Prior to coming to work for Giroux Glass, I had never stepped foot inside Los Angeles’ City Hall. In the past six months, I’ve been there three times, each time for a wonderful cause related to either city planning or a women’s organization. Most recently, it was to support the women responsible for having the City and our mayor, Eric Garcetti, officially proclaim “Women’s Entrepreneurship Day” (WED) an officially recognized day. I was invited to be the guest of NAWIC (National Association of Women in Construction) Los Angeles president, Priscilla Chavez, to attend a breakfast and the city council meeting [...]

It’s with great pride that I can say that I am now officially a director on the board of an amazing group – the Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC).  As a sixty-four-year old national organization, its vision is and has been to enhance the success of women in the construction industry. This is a much-needed and admirable goal, given that despite industry labor shortages, women comprise just 9% of the construction labor force.  Increasing that percentage to what it could or should be — 50% — could arguably solve the problem on its [...]