Garfield Peart is the Atlanta Business Leader for SSOE Group with 30 years of experience in the industry.  He is also the 2023-2025 Georgia State Representative to the American Institute of Architects Strategic Council. Garfield is a Registered Architect in the State of Georgia and the Commonwealth of Virginia.  He received his Bach. of Architecture at Howard University and MBA in Sustainability Business with a concentration in Green Development from Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon. He is a retired Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Air Force Reserve with over 28 years of service.

Garfield’s honors and organizations include the 2021 class of the Christopher Kelley Leadership Development Program, past Commissioner, Atlanta Urban Design Commission,  past National Treasurer and South Region Vice-President for the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), 2019 Dorothy Spence Citizen Architect Award, and 2016 James Gant Fausett, FAIA Service to the Profession Award from AIA Atlanta Chapter and 2012 Ford Freedom Unsung Heroes Award, by the Ford Motor Company and Atlanta Center for Civil and Human Rights. His articles and work on diversity and sustainability have been featured in several publications including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Saporta Report, Curbed Atlanta, VoyageATL, and Design Equilibrium, a publication of AIA Atlanta. Garfield was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2025.