Breaking the Glass Ceiling
NOMAS Symposium 2015
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michael Ford Special Guest Lecture on Hip Hop inspired Architecture
Mini-Lectures
The Kaizen Way
Lecturer: Juan Moreno
This lecture will talk about how one small change can alter everything. It will apply towards two main points:1)how to set yourself up for the career path you want. 2) Learning the fundamentals of how to navigating your career as economic and social changes occur.
Getting the Best Package...
Lecturer: Michele Plante
This Lecture will speak about the need to strategize our actions and experiences in the workplace and/or at school. It is important to learn how to manage, relate and talk to people of different backgrounds in a professional and social manner.
50 Shades of Leadership
Lecturer: Randall Duetsch
A leader can take on several different roles and play several different parts in a functional scheme of a team. This lecture will discuss the several types of leadership positions one can take on, and potentially one understand the kind of leader they want to be..
Panel Discussions
Panel Discussion: 120% rule
Panel Leaders: Caesar Santoy, James Holland, Patrick Johnson
Minorities many times are marginalized an put in categories, typically serving as representatives of their respective identity. More often than not, these individuals must put more than 100% in everything they do in order to be percieved as equal with other (non-minority) individuals doing average work. In the long run, this work ethic will help break negative stigmas, and help provide a positive light of the minority groups "represented". This discussion will also address issues minorities face with getting promoted to a position as long as they are competent; but at some point fail to get promoted beyond a certain point because it has become too challenging for them.
Panel Discussion: “Women in the Workplace”
Panel Leaders: Angela King, Sharon Samuels, Katherine Darnstadt
This panel discussion will first bring like to the career success, each of the leaders have This women led panel discussion will bring awareness to issues that women face in the workforce. Although we have strong women leads in within the field of architecture, a good amount of the time, these women are single and without children. Many women with families reach that “glass ceiling” that they can no longer surpass because of their obligations to being a mother or a wife. Regardless of their qualifications the promotion is often given to someone else.
Panel Discussion: “Making lemonade”- When they tell you, you can’t
Panel Leaders: Jose Pareja, Douglas Layne, Manuel J Hernadez
This panel discussion will talk primary around the well-known quote: “When life throws you lemons, you make lemonade” using what could be considered your fallbacks to your advantage. Negative in, positive out. This panel discussion will also address what students can do during school to use what could have been their fallbacks to their advatage. This facilitated discussion will allow professionals to mentor students through personal experiences and open up opportunities for students to raise awareness of issues they may have encountered within the Illinois School of Architecture.