Shalini Agrawal brings over 25 years of experience in community engagement, and has dedicated her career to bringing diversity and equity in design, art and architecture. She is co-director of Pathways to Equity, a leadership experience for responsible community-engaged design, and founder and principal of Public Design for Equity, an equity-driven practice for equity-driven outcomes. Shalini is on the board of Architects Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility, and Association for Community Design, as their Director of Fellowship. She is Associate Professor in Critical Ethnic Studies at California College of the Arts.
Read More#39 Native Voices with the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective
For the first time in the history of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, there are four Native American students enrolled at the same time. They are Elsa Hoover, Zoe Toledo, Heidi Brandow, and Jaz Bonnin, and together, they have formed the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective. Their aim is to support the education and work of Indigenous architects, planners, designers, scholars, allies, and alumni of the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Read More#38 Community Engagement with Siboney Diaz-Sanchez
Siboney is an Enterprise Rose Fellow in the Boston area. She works to understand how architecture and design can best serve communities. She is licensed as an architect in the state of Texas. Siboney is currently working at Opportunity Communities, a community development corporation. Her work for the next two years will focus on affordable housing development and community building because they are inherently connected.
Read More#37 An Integrated Work-Life with Meghana Joshi
Meghana Joshi is a Senior Project Manager at Little Diversified, Newport Beach. She is a board member of the AIA Orange County Chapter, and Director for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. She founded and chaired the Women in Architecture Committee. Under “Project Amplify” that she founded, she amplifies and celebrates voices and works of minority architects throughout the world with diverse projects.
Read More#36 COVID Diaries: A Biophilic Future with Bethany Borel, WELL AP
Bethany Borel is a Senior Associate at COOKFOX Architects in New York City. Bethany frequently speaks on the topics of biophilia and high-performance design, has found that a common thread in her design philosophy is that she holds the utmost respect for the natural environment. At COOKFOX, Bethany brings this thinking to her projects as she pursues environmentally responsible design.
Read More#35 COVID Diaries: Architecture is Political with Melissa R. Daniel
Melissa R. Daniel is an architectural designer in Washington D.C., and the creator and host of the Architecture is Political podcast, a podcast where Black and Brown folks have a conversation about architecture. She served as executive co-chair of the 2017 AIA Women’s Leadership Summit, and was a recipient of a 2018 AIA Associates Award.
Read More#34 COVID Diaries: Build Yourself with Mia Scharphie
Mia Scharphie is a career and business strategist, and the founder of Build Yourself. She helps women in design, tech and innovation move from managing the work to setting the agenda. She helps women move past bias and make their industries and workplaces better places for women's talent.
Read More#33 COVID Diaries: Community Spirit with Donna Sink, AIA
Donna Sink AIA is a registered architect who is committed to good design for everyone in the community. She has worked on urban design, cultural institution, and art exhibition design projects for the last 25 years and has previously lived in Philadelphia, Detroit, Portland, and Phoenix. Donna now lives in Indianapolis and works at Rowland Design, an architecture and interior design firm doing cultural, educational, and residential projects across the country. She is also one of the hosts of the Archinect Sessions podcast.
Read More#32 COVID Diaries: Changing the Way We Practice with Evelyn Lee
Evelyn Lee, AIA, is the first-ever senior experience designer at Slack Technologies. In her role, she works cross-functionally with business operations, business technology, people operations, and their build team to create amazing experiences for employees, clients, partners, and visitors. Evelyn is passionate about finding new business models to elevate the profession of architecture, ensuring it remains relevant in an ever-changing economy. She also currently serves as the Treasurer of the AIA National Board.
Read More#31 COVID Diaries: Space is a Privilege with Rosa Sheng, FAIA
Rosa Sheng is a Designer, Architect, and Thought Leader who is known for innovating Architecture with over 26 years experience. When asked "What type of Architecture do you do?" Her answer is "The kind that hasn't been done before." She is a founder of Equity by Design, past AIA SF President, and Principal and Director of Equity, Inclusion, and Design at SmithGroup.
