Dr. Danielle S. Willkens Assoc. AIA, FRSA, LEED AP BD+C is a practicing designer, researcher, and FAA Certified Remote Pilot who serves as an Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Initiative Lead for Resilient and Informed Communities at the Institute for People and Technology (IPaT). She authored The Transatlantic Design Network: Thomas Jefferson, John Soane, and Agents of Architectural Exchange (2024) and Architecture for Teens: A Beginner’s Book for Aspiring Architects (2021). Her teaching and research disciplines include adaptive reuse, historic preservation, digital documentation and visualization, sustainable tourism, American architecture, and Modern Civil Rights Movement heritage. She received research support from the Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation, the International Center for Jefferson Studies, the American Philosophical Society, the American Institute of Architects, the National Park Service, and the National Center for Preservation Training and Technology. She was a Mellon History Teaching Fellow in Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks (2021) and a Society of Architectural Historians' H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellow (2015). She holds a PhD in architectural history and theory from University College London’s Bartlett School of Architecture, a M.Phil from the University of Cambridge, a Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation from Savannah College of Art and Design, and a M.Arch and BS from the University of Virginia.