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Kenneth Brown is a true home-grown design celebrity with a cosmopolitan worldview. Born and raised in Baton Rouge, he received a bachelor’s degree in interior design from LSU in 1995. Kenneth is the principal and owner of Kenneth Brown Design, with offices in Los Angeles and Baton Rouge. He has completed homes for Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Kristen Bell, Mia Hamm, and Nomar Garciaparra. In addition to his residential portfolio, Kenneth has completed numerous commercial projects such as A. Rudin’s Los Angeles Flagship Showroom, Cedars-Sinai’s Founder’s Room, Endeavor Talent Agency, Wood and Vine Restaurant and Bar and hotel collaborations.

His broad exposure and popularity from his own television shows on Fine Living, TLC, and HGTV led MSN.com to offer Kenneth the role of resident Interior Design Expert. In addition, American Express Open selected Kenneth to share his success story as part of their ongoing Iconic Open Forum Series. Oprah’s O magazine featured Kenneth in her “Live Your Best Life Tour.” He has been named a top 100 designer by House Beautiful and Western Interiors. He has appeared on The Today Show, Tyra, CNN, iVillage Live, Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America, and Fox Morning News.

Kenneth was a visiting professor in the LSU School of Interior Design in fall of 2011 and 2012.

Cristina Garvie started her career as a workplace strategist and commercial interior designer at Gensler-Houston in 2011. She earned her NCIDQ certificate in 2014. In 2017 she began work at Jones Lang LaSalle as an Occupancy Planner for a Fortune 500 company. She manages various commercial design projects within an 8 million square foot portfolio nationwide. In her spare time, she teaches an exam preparation study group for the NCIDQ exam based out of her home in San Diego, CA.

Juli Schroeder was promoted to senior associate at Gensler, Houston, in 2014. She has been with Gensler for eight years and has been involved with many workplace projects, including Southwestern Energy Company, Transocean, Seadrill, and Kinder Morgan.

Glen Boudreaux, RID, ASID, IDG, BID ’80, is president of Boudreaux Associates. In 2014, he was selected as one of Dallas’s Best Designers by D Home magazine for the fourth year in a row. Boudreaux Associates provides personal lifestyle environments for high-end commercial and residential clients, with projects completed or working in Dallas, Fort Worth, Pensacola, Gulf Shores, Tucson, Teluride, Durango, Chicago, New York, and Costa Rica. The firm also recently received appreciation proclamation from the mayor of Dallas for playing a role in the construction industry of the city.

Glen’s Portfolio

Rachel Cannon Lewis (BID ’04) is a contributing editor of House & Home magazine, which led to her regular segment on Talk 107.3 FM’s Saturday Style with Karen Profita, where she brings expert guests into the show on the first Saturday of each month for a design discussion roundtable. Rachel is also WBRZ’s resident design expert and joins the 4 p.m. broadcast the last Friday of each month for a short segment on design. Her design firm, Rachel Cannon Lewis Interiors, continues to flourish, and one of her residential projects was published on HGTV.com.

Read more about Rachel in this alumni spotlight.

Rachel’s Portfolio

Beverly Gaudin, BID ’12, landed a job in New York City as a retail store designer for LeSportsac, an international handbag company. Beverly assisted in the completion of the LeSportsac NY headquarters showroom, the New York flagship store on Madison Avenue, and other LeSportsac locations worldwide.

Beverly’s Portfolio