Gioia Connell

Gioia is a design professional whose passion for place-based design has directed her career in architecture, planning, and sustainability consulting. As Built Ecology Consultant at WSP, she works across the portfolio, master planning, and building scales leading strategy, analytics, and sustainable design and certifications for public and private clients. Her current work builds on prior consulting and in-house experience in architecture at Roche Dinkeloo and planning at Vita Nuova, and her own consulting practice GMCC. She has worked with communities, cities, and startups from across the globe on climate resilient and nature-based solutions, from New York to California and Ecuador to Sweden with partners from Yale to the United Nations.