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.

RECENT EVENTS
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
AIA 2005 Demographic Diversity Data Audit
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.