Pamela Hawkes has a national reputation for her research and design work in reinterpreting historic settings. A member of the Boston Landmarks Commission for 14 years, she has served on the Massachusetts Historic Commission, Preservation Massachusetts, and the Board of the United States Committee of the International Council on Monuments. Pamela currently serves on the United States General Services Administration's National Register of Peer Professionals and the Board of the James Marston Fitch Foundation in New York.

Pamela is a graduate of Williams College, holds a Master's Degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, and a Master of Architecture Degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where she teaches professional development courses on preservation and adaptive reuse. Pam has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania, the Preservation Institute (Nantucket) and at RPI, and co-taught ABA's Distinguished Firm in Residence Studio at Roger Williams University.