Michele L. Van Hyfte, AIA is an architect, former corporate Sustainability Director, former Executive in charge of urban design and real estate development initiatives and advocacy for a large city's urban core. Strategic thinker, design thinker, and systems thinker. Explorer of intersections of people and the built and natural environments. Designer and facilitator of spaces, processes, and systems that are healthy, beneficial, sustainable, and resilient and produce optimal outcomes and impacts. She earned a Masters of Architecture from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor’s of Science in Architecture from the University of Illinois.