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Edward Mazria, Founder and CEO
Edward Mazria is an internationally-recognized architect, author, researcher, and educator with a long and distinguished career. His award-winning architecture and planning projects span over a thirty-five year period, each employing a cutting-edge environmental approach to design. He is the author of numerous published works, including the ‘bible’ of solar design, The Passive Solar Energy Book, which is currently in use worldwide.
Most recently, Mr. Mazria has reshaped the national and international dialogue on energy and climate change to incorporate building design and the ‘Building Sector’. He is the founder of Architecture 2030, an innovative and flexible research organization focused on this issue. He developed and issued The 2030 Challenge, a measured and achievable strategy to dramatically reduce global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2030. He speaks nationally and internationally on the subject of architecture, design, energy, and climate change and has taught architecture at several universities including the University of New Mexico, University of Oregon, University of Colorado-Denver, and UCLA.
His numerous awards include AIA Design Awards and the AIA Design Innovation Award, American Planning Association Award, Department of Energy Awards, American Solar Energy Society Pioneer Award, Equinox Award (first recipient), National Conservation Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation, the Hanley Award for Vision and Leadership in Sustainable Housing, and the 2011 Purpose Prize. He is a fellow of the Design Futures Council.
Harmon Lisnow, Board Chairman
Harmon Lisnow has extensive experience in business, non-profit work, crisis and campaign management and is an excellent resource for strategic thinking and planning. Mr. Lisnow served in the Peace Corps in Liberia and has maintained an interest in this West African nation. Working with the ALF-CIO and the United Steelworkers (USW) he has trained Liberian labor leadership. In addition to this he has worked to establish both for-profit and a non-profit corporations in Liberia to create models of successful small business and a trained workforce of entrepreneurs.
These Liberian models were based on Mr. Lisnow's work with the Mexican American community in Texas. As Executive Director of the Mexican American Council for Economic Progress (MACEP) and the Mexican American Development Corporation (MADCO) he was tasked with providing educational, training and business opportunities for Mexican Americans. While in Texas, Mr. Lisnow also served as the Chief Administrator for two major state agencies: the State Comptroller and the State Attorney General, and was the Executive Director of Texas Veteran's Land Board.
For 10 years Mr. Lisnow served as the Executive Director of the Institute for Career Development (ICD), a non-profit education, training and research corporation serving the Steelworkers (USW) and the steel, tire and rubber industries. ICD worked with 13 corporations and the USW, with approximately 70 training centers throughout the United States.
Ben Cardinale, Board Member
Ben Cardinale’s wealth of business experience makes him a valuable addition to our board. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1965 majoring in accounting. He went on to become a Certified Public Accountant and established his own accounting practice specializing in the home construction field. He became so enamored with the building industry that he sold his CPA practice and started his own general contracting firm, building spec homes at first which later grew into remodeling for the general public. After a successful career in the building industry he received an offer he couldn’t refuse. He put down his hammer to become a TV writer. Now that is a career change! He had a wonderful 20 year writing career working for Paramount Studios and Dreamworks on such acclaimed shows as Family Ties, Brooklyn Bridge, and Champs. Currently Ben is still writing focusing on movies and commercials that deal with the serious subject of cleaning up the environment.
Leonor Missrie, Board Member
Leonor Missrie, born in Mexico, is an architect and internationally acclaimed artist living and working in Mexico City. Early in her career she worked for architectural firms before striking out on her own. She has worked primarily on residential and commercial building design in Mexico City. She has also collaborated with architects on various projects, her latest being coordinating the design and construction of the Capella Ixtapa hotel at Ixtapa, Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
Ms. Missrie founded and directed etching workshops in Mexico and has supported other artists by teaching etching, painting and drawing. She, has participated in many individual and collective exhibitions both nationally and internationally and her artworks have won numerous awards, been published in books, graced book covers and hang in museums. Presently, Ms. Missrie is focusing her architectural work on the built environment, energy and climate change, and her artwork on sculpture.
Lynette Montoya, Board Member
Lynette Montoya has been actively involved in the building and business sectors on the local and national levels for more than 20 years. Ms. Montoya began her career as Marketing Director for an architectural firm. She was the founder of the Santa Fe Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and served as its Executive Director. She has also held the position of Director of Economic Development for the City of Santa Fe and was instrumental in the city’s adoption of the 2030 Challenge. Working with HUD, Ms. Montoya facilitated a partnership among HUD, the Enterprise Foundation, Rural Community Assistance Corporation and The Housing Assistance Council to provide affordable housing services to the citizens of New Mexico. As President of Global Hotel for 12 years, Ms. Montoya worked with clients throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Her volunteer work includes co-chairmanship of the Buckaroo Ball,which raises and distributes funds to non-profits serving Santa Fe’s youth.
Peter Schneider, Board Member
As a highly successful producer and screenplay writer, Peter Schneider brings extensive business and marketing knowledge and insight about how to tell Architecture 2030's story. Mr. Schneider has worked with Dreamworks, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Brothers as a producer and screenwriter for over 23 years, but, his resume is far more diverse. Peter has served in the Peace Corps in Nigeria and as a social worker for the New York City Department of Welfare. He has taught biology and chemistry at San Quentin Prison, practiced veterinary medicine for over 28 years and enjoys donating time to working with children as a Little League Baseball and Basketball coach.
