Jennifer Barnes AIA LEED AP

Jennifer is an architect and biophilia consultant with more than 25 years of project experience. For the past decade, she has focused her work on aligning design with nature’s wisdom. Whether leading workshops on biomimicry and biophilia, speaking about regenerative development, or doing design work on various projects around the state, she is committed to the ideas that nature is a powerful mentor, and that architecture has a critical role to play in increasing the vitality of social and natural ecosystems.

Jennifer is active in the Northwest green building community, speaking frequently at conferences and workshops and advocating for environmental issues. She is the 2024 Co-Chair of the WA State AIA Honor Awards, a founding member of Biomimicry Puget Sound, and a co-creator of the Urban Greenprint, a project applying biomimicry at a city scale. Jennifer has a BA in Architecture from Princeton University and a Master of Architecture from the University of Washington. She has been licensed as an architect since 2006.