Sam De Jong is an Associate Principal in BNIM’s Kansas City office. He is passionate about design for social impact with the belief that architecture of high quality and innovation is created by disparate minds coming together. Sam’s extensive experience at BNIM bridges numerous project types and scales, from higher education projects with University of Missouri and Rockhurst University, to housing, nonprofit, religious, urban design and planning, and diplomatic work with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations.

Most recently, Sam championed BNIM’s approach to the development of sustainable, equitable housing for all through an initiative called Address. Sam’s dedication to a holistic human-centered design approach has been recognized for design excellence through numerous local, regional and national design awards, including a local AIA Design Excellence award for a self-initiated design and development of the Harrison Duplex, and an AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten Project Award for a volunteer project in rural western Kenya at the Asilong Christian High School.