MEETINGS
This committee will meet the first Tuesday of every month from 4-5:30PM, at AIA Seattle.

For current educational classes and other events related to this committee, visit our Calendar.

The AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable would like to congratulate Rico Quirindongo AIA of DKA for being selected as a 2009-2010 member of the AIA Seattle Board of Directors.

RECENT EVENTS
2009 SUMMER SOLSTICE/JUNETEENTH EVENT

Many thanks to all who participated in the 2009 Summer Solstice! Special thanks in particular to scholarship donors DKA, Rolluda Architects, Guido Perla Architects, Lisa Richmond, Dinesh Kumar, Douglas Jennings AIA, atelierjones, and Suehiro Architecture. Also, thanks to Fred and Mariana Quarnstrom, ZDS Architects, University of Washington Foundation, the AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable, and restaurants Zaina and Tutta Bella.

Missed the event? Please consider supporting the scholarships by making a tax-deductible contribution via the UW Foundation Website—click the name of the fund you wish to support below:

Denice Johnson Hunt Endowed Fund

Marga Rose Hancock Endowed Scholarship for Diversity

Congratulations to Jennifer Richter, the 2009 winner of the Marga Rose Hancock Endowed Scholarship for Diversity. Awarded to a graduate architecture student in the University of Washington's College of Built Environments, the scholarship supports academically meritorious and financially needy students, with a preference for underrepresented minorities. Jennifer, a graduate student at the UW, plans to use the funds to study in Copenhagen, Denmark.
2008 Children's Gingerbread House Design Competition
Thank you to Diversity Roundtable members Guido Seoanes-Perla Assoc. AIA, Kim Fong AIA, Leon Holloway Assoc. AIA, Doug Jennings AIA, and to UW CAUP Assistant Dean Abby Crossen for organizing the 2008 Gingerbread Design Competition on December 13, 2008 featuring 30 students from Robert Frost Elementary School. Many thanks to of University of Washington College for Built Environments for hosting the event, to Robert Frost Elementary Principal Sue Anne Sullivan for her cooperation, and to Dion Kuhlka and Angela Khuon Abbott for volunteering."

Celebrating Women in Architecture
Thanks to the AIA Seattle Diversity Roundtable, the Association for Women in Architecture, Jan Gleason FAIA, University of Washington Capital Projects Office, the University of Washington College of Built Environments, Mithun, NOMA Northwest, Belt Collins, and everyone who participated and contributed to the Celebrating Women in Architecture event this week! Thanks to Suzanne Zahr Fleming AIA and Ashley Richardson of ZDS Architects for their hard work in producing the Women in Architecture slide presentation (download as pdf).

LINKS
AIA Seattle Diversity Scholarships at UW CAUP
NW NOMA: Northwest Chapter of the National Organization for Minority Architects
Noted black architect and educator Max Bond Jr. FAIA died at 73 on Feb. 18

A brief history
Beginning in 1986, a group comprising David Fukui AIA, Johnpaul Jones FAIA, Tom Kubota AIA, Marga Rose Hancock Hon. AIA, and Mel Streeter AIA began meeting informally, usually over breakfast at Lowell's in the Market. By 1990, the group formalized as the AIA Seattle Minority Membership Committee, and grew to include Steve Arai AIA, Nancy Callery AIA, Keli Hagen Assoc AIA, Denice Hunt AIA, Donald King FAIA, Rena Klein FAIA, Teresa Rodriguez AIA, Sharon E. Sutton FAIA, and Jim Suehiro AIA – among others. The group organized itself around a commitment to bring diversity into the architecture profession. The effort of Roundtable members has made a sustained contribution to AIA Seattle leadership, with several Roundtable alumni/ae among AIA Seattle Presidents and Board members, to AIA Seattle programming through the annual Summer Solstice event, and to bringing youth from minority and disadvantaged backgrounds into the profession through K-12 activism and scholarship and other support for students at University of Washington College of Architecture and Planning. The Roundtable also has an ongoing influence in the AIA national Diversity agenda – including hosting the AIA national Diversity Conference in Seattle August 1997.