Recent Speaking Engagements
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“Cost Analysis for Concept Planning,” Board of Trustees, San Antonio Museum of Art, March 2025.
“Cost Considerations for Project Planning,” Board of Trustees, San Antonio Museum of Art, September 2024.
“Museums and their Architecture,” Mint Museum of Art, October 2023.
“Targeted Strategic Planning,” Board of Trustees, Mint Museum of Art, May 2019.
“Museum Architecture 101,” Arkansas Arts Center Distinguished Speaker, Little Rock. 2016.
“Arts as Community Catalysts,” Keynote Speaker, Burning Man Global Leadership Conference, San Francisco. 2015.
“Playing by the Numbers – Planning A Project and Getting It Right From the Start,” Speaker, Western Museum Association Conference – with Marjorie Schwarzer, Professor at USF, Las Vegas, NV. 2014.
“Project Management for Museums,” Guest Lecturer, USF Graduate Museum Studies program, San Francisco. 2014.
Cultural Preservation in Watts, planning charette organized to address cultural preservation and arts engagement in Watts. 2013.
First South Charette, Team Leader for a planning charette for an art and design district in Birmingham, Alabama. 2013.
“Envisioning New Public Engagement,” Workshop Facilitator for the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development’s arts planning charette organized by OMA/AMO for Central Market, San Francisco. 2012.
“Arts as a Community Revitalization Strategy,” Speaker and Panel Moderator, National Symposium of Arts/Cultural/Entertainment Districts held in conjunction with the Main Streets Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, & sponsored by the Short North Arts District, April 2012.
“Planning the Museum in the Park,” College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, 2011.
“Museums and their Architecture,” Vancouver Art Gallery, Architect Selection Committee, Board of Directors, 2011.
“Museums and Our Urban Future,” Building Museums Symposium, Mid-Atlantic Museum Association, 2011.
Arts Facilities & Economic Development Symposium, TEDP/LISC, “Natural Cultural Districts,” 2010.
Harvard University GSD, Urban Futures Symposium, “Arts & Social Impact,” 2010.
JFK University, Graduate Studies, Guest Lecturer, “Architecture, Museums & Our Urban Future,” 2010.
Architecture and the City Festival, AIA San Francisco, “Mint Project,” 2010.
USF, Arts Administration, Guest Lecturer, “Arts and Urban Development,” 2010.
USF, Museum Studies Program Guest Lecturer, “Architecture, Museums & Our Urban Future,” 2010.
CREW Conference San Francisco, “Museums of Tomorrow Learning Excursion,” 2010.
International Facility Management Administrators Conference, San Francisco, “Project Planning,” 2010.
2010 Building Museums Symposium, Mid-Atlantic Museum Association, “Modeling Sustainability,” 2010.
Architecture and the City Festival, AIA SF, “Museums of Tomorrow”, 2009.
San Francisco Planning and Urban Research, “Mint Project Tour & Presentation,” 2009.
City of Tel Aviv 100th Centennial Conference, “Cultural Projects for an Urban Future” 2009.
Institute for Global Leadership Symposium, Tufts University, “Cultural Projects for Urban Regeneration” 2009.
AIA National Conference, San Francisco, “The Old Mint” tour and presentations, 2009.
University of California, Berkeley, Landscape, Architecture & Environmental Planning, “Project Management,” 2008.