Building Your Career in a Changing Industry Webinar
Wednesday, June 26th – 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
In this webinar, Katie Rispoli Keaotamai, CEO of Ticco will dive into the forms of career development that are available to today’s up-and-coming professionals who work with the built environment. Through a conversational format, Katie will provide an overview of the ways that these early-career professionals enhance their careers, and will compare and contrast the experiences of preservationists with their peers in intersecting practices. Katie will offer insight for preservation practitioners to understand their unique position and build a foundation for a successful career in the midst of a continually changing profession and movement.
Speaker
Katie Rispoli Keaotamai
Katie Rispoli Keaotamai is the Founder and CEO of Ticco. Katie has spent the last seven years completing work that intersects with construction, historic preservation, urban planning, and placemaking. She is most well known for her work in construction management, having planned and overseen the relocation of the world’s first Taco Bell as well as a number of other public and residential buildings. Prior to becoming CEO of Ticco, Katie served as Executive Director of We Are the Next where she provided programs that introduced teens and young adults to cities and the built environment. She holds a BA in Art History from California State University, Long Beach and a Master of Heritage Conservation from the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California.
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Young Ohio Preservationists
Update 3/1/2016: The Young Ohio Preservationists have become a reality and are located at youngohiopreservationists.org!
One of my absolute favorite blogs is Preservation in Pink, so I found her post a few weeks back about young preservationists especially interesting. As you may be aware, Heritage Ohio has been active in working to help build a Young Ohio Preservationist movement, from developing a survey to get feedback about how 20-40 year old self-identified preservationists view themselves shaping preservation in Ohio, to holding one-on-one stakeholder interviews, to holding introductory planning meetings in Columbus this past January.
As the PiP author expresses in her blog post, preservationists in leadership positions have done a better job in recent years of actively engaging people under 40 to help shape the preservation movement. Although some bristle at the notion that a “Young Preservationist” appellation is even needed, preferring instead to seamlessly mesh with the rest of the preservation world, the concept of giving young preservationists special status within the preservation world has taken hold. A lot of Old Preservationists (myself included) are excited by the prospect of fresh ideas, and new ways of looking at (and saving) old buildings that young preservationists can bring to the table.
What do you think? Is there a place in the preservation world for groups of a specific age range?