Big City Forum

March 3, 2009 - 5:12 p.m. - Echo Park, CA

I'm a member of Los Angeles do-good organization, Big City Forum, a "project designed to push forth a creative cities agenda." For the second gathering, we met at the Echo Park Film Center to meet and greet other members and to converse with LA-based architects, Stephanie Smith of Ecoshack, and Jenna Didier and Oliver Hess of Materials & Applications.  It was a pleasure for me to meet Stephanie offline and to catch up with Jenna after a near decade lapse of correspondence. The architects walked us through their life's work and shared their experiences of building and creating in the City of Angels. After the insightful presentations, the floor was open to everyone and the community shared their two cents. Discussions of how we could help one another moving forward seemed really sincere and exciting!

I'm proud to be a part of a community so invested in Los Angeles. And I'm grateful to Leonardo for the opportunity. Thanks, all!