Emily McGee ’16 Receives Roaring10 Award

Emily McGee is an architect and healthcare designer with HOK, a global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm in Washington, D.C.

She earned a master’s degree in architecture plus health from Clemson as a member of the class of 2016 and bachelor’s degrees in both architecture and fine arts from Ball State University in 2011. She is pursuing a master’s degree in public health at Johns Hopkins University, where she was awarded the prestigious Bloomberg Fellowship.

While Clemson, Emily received the Global Health Corps Fellowship to serve in East Africa for 18 months, where she helped elevate Rwanda’s healthcare infrastructure standards. Her work with Clemson took her to Haiti during the fall of 2018 to advise a group of architecture and engineering students assigned to conduct a feasibility study for a surgical suite renovation and design.

Since joining HOK, she has worked on healthcare facilities serving vulnerable and underserved U.S. communities. She led the design of the first community hospital built in the District of Columbia in more than 25 years and helped plan a vision and rehabilitation center combining research, laboratory and clinical spaces to serve low-vision and rehab patients in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Emily co-leads HOK IMPACT, the firm’s social responsibility arm that provides pro-bono projects and services. She volunteers for the annual Building Industry Association Community Improvement Day to enhance and raise funds for parks, recreational spaces, and facilities for residents. She regularly lectures at the University of Maryland and is involved with graduate studios at Howard University and Clemson.

She also volunteers each summer as an architectural surveyor across various archaeological sites in Turkey, a job she began as an undergraduate student.