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Construction Design & Engineering
Posted: February 6, 2026
DREAM Collaboratives' 2026 leadership team
Boston, MA DREAM Collaborative is a Boston-based, 100% minority-owned architecture, planning, and real estate development firm with a leadership team that reflects the diversity of the communities it serves. Founded in 2008 by Greg Minott AIA, LEED AP and Troy Depeiza, Assoc. AIA, DREAM works locally, nationally, and globally. DREAM has intentionally structured its leadership to address today’s housing, climate, and funding challenges while delivering complex, community-centered projects across multiple sectors, without sacrificing design excellence or long-term impact.
DREAM’s leadership model integrates development strategy, capital alignment, business development, architectural delivery, and adaptive reuse, allowing the firm to steward projects from vision through execution under one coordinated platform. As managing principal and co-founder, Greg Minott AIA LEED AP leads DREAM’s development strategy, capital partnerships and long-term growth initiatives. As principal and co-founder, Troy Depeiza assoc. AIA focuses on business development and client relationships, cultivating partnerships that drive the firm’s projects locally, nationally, and internationally. Rania Qawasma RA, LEED GA is DREAM's senior director of Architecture Practice and provides strategic oversight of design excellence, technical rigor, and project delivery across multiple concurrent projects. Thea Massouh AIA, LEED AP BD+C leads DREAM’s adaptive reuse practice, transforming existing and historic buildings into high-performing environments that support evolving programmatic and operational needs.
As the firm continues to grow locally and collaborate nationally, and globally, DREAM’s leadership team brings deep expertise, strategic insight, and a shared commitment to design excellence, sustainability, and client-centered impact.
Learn more here: www.dreamcollaborative.
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