Jessica Leonard AIA, LEED AP

Jessica Leonard is an architect, planner, and principal with 20 years of experience shaping the future of college and university campuses. She brings energy, curiosity, and a drive to understand what makes each institution and campus unique. Jessica is trusted by university leaders to tackle complex, interrelated challenges and translate institutional priorities into a clear and compelling vision for the future. She runs workshops and stakeholder sessions that are dynamic and inclusive, ensuring that all voices are heard while never losing momentum toward a decision. She emphasizes implementation throughout the process, creating plans that are visionary, practical, and responsive to users’ needs.
Jessica is passionate about working across disciplines to develop the best solutions for clients. Her foundation in architectural design allows her to think and design at multiple scales, understand programmatic relationships and building condition challenges, and connect long-term planning decisions to the experience of individual buildings and places. She brings a designer’s perspective to planning, looking for opportunities to strengthen connections, create a sense of place, and translate broad institutional goals into tangible improvements to the campus experience.
Jessica enjoys working with large flagship public, R1, and land-grant universities across the country and she has extensive experience with the Smithsonian Institution, having led and managed projects for the National Zoo, NASM, NMAH, Pan-Institutional Collections Space Study, Pod 6, and the Dulles Collections Center. In her spare time, she enjoys guest lecturing at the University of Maryland, traveling, and mentoring in Baltimore City.






































































































































