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In Conversation With Kimberly Dowdell Please join us for our next Jane Jacobs Lecture! The next Jane Jacobs Lecture will be a dynamic conversation with the current President of the American Institute of Architects, Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC. This virtual discussion will highlight the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in architecture today through the lens of Jane Jacobs’s ideals. This virtual lecture will take place on Tuesday, April 9th at 4:00 pm (eastern). This lecture, a program of The Center For The Living City, is sponsored by Marywood University’s School of Architecture and the American Institute of Architects of Northeastern Pennsylvania. AIA CEU Credit is available for this lecture. ABOUT KIMBERLY DOWDELL Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC, is the 2024 President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Dowdell is also a principal with global design firm HOK, serving as firmwide director of strategic relationships. In 2019-2020, Dowdell served as national president of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA). Dowdell has devoted her career to laying the foundations for architects to create positive social and environmental change on a local, national, and global scale. She has intentionally connected a diverse array of built environment stakeholders to help advance her professional mission, which is “to improve people’s lives, by design.” At HOK, Dowdell co-chairs the firm’s Diversity Advisory Council (DAC) and co-founded HOK Impact, the firm’s social responsibility program. She also co-founded Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED), an organization that promotes design for healthy communities in 2005. Dowdell earned her Master of Public Administration at Harvard and her Bachelor of Architecture at Cornell, where she was elected by her fellow alumni to serve on the board of trustees in 2022. |
The event will be recorded and available on our website and YouTube channel afterward. |