Nicole Hollant-Denis, AIA, NOMA, NCARB is the owner of Aaris Design Architects. For the past 20 years, she and her team have worked all over NYC’s five boroughs. . Ever since she was little, Nicole wanted to be an artist. Eventually, she decided to commit her artistic skills to a more practical career field, was accepted into Cornell’s architecture program, and never looked back.

Elise Robinson, AIA is Principal Designer at DLR Group/BGA, where her main sector of focus is K-12 projects. As a part of Bowie Gridley Architects (BGA, now part of DLR Group) for over 20 years, she’s had the opportunity to work on all aspects of designs for numerous independent schools.

With a flair for innovation, Kali Bowers is the Associate Director of Creative Innovation at JLL. In short, her job description is to visualize the highest potential for her assigned projects, and then bring those ideas to life. Kali has found that making connections and forging your own path is essential to succeed in the Real Estate industry.

Laura Holthus currently serves as the Project Manager for Ricondo’s Advanced Planning on-call services for the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Technical services have included project needs mapping with the Port of Seattle, ground transportation access planning, garage utilization and feasibility analyses, terminal modeling and expansion studies, Terminal optimization planning and concept development, and more.

Joanna Schmickel, FAIA is Principal at Cox Graae + Spack Architects, an award-winning national firm for Education, Retail, Commercial, Institutional and Residential projects. Being one of the only women at her company at first, she has demonstrated that her experience and passion surpass more than her gender. Even in her architecture school days at Syracuse University, she saw Architecture as a “man’s job.”

Yoko Yarita, AIA is the co-founder of ROKK Architecture. She has practiced Base Building, Interior Architecture for new construction and Adaptive Reuse/Renovations for two decades. Growing up in Tokyo, Japan, Yoko always had an affinity for art and math, which inspired her interest in architecture from a young age.

Celebrating our very own, Katherine Arboleda, as a #WomaninArchViz. Katherine is a tech-savvy, hard-working, and creative Project Manager commonly known as the go-to person for the Illustrate My Design team.