Contributors

Founder and publisher Julie Gabrielli has been practicing architecture for 20 years. Her company, Gabrielli Design Studio, focuses on sustainable design, as well as strategic sustainability for businesses and institutions, from mission clarification to cultural and physical environments. She also teaches at the University of Maryland School of Architecture, recently as an advisor on an interdisciplinary design team for Maryland’s 2007 Solar Decathlon entry, LEAFHouse. Julie serves on boards of the Community Conferencing Center, the Chesapeake Sustainable Business Alliance, and Experiential Environmental Education Inc, the umbrella for the Green School of Baltimore, a charter K through 5 school. She is here to live a life of passion, excellence, integrity, beauty, creativity, peace, and love.

Alyssa Dennis is an artist interested in architecture as it relates to human function. She holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and is represented by Gallery Imperato. Alyssa has worked on a number of sustainable building projects with SEI: Solar Energy International and in straw bale construction, adobe, earthen plaster and living roofs with Furbish Co. She also restores vintage posters and enjoys drawing and painting, making things rather then buying them, roof top gardens, using a worm compost, magnetic termites, climbing and all things art, music and film. Currently, some of her favorite reading is “Overlay” by Lucy Lippard and “Design Like You Give a Damn”.

Rachel Adams is the Assistant Editor for Change Magazine in Washington DC. She has a masters in poetry from Johns Hopkins and has published an online journal of poetry and short proses called Lines and Stars. Her interests are self-analysis, C.S. Lewis, tea, educational pursuits, poetry experiments, primary colors, and legwear. A personal goal of hers is to to think effectively and write affectingly.

Gordon Griffin received his degree in Architecture in May 2008 from the University of Maryland, College Park. He intends to pursue his interest in the increasingly relevant issues of green and sustainable design. He hopes to see architecture, in both form and function, affect people and their environment in the most positive way. Gordon is also an avid runner, a film enthusiast, and passionate piano player who enjoys writing music. Also fond of writing, he is currently working on his ongoing autobiography.

Joe Stewart is sixty, lives in Better Waverly with his partner, Flash, and a dachshund, Odaat. Joe is a swimmer with a passion for the open water and a photographer who loves shooting nature and urban architecture. He uses his swimming and photography to raise funds for charitable organizations, especially environmental- and community-based ones. He works as an attorney at SDAT. He writes poetry. He is a Governor-appointed member of the Patapsco/Back River Tributary Team and currently serves as Secretary and Hospitality Chair of the Better Waverly Community Organization. Joe drives a small Saturn. He vacations in Provincetown, MA. and he spends time every week with his 92-year-old mother. His philosophy of life is “one day at a time”.