Environmental and Exhibition Design

Maggie Jacobstein Stern has more than a decade of experience in exhibition development to MASS, having served as a content and education specialist at Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the New York-based interpretive museum planning and design firm. Select projects there included the Russian Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, the Presidio Officer’s Club in San Francisco, the Arctic Studies Center at the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, and the Sentosa Maritime Museum in Singapore, among others.

She earned her B.A. from McGill University in Montreal and her Ed.M. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education., where she studied the intersection between design and learning.

Regina joined MASS in 2013. While based in the Kigali office, she led MASS’s immersion practices, helping to guide mission-driven design through community engagement and building the firm’s capacity to understand and partner with stakeholders. She moved to the Boston office in 2015 to lead a research project investigating the impact of capital projects, and developing tools to capture and share lessons learned.

Currently, Regina directs MASS’s Research and Publications arm. In this role, she guides and implements impact evaluation initiatives and oversees editorial strategy in publications and exhibitions. Regina guides MASS’s strategies in frontier markets, bringing together philanthropy, partner and project development, research, and advocacy through five subject matter-specific Design Labs. As the Principal leading the Gun Violence Memorial Project and the Restorative Justice Design Lab, she maintains a deep commitment to community engagement and diligent research in her work, and aims to help create space for truth telling, healing, and collective action. Her work helps to hold our work accountable, internally, with our communities, and with our partners. Regina studied Civil Engineering and Architecture at Princeton University and received her Master’s in Urban Planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Morgan O’Hara is a cultural historian of cities and the built environment. She has worked at MASS Design Group since 2018, where she conducts research to support built projects and exhibitions, and crafts written work alongside strategy for business development. Her backgrounds in cultural research, public history, and collaborative design have informed her approach to socio-spatial research to develop human-centered histories of urban space and infrastructural systems. For the Fringe Cities project, Morgan conducted longitudinal analyses of small cities in the United States that participated in mid-century urban renewal, and while at the Hudson Valley Office, she was embedded in the public engagement work necessary to craft meaningful community design solutions in Poughkeepsie. Her passion lies in elevating creative and community-driven expressions of lesser-known histories in public space. Morgan studied anthropology at Reed College and graduated from Columbia with a Master's in Historic Preservation. She has served as co-faculty for Studio II in Historic Preservation at Columbia GSAPP since 2021.

Annie joined MASS in February of 2018 as a Design Associate and is currently working on a kindergarten in Vietnam and a health clinic in Texas. Before MASS, she worked at Peter Rose + Partners and AMO/OMA in Rotterdam where she conducted research for publications and editing. She received her Bachelor of Art in psychology and architecture from the University of Toronto and her Master of Architecture I from Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Bob joined MASS as Director of Graphic Design in January of 2022. He will work in a wide range of capacities, helping to move the firm’s brand forward in all mediums, working to develop strategic management of MASS’s fast-growing archive of visual assets, providing design direction and graphic support to business development and project leadership through refinement and development of graphic standards and templates, mentoring and sharing of ‘best graphic design practices’. He will also join the expanding exhibit design practice at MASS, and will contribute environmental graphics and wayfinding expertise to architectural and planning projects.

Bob studied Architecture and European Culture at Princeton University, received an MFA in Graphic Design from the Yale School of Art, and furthered his studies of typography and printing in Venice, Italy, on a Fulbright Grant. He has worked in a wide variety of design firms, specializing in branding, architecture, and exhibition design, as well as a period focused on marketing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He loves to learn, and to teach, and to work with mission-driven colleagues. He is happy to be able to bring the full depth and breadth of his experiences together in a new role at MASS.