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Speaker

Emily Pilloton-Lam

Emily Pilloton-Lam

Founder and Executive Director/Author
Girls Garage

Emily Pilloton-Lam is the Founder and Executive Director of the nonprofit Girls Garage. A designer, builder, educator and author, she has taught thousands of young girls and gender-expansive youth how to use power tools, weld and build projects for their communities. She has presented her work and ideas on the TED stage twice (3.8 million views and counting!), The Colbert Report, CNN, The Today Show, and in the documentary film If You Build It. She is the author of three books about the power of community-based architecture and has shared her story and the stories of her students on stages and venues worldwide for the past two decades. Emily has taught as Adjunct Faculty in the Architecture and Sustainable Design departments at Stanford University, UC Berkeley and UC Davis, and lives with her family, human and canine, in Berkeley, California. 

Session

Keynote: Building the Next Generation

Who builds our world? How is it getting built? What is being built? And why? These are the questions that Emily Pilloton-Lam has spent a lifetime asking herself and the world around her as she thinks about recruiting the next generation to the trades. Drawing from her experience as the founder and executive director of Girls Garage, a nonprofit design and construction school for girls and gender expansive youth, she provides rich stories and keen insights reminding us all that a more just, equitable, and empowered world is within our grasp.   

Keynote Speaker Sponsored by NGA Workforce Development

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