public Health Association and became a member of the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health. Christopher’s research interest includes the intersections of mental health and HIV/AIDS, the physiological/psychological effects of volatile compounds in the air of urban housing and environmental justice. Christopher has been a consultant to prominent health organizations such as GILEAD Sciences, PEPFAR, Ryan White, Georgia Department of Public Health, and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health. Christopher’s current work at Sinai includes building and managing a virtual home visit program for pediatric asthma patients. Now residing in Manhattan, Christopher’s future goals are to implement grass-roots initiatives throughout NYC that task shift interventions to respected community leaders and health workers to teach health education in their community and include integrative wellness for underserved populations.