Member Voices
SMPS invites members to share their experiences and perspectives to our community’s conversations on racism and its impact on our personal and professional settings.
If you’d like to share your story, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out to SMPS Content Manager, Linda Smolkin, at linda@smps.org if you’d like to contribute.
A Different Kind of Pride
What I love about Pride Month is that it’s always evolving. Each year it becomes more inclusive and less about one thing, but more holistic and centered around the individual.
How Being Filipino Has Kept Me Humble
When I was in college, one of my friends told me I was a coconut—brown on the outside but white on the inside. Like me, she was also Filipina and
Go Where You’re Wanted
My varied, professional career within the A/E/C industries has spanned almost 25 years, yet only recent times have shaped how I view my role within. Upon enrolling in architecture school
Being the Only Dot of Diversity
In the fall of 1967, I was bussed from the projects in Gary, IN, to a better (all-white) school several miles away in the suburbs. I was devastated—and afraid. I’d
