She Leads 2026

L. Irene Compadre, PLA ASLA is the Founding Principal & Design Director of Arbolope Studio, an award-winning Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Public Art practice based in St. Louis, MO and Lyon, France. As an experimental firm that prioritizes ecological resilience and social equity, Arbolope’s civic-centered work ranges from intimate public parks to large-scale campus transformations. Beyond the studio, […]

 Juan William Chávez (he/him), a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, is an interdisciplinary artist of Indigenous Latinx and Irish descent. His work operates at the intersection of ecology, social practice, and decolonial environmental systems. Chávez’s creative practice includes social practice art, public art, installation, sound, agriculture, and zines. He focuses on long-term projects that explore land stewardship, […]

Bei Hu is a multidisciplinary designer, educator, and multimedia artist. She is an Assistant Professor of Design at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches interaction design. She previously taught at the Kansas City Art Institute as a Visiting Assistant Professor and at the […]

Linda C. Samuels is Professor and Chair of urban design at the Sam Fox School at Washington University in St. Louis and the inaugural Director of Sustainable Design and Environmental Justice. Samuels’s research focuses on infrastructural opportunism – leveraging investment in large-scale systems to create more socially and environmentally productive public works. She teaches inter-disciplinary […]