Sonja Faye Norton

Sonja Norton brings over two decades of experience working within architecture as a designer and strategic planner, specializing in master planning, programming, and change management for large-scale institutional, healthcare, residential, and commercial projects. Collaborating with architects, engineers, and urban planners, she excels at connecting big-picture vision with operational realities, ensuring spaces are both functional and adaptable to future needs. Her expertise spans data analysis, workplace strategy, and space utilization planning — all applied to maximize efficiency while centering human well-being and sustainability. Whether working on campuses, healthcare facilities, or residential communities, Sonja brings a people-centered lens, ensuring environments support both human experience and long-term resilience.

In addition to her professional career, Sonja has been passionate about biomimicry, permaculture, and regenerative systems thinking since earning her permaculture design certification in 2016. Though her hands-on permaculture work has been limited to community volunteer projects and personal study, her understanding of whole-systems thinking, regenerative agriculture, and land stewardship increasingly informs her approach to the built environment. Sonja believes the future of sustainable development lies in blending strategic planning, ecological literacy, and community-driven design — a convergence that inspires her to merge professional expertise with personal passion. Skilled at seeing patterns, connecting dots, and facilitating engagement processes that honor diverse voices — including Indigenous worldviews — Sonja brings a holistic, pragmatic, and systems-minded approach to projects seeking to create places that nourish both people and planet.