CHRISTOPHER HAWTHORNE - KEYNOTE SEPT 30
Cheif Design Officer City Of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office | Los Angeles, CA

Christopher Hawthorne is the Chief Design Officer for the City of Los Angeles in a new role established within Mayor Garcetti’s Office of Economic Development to bring a unified design vision to Los Angeles’ urban landscape. A key part of this effort is ensuring that transformative infrastructure and architectural projects under development today — from housing to parks to transit lines — are inclusive, accessible and cost-effective. Through public programs and other forms of outreach informed by the diversity and dynamism of Los Angeles, Hawthorne is working to foster a broad civic conversation about architecture and urban design across the city. Hawthorne comes to City Hall from the Los Angeles Times, where he served as the architecture critic since 2004. He is also a professor of the practice at Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he has led a wide-ranging dialogue on architecture, urban design, and the city through the framework of his “Third Los Angeles” project.

DAVID BAKER, FAIA - KEYNOTE OCT 1
Principal/Co-Founder David Baker Architects | San Francisco, CA

David Baker founded David Baker Architects in 1982, and in 1996 was selected as Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. He has guided and overseen the design of more than 10,000 homes and is a leader in multifamily urban housing and issues of urban design. DBA has received more than 300 architectural design honors, including six national AIA awards. David was chosen by the AIA California Council as the 2012 Distinguished Practice, and in 2009, David received the Hearthstone Builders Humanitarian Award, honoring the 30 most influential people in the housing industry of the past 30 years.

MARSHA MAYTUM, FAIA LEED-AP - KEYNOTE OCT 1
Principal/Co-Founder Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects | San Francisco, CA

Marsha Maytum FAIA, LEED AP, is a founding Principal at Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects (LMSA) in San Francisco, winner of the 2017 National AIA Architecture Firm Award. For over 35 years Marsha has focused her career on community, cultural, and socially-responsible projects that promote sustainable design. LMSA has received over 150 regional, national and international design awards from organizations including the American Institute of Architects, Urban Land Institute, National Trust for Historic Preservation, U.S. Department of Energy, and U.S. Green Building Council. Ten of the firm’s projects have been named AIA COTE Top Ten Green Projects in the U.S. She is the current 2019 Chair of the National AIA Committee on the Environment Advisory Group and has been the Pietro Belluschi Visiting Professor at the University of Oregon, the Howard A. Friedman Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a visiting professor at the California College of the Arts.

HAKIM OUANSAFI
Executive Director, Hawaiʻi Public Housing Authority

Hakim Ouansafi is the ninth Director of the State of Hawaiʻi Public Housing Authority, one of the largest housing authorities in the United States. He is responsible for over five billion dollars in assets with a yearly budget of over a quarter of a billion dollars for both federal and state housing programs. Hakim is also the founder and served as the President & Chief Executive Officer for First Commercial Consulting Services, Housing, Hotels & Resorts Development Company as well as serving as the President & Chief Executive Officer for Diamond Hotels & Resorts.

KEVIN AUGER
Redevelopment Officer, Hawaiʻi Public Housing Authority

Kevin Auger is the Redevelopment Officer for the Hawaiʻi Public Housing Authority. Kevin is a highly seasoned international real estate professional with well over 30 years of commercial real estate banking, development, capital markets, structured finance, and deal-making experience. He served 15 years in senior executive positions in Asia including Wells Fargo Corporation, in Hong Kong, where he was Managing Director & Group Head of the bank’s Asia Real Estate platform, and 15 years in New York City with JP Morgan Chase, Guardian Life Insurance Company of America; and The Related Companies, one of the largest developers of government-assisted, affordable and workforce housing in the United States. Kevin relocated to Hawaiʻi in 2012 and now devotes his time to public service as the HPHA’s Redevelopment Officer.

KARLA SIERRALTA, ASSOCIATE AIA
Assistant Professor, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Architecture

Karla Sierralta is an architect, educator and design advocate. She is currently an Assistant Professor based at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Architecture. Her professional, theoretical and academic projects address problems of spatial identity in both local and global contexts. Previous to UH, Karla taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology School of Architecture where she served as a Graduate Studio Curator and was Co-President of the Chicago Architectural Club.

