Driving the Narrative: Women in Architecture | Karen Braitmayer

Welcome to ‘Driving the Narrative: Women in Architecture’ a podcast by SB Architects. This series will narrate honest conversations with women in design and delve deeper into what it means to be a woman in architecture.  Jeanette Hoffman, Associate at SB Architects, will be your host. We're extremely excited to introduce you to this incredible series, where we have the honor of chatting with some of the biggest and best names in the business.  Today’s guest is Karen Braitmayer, Principal and APAC-BE, ICC Accessibility Inspector/Plans Examiner at Studio Pacifica. Karen Braitmayer, a disabled architect, and advocate for accessibility and civil rights for people with disabilities, brings her unique life experiences to Studio Pacifica, the Seattle‐based practice she founded in 1993.  The accessibility consulting firm has been recognized regionally and nationally for its focus on universal design, and social sustainability, and for finding creative ways to meet (or exceed) building codes that serve to give people with disabilities access to the greater world.  Karen’s focus on accessibility and civil rights for people with disabilities is reflected in her national and regional advocacy efforts. In 2010, she was appointed by President Barack Obama to the United States Access Board, a volunteer policy appointment she continues to hold today. Show Notes/Links:Studio PacificaInstagramLinkedInDesigner’s reading list on Disability and Design:Disability Pride Demystifying Disability: What to know, What to say and how to be an Ally by Emily LadauDisability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice WongBeing Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judy HeumannSitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig Intersection of Disability and DesignBuilding Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Aimi HamraieAccessible America by Bess WilliamsonWhat Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World by Sara HendrenDesign Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-ChockMismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.