Ilijana Soldan, AIA, is a Project Architect at Hord Coplan Macht with a diverse background experience including higher education, K-12 schools, commercial office, retail, recreation, and master planning. She is a research-based designer with a passion for designing education spaces because of their important role in empowering the students who use them. Sustainability, equity, and emerging technologies are at the forefront of her overlapping interests with education environments.