Janet Roche, MDS

Janet Roche is a leader in designing for health and wellness. She received her Master’s in Design for Human Health within the Master’s of Design Studies program at the Boston Architectural College (BAC). Since graduation, Ms. Roche has been an adjunct BAC instructor teaching Environmental Health, Human Conditions + Design, and Biophilia. She mentors BAC students in various work-study programs to examine, among other things, health determinants with the built environment. Ms. Roche is also currently the Chair for the Alumni Council for the BAC.

With a background that includes a B.S. in Social Work from Boston University, a Certificate of Business and Management from Harvard University Extension School, and nearly two decades of owning her own production company, Ms. Roche is now engaging her love of design, helping others, and business by owning her own company, Janet Roche Designs, LLC. Her company believes that it can find real design solutions to the human condition.

In 2019, Ms. Roche launched her own podcast, Inclusive Designers™, and in 2020 she started the Trauma-informed Design Society along with J. Davis Harte, Ph.D., and eventually adding Christine Cowart (2021). Ms. Roche and Ms. Cowart do a variety of presentations on trauma and trauma-informed design for marginalized populations and consult on projects around the world. They also started Trauma-informed Design Consultants, LLC, in 2023.