SUN-C02 - Business and Culture: Breaking Norms in Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Sunday, November 21, 2021

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM CDT

Location: Music City Center, Room 106

1.00 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, FL, NY/non-HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Clarence Lacy

Project Director
RIOS
Los Angeles, California

Speaker(s)

Rikerrious M. Geter, Assoc. ASLA

Associate
GGN
Seattle, Washington
Diana Fernandez Bibeau, ASLA

Senior Associate
Sasaki
Watertown, Massachusetts

1.00 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AIA/non-HSW, AICP, FL, NY/non-HSW

In 2020, history and culture shifted, the landscape profession’s complicity in systems of inequality became a focus of much conversation and action. Dismantling of systems of oppression starts with how we as professionals can work both internally and externally to make a more just profession.

Learning Outcomes:

Discover various internal and external DEI efforts at three represented firms, how they have progressed and how they are continuously evolving.
Learn innovative methods to make the office more welcoming and supportive to BIPOC designers, and the reasons why this diversity is increasingly important to the profession.
Gain strategies to authentically and meaningfully engage and support inclusion and justice goals in project work.
Understand strategies for instituting new policies surrounding creating a more diverse and inclusive office culture.