MASS (Model of Architecture Serving Society) Design Group was founded in 2008 as a nonprofit organization with the mission to research, design, build, and advocate for architecture that promotes justice and human dignity. With offices across the U.S. and headquarters in Boston and Kigali, Rwanda, the organization traverses geographic, typological, and disciplinary boundaries.MASS is a team of over 200 architects, landscape architects, engineers, builders, furniture designers, writers, filmmakers, and researchers representing 20 countries across the globe. MASS Design Group has received the 2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award, The Wall Street Journal’s 2020 Architecture Innovator award, and the Cooper Hewitt’s 2017 National Design Award in Architecture. The program will begin with a moderated conversation featuring seven of MASS’s project leaders: Jha D Amazi, Christian Benimana, Jonathan Evans, Patricia Gruits, Jeffrey Mansfield, Jean Paul Sebuhayi Uwase, and Caitlin Taylor. The conversation will be followed by an open Q&A with these 8 project leaders and an additional 15 of MASS’s principals, including Kelly Alvarez Doran, Justin Brown, Regina Chen, Rosie Goldrick, Christopher Kroner, Anton Larsen, Ashley Marsh, Sarah Mohland, Julie Rhoad, Alan Ricks, David Saladik, Adam Saltzman, Amie Shao, Katie Swenson, and Peter Torrebiarte. Architect Jeffrey Mansfield is a principal in the Boston office and leads the group’s Deaf Space and Disability Justice Lab.