Breakfast w/ Linda Dishman

AIA|LA City Leaders Breakfast Reception with Linda Dishman – President & CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy

2019 City Leaders Breakfast Series Presented By: Psomas

The 2019 AIA|LA City Leaders Breakfast Series serves as an opportunity for architects & designers and other community stakeholders to meet directly with key individuals transforming Los Angeles in a roundtable setting to discuss innovative ideas that will ensure a healthy, sustainable and economically competitive future.

Linda Dishman – President & CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy

Linda Dishman is President and CEO of Los Angeles Conservancy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the recognition, preservation, and revitalization of the historic architectural and cultural resources of Los Angeles County. At the helm since 1992, Linda has expanded the Conservancy’s reach exponentially, increasing its budget fivefold and more than doubling its membership. Today, Los Angeles Conservancy has the largest membership of a local preservation organization in the country and has become a driving force for preservation in Greater Los Angeles—finding solutions to save threatened historic structures, fostering stronger preservation laws and incentives, raising awareness of the region’s unique architectural treasures, and empowering people to take an active role in preserving their shared, tangible history.

Before joining the Conservancy, Linda served as an architectural historian with the National Park Service, worked as a senior planner for the City of Pasadena, and worked with California’s State Office of Historic Preservation. She is on the Board of Advisors for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and has previously served as chair of its Statewide and Local Partners. She has also served on boards of the California Preservation Foundation and the Southern California Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians.

2019 Breakfast Receptions:
February 22 (8am) – Tunua Thrash-Ntuk – Executive Director, Los Angeles Local Initiatives Support Corporation
March 8 (8am) – Maria S. Salinas – President & CEO, LOS ANGELES AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
March 21 (8am) – Samantha Millman – President, Los Angeles City Planning Commission
April 5 (8am) – Roxana Tynan – Executive Director, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
April 26 (8am) – Julia Turner – Deputy Managing Editor, Arts & Entertainment, LA TIMES
April 26 (12pm) – Kate Gordon – Director, Governor’s Office of Planning and Research & & Senior Advisor to the Governor on Climate
May 31 – Monique King-Viehland – Executive Director, Community Development Commission and Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles
August 2 – Karen Mack – CEO, LA Commons
August 22 (8am) – Rep. Jimmy Gomez – U.S. House of Representatives, 34th District
September 20 (8am) – Ziba Ghassemi, AIA – Vice President of Design – Airports, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield
October 3 (8am) – María Elena Durazo – State Senator Twenty-Fourth District, California
October 22 (8am) – Wendy Carrillo – Assemblymember, State of California, District 51
November 14 (8am) – Linda Dishman – President & CEO, Los Angeles Conservancy
December 6 (8am) – Dana Goodyear – Staff Writer, The New Yorker
December 12 (8am) – Christina Lee – Vice President, Trammel Crow Company

PHOTO CREDIT:  Shari Belafonte

2019 City Leaders Breakfast Series Presented By: