News
January 2021 WHEREing | Podcast Interview
December 2020 HUD/GO-Biz/AIA Opportunity Zone Panel | Moderator
August 2020 Buro Happold | Speaker, Collective Impact Series
January 2020 XX|LA Architects | Podcast Interview
September 2019 Publication |Next City, “In Its Search for New Approaches to Affordable Housing, Southern California is Thinking Small”
February 2019 Occidental College | Panelist, ‘Voices from the Ground’
July 2017 – current D4D AIA | LA Taskforce member
September 2016 – current AWA+D, 50:50 Gender Equity Initiative Chair
March 2017 – 2021 Board Member, Ten Thousand Villages, Pasadena (non-profit)
October 2015 – AIA|LA/WiA Symposium, Moderator/Speaker
February 2016 – 2019 Board Member, Fair Trade L.A. (non-profit)
November 2016 AIA Pasadena/Foothills | Panelist Diversity and Inclusion
November 2016 WuHo Gallery, ‘Range’ Alumni Exhibition, Woodbury University
November 2015 Leading core committee and launch on the “50:50×2020 Initiative” on behalf of the AWA+D
October 2015 UNCC, North Carolina, Speaker/Panelist “Women in Design”
October 2015 AWA+D, President 2015/16
October 2015 AIA|LA Powerful Women Leading Design, Moderator, “Springboard: Alternate Practice”
August 2015 Woodbury University, Adjunct Faculty
May 2015 AWA+D Symposium “The Rise”- Building Downtown L.A. at DWell on Design
February 2015 AIA|LA Steering Committee and Speaker “Powerful: Women Leading Design”
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February 2015 Publication (London) “The Peerless Qualities of Stainless Steel”
http://www.johndesmond.com/
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November 2014 Fair Trade LA, Steering Committee
To make Los Angeles a Fair Trade city
October 2014 AWA + D Board Member (Los Angeles), Vice President
Association for Women in Architecture + Design
September 2012 Publication di.net “Forces to reckon with in an evolving landscape of change”
https://www.di.net/articles/forces-to-reckon-with-in-an-evolving-landscape-of-change/