Join ULI Pittsburgh’s Women’s Leadership Initiative as they partner with AIA Pittsburgh’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee for “Built by Women : How would women design cities differently”.

The workshop will assemble women leaders and innovators together to examine how our city can evolve to be more equitable, diverse and inclusionary from a viewpoint of women in our community. The event also focuses on keynote speaker, Architect, Planner, and Sasaki Foundation Chair, Mary Anne Ocampo, followed by six local women from across various interrelated fields within real estate and design that will lead to small table conversations to discuss ideas and experiences that women bring to the field and how we can continue to transform our lived environment to be more inclusive for all. We will have conversations about rethinking the design and planning of our city to support equity, inclusion and that support women. The program builds upon a panel discussion conducted virtually in 2021 and proposes an in-person round table workshop that assembles women leaders and innovators to examine how our city can evolve to be more equitable, diverse, and inclusionary from the viewpoint of women in our community. 

Mary Anne Ocampo

Principal at Sasaki, Associate Professor of the Practice of Urban Design and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chair of the board for the Hideo Sasaki Foundation

 

Mary Anne Ocampo is a Principal at Sasaki, a multidisciplinary firm with an integrated planning and design philosophy, and an Associate Professor of the Practice of Urban Design and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She practices as an urban designer, working on international and domestic institutional and urban projects, leading teams with strategic planning and a commitment to design excellence. Mary Anne’s research focuses on urban design and cultural identity; socio-ecological urban design approaches to urban resilience; and planning and design for higher education. Read more.

 

With Roundtable Discussions led by:

• Carissa Slotterback, PhD, FAICP, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
• Kathryn Schlesinger, Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership
• Ling Hong Almoubayyed, SmithGroup
• Janai Williams Smith, eholdings
• Georgia Petropoulos, Oakland BID
• Dusty Kirk, ReedSmith LLP

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