Full Name
Erin Agdinaoay, AIA
Company
WPA
Speaker Bio
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Erin Agdinaoay is an Architect and Associate Principal at Work Program Architects. She leads the firm’s hiring process as well as culture and strategy development with the firm’s co-founders. Erin serves the YAF as the 2024 - 2026 Virginia Young Architect Representative and is also one of the winners of the 2023 AIA Virginia Emerging Architect Award. Erin sees pay transparency as a tool to attract and retain diverse talent and believes it’s the practice’s responsibility to properly cultivate the next generation of architects. In 2021, Erin led the creation of WPA’s Summer Internship & Scholarship for Diversity Advancement which has attracted LBGTQIA+ and racially diverse applicants from a dozen universities. Erin is an active member of the Virginia chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and believes the future resiliency of the profession and practice will be led by designers from nontraditional backgrounds. She is a graduate of Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture and Design and is proud to be a second generation Filipino-American.
Erin Agdinaoay is an Architect and Associate Principal at Work Program Architects. She leads the firm’s hiring process as well as culture and strategy development with the firm’s co-founders. Erin serves the YAF as the 2024 - 2026 Virginia Young Architect Representative and is also one of the winners of the 2023 AIA Virginia Emerging Architect Award. Erin sees pay transparency as a tool to attract and retain diverse talent and believes it’s the practice’s responsibility to properly cultivate the next generation of architects. In 2021, Erin led the creation of WPA’s Summer Internship & Scholarship for Diversity Advancement which has attracted LBGTQIA+ and racially diverse applicants from a dozen universities. Erin is an active member of the Virginia chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and believes the future resiliency of the profession and practice will be led by designers from nontraditional backgrounds. She is a graduate of Virginia Tech’s School of Architecture and Design and is proud to be a second generation Filipino-American.
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