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Valerie Sherry is pursuing a Masters degree in Architecture at the University of Maryland. She has experience as a designer, architect, builder, project manager, building scientist (energy modeler), and entrepreneur in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) Industry. She is a CPHC (Certified Passive House Consultant), LEED AP and International Living Futures Institute member.

Valerie has a technical background in high performance building skins, and systems design. Now that she is in design school, she works in the Fabrication Lab and is learning the power of design thinking as both a valuable innovation process as well as a tool to communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences. She is eager to apply her design tools, technology and training towards the creation of meaningful spaces around campus in order to promote information sharing, innovation and entrepreneurship.

Valerie hopes to empower colleagues at the University of Maryland to initiate change and implement ideas. She recently founded the interdisciplinary campus organization, Design Impact Lab, at the University of Maryland. She is passionate about bridging seemingly disparate groups and connecting people with diverse expertise in order to enhance communication and promote cross-fertilization between fields. Her recent appointment to the curriculum committee for the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture will be a platform to discuss and help implement methods for improving design education.

Valerie played Division I Lacrosse as an undergraduate at Brown University and graduated in 2009 with a BA in Architectural Studies. She was a member of the Women’s Leadership Council and Women’s Launch Pad mentorship program geared towards connecting student and mentor interests. As a student at Brown, she facilitated a campaign to build smokeless stoves in the Dominican Republic to reduce respiratory illness and promote job creation in five rural villages. Her experience in the Dominican Republic led her to further investigate links between design, public health, engineering, entrepreneurship and construction methods.

She enjoys drinking coffee at all times as it is positively central to sustained happiness. In her spare time, she enjoys outdoor sports and traveling.



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