{"id":1131,"date":"2012-10-01T11:40:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinerw.com\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2012-10-01T11:40:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:40:06","slug":"10-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/2012\/10\/01\/10-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where has the time gone? Almost ten years ago, my essay \u201cWhere Are the Architects That Look Like Me?”<\/a> was published. At that time there were only 143 licensed African American women architects. I didn’t think it was a ground breaking essay and I am sure many other women have said the same words. That essay put into words my frustration at not having met or seen any African American women architects until I got to college. I also felt that there was no real sustained effort to increase that number.<\/p>\n

As the tenth anniversary of that publication comes up, I thought certainly there is at least one other African American woman architect in my home area now. Unfortunately that is not the case<\/a>. There may be more in the state of Virginia but none in the central part of the state.
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\nIn my essay, I put a lot of hopes and aspirations on the AIA<\/a> (American Institute of Architects). The organization has a Diversity Intiative<\/a> but others have also stepped up to expose young people to the profession. I have learned about other programs like the NAWIC<\/a> (National Association of Women in Construction) Block Kids program<\/a>. My daughter attended one of their activities. I have participated in NOMA<\/a> (National Organization of Minority Architects) Project Pipeline initiative teaching middle schoolers about architecture during a summer camp. An architect Barbie<\/a> debuted in 2011.<\/p>\n

It is great that the number has doubled in ten years, but it is still not enough for those of us in second and third-tier cities that still want to see an architect who looks like us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where has the time gone? Almost ten years ago, my essay \u201cWhere Are the Architects That Look Like Me?” was published. At that time there were only 143 licensed African […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[16,21,22,23,24,43,62,87,112,119,125],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american-architects","category-women-architects","tag-african-american-architect","tag-architect","tag-architects","tag-architecture","tag-architecture-license","tag-daaa","tag-girl-scouts","tag-noma","tag-the-only-one","tag-virginia","tag-woman-architect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-matic.com\/archive\/katherinerw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}