ASCE Plot Points, a podcast that tells the robust story of civil engineering one civil engineer at a time, is in Season 2 and earlier this week, posted an episode on the topic on advocacy. The main feature was on Guillermo Díaz-Fañas, P.E., M.ASCE, who help start
Qu-AKE: Queer Advocacy and Knowledge Exchange, a non-profit for LGBTQ+ professionals and students working in the built environment. You can listen to this episode here:
https://news.asce.org/asce-plot-points-season-2-episode-7-qu-ake/ Personally, this has been my favorite episode so far - Guillermo turned the adversity has had faced into an opportunity by creating this nonprofit to advocate for and empower LGBTQ+ professionals and students.
Groups like this help with broadening people's perspectives in these well-established engineering cultures.Excited to hear what you all think about the episode (or even Season 2 of the podcast so far)!
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Danielle Schroeder EIT, A.M.ASCE
Associate Engineer
Pennoni Associates
Philadelphia PA
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