Mary Butcher serves as Director of Marketing at Coakley & Williams Construction (CWC), where she leads marketing strategy, pursuit development, brand management, and corporate communications. Working closely with company leadership, business development, preconstruction, and operations, she helps strengthen CWC’s market presence, support strategic growth, and communicate the expertise behind the company’s people and projects.

Mary brings a multidisciplinary background spanning architecture, urban planning, construction project management, and marketing. Before joining CWC, she led marketing efforts at CGS Architects, building on earlier experience in architectural design and nonprofit construction project management in the United States and Haiti. Her diverse experience provides a unique understanding of the built environment and shapes her collaborative approach to leadership, strategic communication, and creative problem-solving.

Mary’s commitment to community-focused design is reflected in her work advancing bicycle education and safer streets. Building on her graduate research in bicycle education, she designed Washington, DC’s first two traffic gardens in partnership with DC Public Schools (DCPS), supporting the district’s Biking in the Park program. The success of these early projects helped establish traffic gardens as a required feature of DCPS elementary school modernizations. She continues to advance bicycle education initiatives, most recently designing a traffic garden for DCBIA’s 2026 Community Improvement Day.

Mary holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a Master of Urban and Environmental Planning, both from the University of Virginia. She is an Associate member of the American Institute of Architects (Assoc. AIA).