Mona is a Registered Architect and Sustainability Consultant with twenty-five years of experience focused on practice, advocacy and education in the built environment. She is an Associate, Senior Sustainability Consultant and chair of DIALOG’s practice-wide Green Practice Roundtable. She brings both big picture thinking and attention to detail to her collaborations with clients and project teams to develop goals and strategies that achieve the best outcomes for projects within budgets and timelines, and that address systems thinking and the urgency of climate change. She is committed to weaving resilience, equity, health, and biodiversity considerations into projects, while remaining focused on lowering carbon emissions through material performance, circular economy, and regenerative design and development.
Mona is Chair, RAIC Committee on Regenerative Environments (CORE), and Co-Chair of the RAIC’s Climate Action Plan (CAP) Steering Committee. Mona has also worked at other major design firms and as a leader with the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) where she oversaw the Institute’s education and training needs as well as Cascadia, their bioregional non-profit. She has served a leadership role on a number of professional committees with the RAIC, CAGBC, USGBC, CMHC, and City of Vancouver as well as a number of community leadership roles. She has lived, worked and studied abroad. She is fluent in French, English and Spanish. Her influence has created a ripple effect through culture and practice, design approach and delivery, and performance on projects locally, regionally and internationally.