KPF Designer and recent Environmental Performance (EP) Fellow Parachi Masown will participate on a panel of Penn State alumni discussing sustainability careers in arts and architecture.
As part of Penn State’s Sustainability Career Webinar Series, Parachi will join Nashormeh N.R. Lindo, artist and educator, and Amy Pastor, Vice President of Sustainability at EXP, to discuss building a career at the intersection of sustainability and design. The panel will cover how each speaker incorporates sustainability principles into their work, how their education shaped their path, and practical advice for students looking to pursue similar work tackling the environmental challenges of our time.
Parachi’s perspective draws directly from her work at KPF, where she pairs her design practice with her role in the firm’s EP Fellowship—a program that embeds designers within KPF’s in-house sustainability team, KPFep, for up to six months. Fellows like Parachi complete the program equipped to function as Sustainability Leads on project teams, carrying their expertise forward into the design process. Parachi will discuss how sustainability goals shape a designer’s day-to-day work, and how that expertise can open doors for architects early in their careers.
