BA, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design

Seema Pandya is an accomplished sustainability consultant with over 15 years’ experience working with projects to design and construct sustainable building solutions. She has worked on over 40 sustainable building projects and is a 3rd party USGBC technical LEED Reviewer for over 100 projects. She also was recognized by Green 2.0, as a diverse leader in the environmental field. She is a graduate professor of sustainable design at the NY School of Interior Design and FIT SUNY currently teaching the Introduction to Sustainability in the Built Environment for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as Residential Studio 1, and Constructing, Operating, and Maintaining the Green Interior in the NYSID MPS program.  Seema is also an accomplished multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersection between sustainability, art, culture, and the built-environment with an aim of connecting audiences with experiential awareness of natural cycles. Having several public and private art commissions, her work has been featured in Vogue India, Mood of Living, and Fine Woodworking magazines. Seema also served as the Chair of the NY IIDA Sustainability Forum and Board Of Directors and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the non-profit, Brooklyn Raga Massive.

Matthew is an architectural historian specializing in 19th and 20th century architecture and urbanism. He has been a member of the research staff of the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission since 1998. Matt holds a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the co-author of the Guide to New York City Landmarks(2003 and 2009) and Ten Architectural Walks in Manhattan (2009). He received a MA from New York University, Institute of Fine Arts and a BA from Vassar College. matthewpostal.com