Director of Sustainable Design, STV; BS, Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, George Mason University
The foundation of Alger’s career is based in civil engineering, as she was inspired to follow in her father’s footsteps. Since graduation, she embarked on a path to redefine sustainable design practices and has worked on many projects that incorporated green design elements. Determined to have a more significant impact on sustainable practices in the early planning and design stages, so Alger earned her professional engineering license and accreditation as an Envision Sustainability Professional. In 2022, Alger joined STV in the newly established position of sustainability manager where she embarked on building the firm’s national sustainability practice and quantifying sustainable design efforts across projects, charting a course for future action while tackling the firm’s carbon footprint head-on. Alger led the multidisciplinary team that developed STV’s new Embodied Carbon Action Plan, acting as the first step in fulfilling the firm’s Structural Engineers 2050 Commitment for colleagues to reduce embodied carbon, track data and analyze findings through STV’s Carbon Dashboard. She is also the chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers Infrastructure 2050 group. Outside of her work, Alger is a student research mentor for Columbia University’s Center for Buildings, Infrastructure and Public Space. She also volunteers with the Salvadori Center, an esteemed organization that partners with schools to provide math, science and arts programs to K-12 students. In her downtime, she enjoys hiking at national parks, rock climbing and attending concerts when she is at home in New York City.
