Charrisse Johnston is the Chair of the National Board of Directors of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and a principal and the firm-wide interior design practice leader at Steinberg Architects, with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, California, and Shanghai. She was previously senior associate and studio operations leader at Gensler where she managed and designed K‐12, higher education, and workplace projects. Before that, as vice president of corporate planning at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, she oversaw the company’s consolidated financial and strategic planning efforts.