Abena Darden is a Vice President with the Sustainability and Resilience Practice at Thornton Tomasetti, a multi-disciplinary engineering firm. With close to 20 years in the green building industry, Abena provides sustainability consulting for a range of clients including hospitality, life-sciences, healthcare, commercial, higher education, non-profit, and residential developers. Her role includes leading a team of consultants, engineers, and analysts, to develop sustainable policy, standards and guidelines, strategic planning and buildings analytics, to drive innovative solutions for a just and resilient future. She has served on several advisory cohort groups for the USGBC, is a LEED AP, Fitwel Ambassador, and Envision Sustainability Professional.