Kelly Alvarez Doran is the Senior Director of Sustainability and Regenerative Design at MASS Design Group. He joined MASS in 2014 to lead the Kigali office, overseeing the growth of the practice from a team of 8 to 80 over a five-year period, and he directed and implemented several projects across East Africa. He is professor at The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and at the University of Toronto where his Ha/f Research Studio is focused on the whole life carbon of the built environment. He was the recipient of the Canada Council’s Prix de Rome for Emerging Practitioners, the Irving Grossman Prize for innovation in housing design, and both AIA and RAIC medals. He previously held teaching positions at the University of Waterloo, Università Iuav di Venezia, and the GSD, Harvard University.