Our Team
Amanda Ingmire
Amanda (she/her) is a Licensed Architect and Senior Policy Analyst at DEQ where she co-leads the Built Environment program. In this role, she focuses on understanding and addressing the full life cycle impacts of the built environment while centering equity, racial justice, and wellbeing.
Amanda is a connector, convener, and collaborative strategist. She deeply believes that building relationships and working together to envision and co-create together is crucial to moving toward a more just future.
When not working on all things built environment, Amanda can be found with her nose in a book or basking in mother nature or both. Her happiest place is forest bathing in the dappled light under the trees.
Ximena Cruz Cuevas
Ximena (she/her) supports the Built Environment program as a program strategist. She is a systems thinker and approaches her work in the program through a holistic lens. Her passion in this work is in helping to create new systems that work to enhance the quality of life for people who interact with the built environment.
Ximena also leads the Environmental Justice work at DEQ she works to address silos across the agency by connecting and promoting collaboration across programs.
Her favorite places in the built environment space are the rose garden and the art museum. She loves to witness the beauty that exists in the world.
Rita Haberman
Bio coming soon.
minal mistry
Minal supports the program with an eye on the various systems that intersect in the built spaces. They include global materials flows, social and wellbeing parameters needed for people, places and for all life to flourish, and by framing research to fill knowledge gaps for the same.
Minal is a biologist, an artist, and an advocate for relational approaches that bring together place-based lived experience on equal footing with scientific understanding for equitable development and good governance.
Minal is a friend to all creatures great and small. His preferred mode of transport is a bicycle because it affords an intimate relationship with the place by moving at a more human pace in a hectic and noisy world.