Katy Hunchar

Katy Hunchar is a principal and the firm’s director of marketing and business development, leading strategic marketing, business development, and communications across all of the firm’s disciplines and offices. She blends a love of the arts and culture with more than 15 years of business development experience to imagine new ways that we can shape the future of planning and design. 

Katy approaches every project with a high level of detail, discernment, and curiosity. She enjoys collaborating with designers and translating their work into impactful stories. A competitor by nature, Katy pushes the firm to think creatively and strategically about brand and growth. She has a talent for seeing the big picture and leads the firm’s annual business planning process and strategic planning every five years. Katy is a member of the AIA Large Firm Roundtable Marketing Subcommittee and the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP). She has a B.A. and M.A. from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Katy is also a talented visual artist and illustrator. She has worked with the Human Rights Campaign and her work has been published in The New York Times Book Review.