Brooke Martin
Senior Associate | Project Manager | Licensed Architect | Justice & Secure Healthcare SME
Dewberry Architects, Inc
Brooke Martin, AIA, NCARB, CCHP, LEED GA, a Justice & Secure Healthcare Architect | Project Manager | Senior Associate at Dewberry Architects, Inc. has 20 years of experience as a skilled architectural designer having worked on a wide variety of local and national projects. As a licensed architect, she has surveyed millions of square feet in building space with an expertise to quickly review and assess existing facilities’ needs. Brooke’s true passion is Justice Architecture, specifically Corrections Reform, Restorative Justice, and Recovery: focused on challenging the status quo through supportive, trauma-informed, intentionally humane design that supports positive, treatment-focused outcomes within skill-building and learning environments and integrating functions that fit within a community's continuum-of-care.
Her desire is to provide clients and communities with restorative solutions that help deflect, divert, and treat specific populations through critical assessments, program integration, stakeholder input, and innovative built environments with the goal of increasing community safety, reducing recidivism, lowering incarceration rates, and improving staff retention. Healthy communities are built through compassionate care for those most vulnerable, bringing equity to “invisible” populations, and action through holistic justice and restorative practices.
In 2016, she wrote a Justice Architecture Net-Zero Energy Design thesis about Justice Architecture’s impact within the community. She was the 2018 & 2019 national Chair & Co-Chair for AIA’s Academy of Architecture for Justice – Sustainable Justice Committee. In the past, Brooke has driven innovative thinking and design by teaching architecture part-time at Illinois Central College as an Adjunct Professor. Published in August 2021, she worked with AIA’s AAJ Sustainable Justice Committee to collaboratively re-write, update, and co-author their "Sustainable 2040: Green Guide to Justice" white paper during the 2020 pandemic. It is justice reimagined.
Her desire is to provide clients and communities with restorative solutions that help deflect, divert, and treat specific populations through critical assessments, program integration, stakeholder input, and innovative built environments with the goal of increasing community safety, reducing recidivism, lowering incarceration rates, and improving staff retention. Healthy communities are built through compassionate care for those most vulnerable, bringing equity to “invisible” populations, and action through holistic justice and restorative practices.
In 2016, she wrote a Justice Architecture Net-Zero Energy Design thesis about Justice Architecture’s impact within the community. She was the 2018 & 2019 national Chair & Co-Chair for AIA’s Academy of Architecture for Justice – Sustainable Justice Committee. In the past, Brooke has driven innovative thinking and design by teaching architecture part-time at Illinois Central College as an Adjunct Professor. Published in August 2021, she worked with AIA’s AAJ Sustainable Justice Committee to collaboratively re-write, update, and co-author their "Sustainable 2040: Green Guide to Justice" white paper during the 2020 pandemic. It is justice reimagined.