Penny Bonda, FASID, LEED AP works in the field of environmental communications and is a prominent writer and lecturer. As the Eco Editor of Interior Design magazine, she is a monthly contributor to their online resource, The Green Zone. 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 the co-chair of the USGBC/ASID Green Residential Renovation Guidelines Program.

Bonda serves on the ASID Foundation Board of Trustees, Council for Interior Design Accreditation Standards 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 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.