Zinayda Reyes – Speak Your Mind: Building Aware, Collaborative Workplace Culture for Every Kind of Mind Description

October 2, 2026

AIA | LA POWERFUL XIII: OUT LOUD!

  • Los Angeles‚ CA

7:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

The Colburn School

200 S. Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Speakers

Zinayda Reyes, Senior Project Manager, KTGY
Tina Shen, Project Manager, HMC Architects
Ben Loescher, Founding Principal, Terrain
Esther Alva, Associate, Project Architect, KAA Design (Moderator)
Summer Varde, Founder, Scattered Creaties (Workshop Facilitator)

Description

Naming what’s true is often the hardest and most powerful step toward change. This session explores neurodiversity in the workplace: how different brains show up, work, and lead, and what it takes for traditional work culture to evolve toward ease, retention, and work that’s genuinely good, for people and projects. Through stories from professionals in our industry and a hands on exercise, you’ll build language for advocacy, for allyship, and meaningful change.

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