On August 12, 2026, Moseley announced Stephen Halsey, AIA, has been named the firm’s first chief design officer, and Ashley Dennis, AIA, has been named leader of the K-12 education sector. The appointments reflect the firm’s commitment to design excellence and to developing the leadership necessary to sustain it across all sectors and offices.
Halsey joined Moseley’s Richmond office in 2007. Since being named K-12 education sector leader in 2021, he has expanded the firm’s reach across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, building a body of work recognized by the Virginia Association for Learning Environments, the Virginia School Boards Association and others.
As a member of the firm’s board of directors, Halsey provides leadership and support to the firm’s design collaboration team, a cross-disciplinary group that brings together representatives from all six of the firm’s sectors to develop new ideas and raise design standards firmwide. In addition to his responsibilities as the firm’s chief design officer, Stephen will continue to serve clients as a principal in the K-12 education sector.
Halsey holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture and a Bachelor of Architecture from North Carolina State University’s College of Design. He served as president of the Association for Learning Environments (A4LE) Virginia Chapter from 2018 to 2019.
Dennis joined Moseley’s Raleigh office in 2008. Over the course of her career with the firm, she has led her projects with close attention to what educators, administrators, facilities staff and students need from the spaces they occupy, and that orientation has defined both the quality of her work and the growth of the firm’s presence in the region. Under her management since 2017, the firm’s Raleigh office has grown exponentially: the staff size has doubled and the number of K-12 clients has nearly tripled. She was appointed to Moseley’s board of directors in 2023.
As K-12 education sector leader, Dennis will guide the firm’s team of principals across Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Maryland, bringing to that role the relationships and judgment she has developed over nearly two decades of school design work.
Dennis holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from North Carolina State University’s College of Design. She is the current president-elect of the A4LE Southeast Region and served as president of the A4LE North Carolina Chapter in 2022. Ashley is a member of the board of directors for WakeEd Partnership and a member of the AIA NC/Carolinas Associated General Contractors Joint Cooperative Committee.