NEW YORK, NY, May 28, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Jessie Lydia Henshaw has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected based on their current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Ms. Henshaw has established a distinguished career as both a New York architect and a groundbreaking research scientist with HDS Natural Systems Design Science, where she has contributed her expertise since 1977. Since 2009 she has worked full time, professionally engaging with others on the great problem we all face on earth, of our natural systems increasingly misbehaving due to human interference. Her success comes from recognizing the working relationships of emerging systems as having largely independent internal and external designs, with differing pattern languages, like organisms do, which offers more and better views of human, economic, and environmental system relationships, lifecycles. Her work is shared in reports and papers, at professional meetings, in consultation and correspondence, and in discussions online, such as in the ISSS processes, on LinkedIn, with NGOs and others. Often now, as we face a natural world overwhelmed by our economic 'solutions', it is to explain nature's better ways for responding to limits to growth.

Her dedication to understanding natural systems is evident in her patient attention to detail, leading to uncovering what makes life so lively. She also delights in sharing the breadth of her scientific research in this and other fields. Her long-standing involvement with the International Society for the Systems Sciences, where she introduced Natural Systems Design Science, further underscores her commitment to advancing human knowledge.

Ms. Henshaw's career journey includes significant roles such as serving as a civil society stakeholder for UNEP FI & WRI from 2013 to 2015 and as a representative and science adviser for the UN NGO, IPS, and Commons Cluster consulting on the UN's world sustainability goals (SDGs) from 2012 to 2014. Her architectural background is highlighted by her tenure as a New York architect, contributing to major projects with firms such as Hugh Hardy's offices, Gwathmey Siegel, and Beyer Blinder Belle from 1985 to 2010. Prior to her architectural career, she worked as a forensic analyst at Sverdrup Engineering Services from 1984 to 1985.

Before starting her professional life, Ms. Henshaw made remarkable contributions with her groups of creative friends, such as transforming an 1890 opera house in New York State into a central hub for traveling performers and designing the major expansion of the Denver "People's Fair." Her subsequent research on how to connect physics and system design to study how natural systems independently develop and behave was the major result of her early research, which launched her career and led to her string of notable findings. She cultivated an open-minded approach that included studying the recurrent patterns of behavior change as unique new systems emerged from their natural contexts and learning to apply them elsewhere, a field of practice that science has often overlooked.

Ms. Henshaw's academic background laid the foundation for her diverse career. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in architecture and landscape design from the University of Pennsylvania in 1974. She completed graduate courses in topology and architecture at Columbia University from 1969 to 1970. From 1968 to 1969, she studied Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem at Stony Brook University. Her academic credentials include a Bachelor of Science in physics, with minors in mathematics, fine arts, and Russian studies, from St. Lawrence University in 1968. Her certifications include being a registered architect in New York from 1993 to 2010 and a licensed General Contractor from 1975 to 1979.

Her civic affiliations reflect her commitment to societal advancement. As an NGO representative on UN agency panels and with the Institute for Planetary Synthesis from 2012 to 2015, she consulted on the drafting of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and was a contributor to the Pattern Language design movement at meetings of the Hillside Group and PURPLSOC in 2015, making significant contributions to civic-minded organizations. Her accolades include a Best Engineering Paper of the Year Award from ASME for "Systems Energy Assessment" in 2011 and the graduation award for excellence in building structures and systems from the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture in 1974.

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