David J. Calkins is Regional Managing Principal at Gensler. He also sits on the firm’s Management Committee. Other executive roles he has held at the firm include: leader of its Education Practice Area (for nine years). He often gave presentations at state, national and international gatherings for higher education. He is also a member of the Governmental Affairs Steering Committee and Design/Build Taskforce for the Texas Society of Architects, the Boards of Directors of the Architecture Center Houston Foundation and the Rice Design Alliance, and the William Ward Watkin Dean’s Council of the Rice School of Architecture.