I wanted to share a little bit about somebody on my team, Evelyn Lee, who is currently running for a leadership position in the national AIA organization. Evelyn has been working with me for the past four years. I’ve been her manager for the past year or so, and I have just been blown away by the dedication that Evelyn has to both the practice of architecture and the implementation of it in a workplace environment.
She works within our Slack organization and is focused on how we can drive better connection for our people. And that is the overarching focus that she has, is how do we drive connection? And oftentimes that is using physical spaces and thinking about how our physical spaces. Impact our work and impact our people.
I’ve seen this play out over the last four years as a peer, originally watching how she applied her practice to the workplace at Slack, helping to drive incredible experiences in the offices that we operated. And then after our acquisition that’s around the time Evelyn moved over into my team.
She’s been doing all of this work within the context of Salesforce overall. She is somebody who takes a passion to her work. She takes a level of care and practice that you rarely get to see in people you work with. So it’s a joy to work with and I am sharing all of this cuz I’m just so impressed that on top of all the incredible work she does for Slack and Salesforce, she is running for this leadership position as First Vice President in 2024, President in 2025 of the AIA.
I think it’s incredible. I wish her all the best in this endeavor and I’m just so proud to work with somebody who is able to apply the passion that she has for the practice of architecture at work, but also spend so much energy on the actual professional association driving this practice forward. Especially at the time that we’re in right now, where so much is changing in regards to how we interact with the space around us.
Evelyn, I wish you the best. I’m really proud and excited about all this work that you’re doing, and I can’t wait to see the impacts that you make.