Thank you, Amanda!

As February approaches, we are soon to say goodbye to Amanda Sturgeon, who is stepping down as CEO after nearly 10 years with ILFI. With 650 Living Building projects in 23 countries, two thriving international affiliates, 27 affordable housing projects, and hundreds of Declare labels, Amanda has guided the Institute to a place where the organization is poised to scale. We’ve put together photos of Amanda through her years at ILFI to remember the great work she has done as our CEO. Thank you for your service and the work you’ve done for a living future, Amanda!

Groundswell 14 | trim tab — *Amanda poses with the team at ILFI then the Cascadia Green Building Council at their year end celebration of green building leadership achievement and innovation December 2014*

Te kura whare 15 | trim tab — *Amanda visits the Tūhoe headquarters Te Kura Whare the first certified Living Building in New Zealand and the 15th worldwide March 2015*

First hill charrette | trim tab — *Then Executive Director of ILFI Amanda facilitates a charrette of more than thirty leaders from around Seattle to construct a vision for Seattles First Hill neighborhood to achieve the* *Living Community Challenge* *Here she is shown working with two former ILFI employees Brad Liljequist and Adam Amrhein creating visions for the neighborhood in five key areas food habitat community mobility and energy* *June 2015*

Greenbuild 2017 | trim tab — *Amanda announces the new* *Stephen R Kellert Biophilic Design Awards* *at Greenbuild 2017 in Boston MA* *November 2017*

Lf18 1 | trim tab — *Published author Amanda Sturgeon signs copies of her book Creating Biophilic Buildings at the 2018 Living Future unConference in Portland OR* *April 2018*

Tedmed | trim tab — *Amanda* *speaks at TEDMED 2018* *the independent health and medicine edition of the world famous TED conference on the health effects of biophilic design and how to bring nature back into our lives November 2018*

London collab | trim tab — *After speaking at Greenbuild Europe about Zero Carbon Buildings with the World GBC Amanda stops by London to meet with a budding LBC project and have lunch with our* *London Collaborative* *March 2019*

Lf19 2 | trim tab — *Amanda happily poses with her amazingly talented humble staff at the 2019 Living Future unConference in Seattle WA* *May 2019*

Midtown 2 | trim tab — *Amanda tours Midtown International School which is planning a campus development under the* *Living Building Challenge* *and talks to students about Biophilic Design and the challenges of being a female leader* *Fall 2019*

Molly Freed Policy Manager Amanda and Ally Stoneham Associate Director of Operations attend the annual Power of Women retreat at the Omega Institute in NY Amanda last visited nine years ago a month after starting at ILFI to certify the Omega Institute as the first Living Building Fall 2019

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