Advocacy by Design with Pascale Sablan

Pascale Sablan, AIA, is an award winning architect and
mentor in New York City. Pascale seeks excellence and humanity in
all of her projects while providing a resounding voice for the
issues facing women architects and architects of color. She’s
also only the 315th black female architect to obtain licensure in
the US. She has lectured at colleges and universities across the
US, is a 2018 AIA Young Architects Award recipient, a past
president of the New York Coalition of Black Architects (NYCOBA),
and serves on the National Organization of Minority Architects
(NOMA) national board as the Northeast Regional Vice President
and Historian.


Pascale is currently a Senior Associate at S9
Architecture in New York City. Previously she had been an
associate at the New York’s FXFOWLE Architects for more than a
decade. As a member of FXFOWLE’s design team, she contributed to
a number of commercial, cultural, and residential projects in the
U.S., Asia, and the Middle East.


In this episode, Pascale speaks about her career journey
and how she developed her advocacy voice, and shares her candid
thoughts about motherhood and the architecture profession.
Pascale also talks about what she and others at NYCOBA and NOMA
are doing to educate and empower minority architects and inspire
the next generation.