Gleason worked for a few other architecture firms beginning in 1981. Principal, Gleason and Associates, Seattle, WA, 1982-1997; Principal, Environmental Works, Seattle, WA, 1997-2009; Environmental Works operated as a nonprofit architecture firm, one of the only ones in the U.S. Gleason was an expert in the design of child-care centers, homeless shelters, low-income housing and community centers, notable for her ability to maximize meager budgets.

According to a Seattle Times obituary on her, "Ms. Gleason particularly liked working on child-care centers, friends say, and participated in the design and construction of more than 50 over the years. In 2002, she co-authored a manual about how they should be designed, which was sponsored by the state Department of Trade and Economic Development, and has been distributed nationally."

Fellow, American Institute of Architects, 2006. David Hewitt was a sponsor of Gleason's.

B.S., Social Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; M.Arch., University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1981. Her Master's Thesis was entitled: "Observations of Vernacular Architecture in Southwestern Portugal."

She lived with her partner, Ron Hand, for 18 years, c. 1992-2010.

Gleason died of lung cancer.

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