Since founding KPa+d in 1992, Ms. Payson has built a practice serving both private and public clients. Completed projects include three branch libraries in San Francisco and a new home for the San Francisco Holocaust Archive. Ms. Payson has also designed large-scale single-family homes throughout Northern California, Wyoming and New York. She has been a Lecturer, Associate Professor and Guest Critic at UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York), Academy of Art College, UC Berkeley Extension, California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo, and NY Institute of Technology.