BRIAN STRAWN, AIA
Senior Researcher, University of Hawaiʻi Community Design Center

Brian Strawn is a design strategist, service designer, and architect. He is currently a Senior Researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi Community Design Center where he leads teams of students, recent graduates, and external design professionals through public interest design projects for state agencies and UH. Before joining the UHCDC, Brian was a Design Director at an innovation and design consultancy in Chicago.

JONATHAN LEE, AIA
Project Architect/Associate, WCIT Architecture

Jon Lee is a project architect at WCIT Architecture. Jon graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and worked in Philadelphia, New York City, Asia and Australia before making the move back home to Honolulu where he was born and raised. With a background in multidisciplinary design, he is keenly interested in well crafted, immersive environments, which seek innovative and meaningful solutions. At WCIT he has worked on a variety of projects ranging from Waiea at Ward Village and Nohona Hale, a micro-unit rental housing project, to the masterplan of Blaisdell Center and hospitality projects on outer islands.

KEVIN MIYAMURA, AIA LEED-AP
Architect + Partner AMA/AE

Kevin Miyamura is an architect and partner at Honolulu-based architecture practice AMA/AE, whose work centers around an integrated approach to architecture, environment and construction. Kevin was educated and trained in the Pacific Northwest and New York City for nearly twenty years before returning to Honolulu in 2005 to practice, teach, and research. His past and current experience has included collaborating on a range of project types including affordable housing, education and schools, residential, and community projects. He also teaches design theory and studio at the University of Hawaiʻi School of Architecture, and has served as project advisor at the UH Community Design Center and Hawaiʻi Wood Utilization Team

ANDREW NEUMAN
Architect + Partner, AMA/AE

Andrew Neuman is an architect and partner at Honolulu-based architecture practice AMA/AE. From 2016-19 Andrew managed design and construction of Ola Kaʻ Ilima Artspace lofts, affordable housing for artists in Kakaʻako at Urban Works Inc. Andrew graduated with an M.Arch from UBC where he received the RAIC Medal of Excellence in 2012. His work on community-based sustainable infill and ownership solutions was published in Canadian Architect Magazine and won first place in the City of Vancouver’s re:Think Housing competition. He is interested in sustainable, collaborative community development, affordable housing, and finding a thoughtful architectural language within constraints of Hawaiʻi’s construction costs.

VICTORIA HOLT TAKAMINE
Executive Director and Kumu Hula, PAʻI Foundation

Victoria Takamine is a respected kumu hula, cultural advocate, and community organizer. In 2001, Takamine founded the PAʻI Foundation, a nonprofit created to support Native Hawaiian arts and cultures that produces the Maoli Arts Month cultural festival and annual fashion show each year under her direction. She earned a master of arts in theatre, dance and dance ethnology and a bachelor of arts in music both from the University of Hawaiʻi.

MARC ALEXANDER
Executive Director, Office of Housing, City and County of Honolulu

Marc Alexander was born in Sagami, Japan, and raised in Hawaiʻi. Appointed by Mayor Caldwell in 2017, he is the Executive Director of the Office of Housing for the City and County of Honolulu. Prior to this appointment, he served at the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, the Institute for Human Services, the first Hawaiʻi State Governor’s Coordinator on Homelessness, and in administrative and pastoral positions in the Roman Catholic Church in the State of Hawaiʻi.

He holds a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome, and has published and spoken in the fields of public policy, bioethics, and theology.

CAROL FUKUNGA
City Council Member, District 6

Veteran lawmaker Carol Fukunaga has represented urban Honolulu for over 30 years. A veteran of the State Legislature, Fukunaga has been a member of the Honolulu City Council since 2012. She represents Council District 6, which includes portions of Makiki-Punchbowl, Pauoa Valley, Nu‘uanu, Liliha-‘Ālewa Heights, Kalihi Valley, Fort Shafter, Moanalua, ‘Aiea and Halawa Heights, Downtown-Chinatown and parts of Kaka’ako. She currently serves as Chair of the Public Infrastructure, Technology and Sustainability Committee and Vice-Chair of the Executive Matters and Legal Affairs Committee and Business, Economic Development and Tourism Committees. She also serves on Public Safety and Welfare Committee.