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Penny Bonda Bio

-- Interior Design, 9/7/2004 12:00:00 AM

Penny Bonda, FASID, NCIDQ, LEED AP, popularly referred to as the “mother” of green interiors, works in the field of environmental communications and is a prominent writer and lecturer. She is the founding chair of the US Green Building Council committee for LEED Commercial Interiors and the ASID Sustainable Design Council, and is currently developing REGREEN, the USGBC / ASID Green Residential Remodeling Program. She is a monthly contributor to Interior Design magazine's online resource, The Green Zone.

Bonda is the recipient of ASID’s 2007 Designer of Distinction award and the 2003 USGBC Leadership Award. She authored Creating Sustainable Interiors, a monograph for NCIDQ and is co-author of a book, Sustainable Commercial Interiors, published by Wiley & Sons. Bonda serves on the ASID Foundation Board of Trustees, Council for Interior Design Accreditation (formerly FIDER) Standards Council, Antron Sustainability Advisory Council, Greenguard Advisory Council and the USGBC’s LEED training faculty. She was named to the National Register of Peer Professionals for GSA’s Design Excellence Program.

Bonda attended The American University in Washington, DC where she received degrees in education and interior design. As a practicing interior designer for 27 years, she has headed her own firm and served as the interior design director for leading design and architectural firms.

In 1996 Bonda served as the 21st national president of ASID, a 30,000-member organization that is the oldest and largest professional association of interior designers in the world and represents practitioners in all design specialties.