Read More#30 You Are Your Own Boss with Barbara Flammang, FAIA
Barbara Flammang fundamentally changed downtown Los Angeles by leading her firm’s transformative work in the City’s historic core. Her enlightened management practices have tenaciously advanced equity, diversity and inclusivity for nearly 40 years.
Read More#29 Every Voice is Valuable with Yiselle Santos Rivera
Yiselle Santos Rivera, Associate AIA, is a medical planner and the Global Director of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion at HKS, Inc. With national and international experience on a broad range of healthcare, residential, institutional, and commercial/mixed-use projects, she thrives on building equitable practices, empowering the next generation of leaders, and creating inclusive platforms for engagement.
Read More#28 Architecture is a People Sport with Emily Grandstaff-Rice, FAIA
Emily Grandstaff-Rice, FAIA, is senior associate at Arrowstreet, a Boston-based architecture and design firm. She has experience with a broad range of academic, hospitality, institutional, and commercial projects, and her innovative design work reinforces that a building is more than its shell; it is an experience. She currently serves as the 2018-2020 Director-At-Large for the AIA Board of Directors.
Read More#27 Design Voice Podcast Origin Story!
Catherine Meng is an architect and Senior Associate at DLR Group based in San Francisco. She’s also the host of this podcast! In this episode, Catherine speaks with Madame Architect’s Julia Gamolina, and talks about her career journey, and what inspired her to start this podcast.
Read More#26 Digging Deep with Kathy Scott
Kathy Scott is a Principal at Walker Warner Architects where she leads the design on several of the firm’s projects, and mentors teams in the use of good processes to achieve the highest quality of work. Kathy believes that architecture has the capacity to elevate our daily lives, and that the best work results when designs evolve in a thoroughly considered and deliberate manner.
Read More#25 Designing Healthy Environments with PJ Glasco
PJ Glasco is a Principal at Cannon Design. She is a healthcare planner and designer who has worked with many of the nation’s top healthcare institutions to create landmark facilities. Her passion & strength lies in creating strong programs based on volume analysis and actualizing them into creative & operationally efficient planning solutions. PJ is a past chair of the Houston chapter of the AIA Committee on Architecture for Health and has presented at national industry conferences for several years.
Read More#24 How to Be with Phoebe Lam
Phoebe Lam is the Director of Operations and a Project Manager at William Duff Architects in San Francisco. Along with managing the studio’s operations, planning, and hiring, she also works on projects in the single-family residential and commercial sectors. She excels at managing complex projects with large numbers of consultants and multiple decision makers, and continually looks for new ways to apply sustainable principles and methods in all of her projects.
Read More#23 The Fabric of Cities with Dana Getman
Dana Getman is an Associate Principal at SHoP Architects in New York City, leading some of the firm’s most complex projects. During her time at SHoP, she has led and managed a wide range of dynamic projects including super tall skyscrapers, waterfront redevelopments, US embassies, and educational institutions.Dana is an expert working with user groups and community stakeholders to build consensus throughout the design and construction process.
#22 Change Leadership with Taryn Kinney
Taryn Kinney is a Principal, and K-12 Education Studio Leader at DLR Group. Taryn is a native Texan who has successfully led the strategy, visioning, planning, and design of more than two million square feet of learning space, both nationally and internationally. She incorporates current developmental research, environmental psychology, and organizational psychology to design facilities that respond to human learning and behavior.
Read More#21 Resiliency and Leaving the World Better For Others with Natalie Tse
Natalie Tse is a Project Manager at Tipping Structural Engineers with a broad range of design experience in educational, commercial/retail, residential, science and technology sectors. Natalie is deeply passionate about innovative solutions, well-integrated and cost-effective designs, responsiveness during construction, and open communication. She is profoundly committed to learning, mentoring, building strong relationships, family, and giving back to the community.
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