Nyarugenge District Hospital

Adam joined MASS in 2011, managing the Haiti office and completing the Ludwig Pavilion Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis Hospital and Cholera Treatment Center, both for Les Centres GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He then turned to manage MASS’s operations in Liberia, working with the Ministry of Health and the World Bank to plan the New Redemption Hospital Caldwell. Adam has also managed the Construction Administration for Equal Justice Initiative’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama and Nyarugenge District Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda. Currently, he serves as Principal and Director of MASS Build leading the construction of The Ellen DeGeneres Campus of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture.

Prior to MASS, Adam assisted with recovery efforts in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake through Architecture for Humanity. He also interned at Carazo Arquitectos in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Perkins + Will at their New York and Atlanta offices. Adam received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from James Madison University and his Master of Architecture from the University of Cincinnati in 2011.

Adam is the director of the MASS.Build Team, helping MASS invest in local construction capacity in Rwanda and assist our partners in delivering projects that maximize value throughout the supply chain. Read more about MASS.Build.

John joined MASS in early 2014 and spent two and a half years working in MASS' Kigali office before moving back to Boston, and is now based in Chicago. John has led design teams on two hospital projects currently under construction in Rwanda, Munini and Nyarugenge District Hospitals, and most recently New Redemption Hospital in Caldwell, Liberia. He is currently working on the design of a behavioral health furniture line and construction oversight for New Redemption Hospital. He's worked on projects in East Africa, West Africa, South Asia, and North America. Prior to joining MASS, John was awarded two Public Service Center Fellowships from MIT for water, sanitation, and hygiene projects in Tamale, Ghana. As a Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis in the spring of 2020 John led a studio focusing on the social determinants of health and design interventions in North St. Louis. He is currently pursuing an MBA at University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business as a Neubauer Civic Scholar. John received his Master of Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis.