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PWC Boston Chapter is excited to host our 3rd Annual Awards Celebration recognizing the AEC professionals who personify our mission of supporting, advancing, connecting women, and promoting diversity in the AEC industry. The Awards Celebration will take place on October 17, 2024, at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter in Boston, with dinner and refreshments! Join us for an evening of networking, inspiration and recognition!

Early Bird Tickets
Members: $150
Non-members: $200

Ticket prices will increase to $250 for both Member and Non-Member tickets Monday September 30. Registration closes Wednesday, October 10, 2023. Tickets are non-refundable, however, a ticket can be transferred or donated to another attendee.
Advanced tickets are required. Walk-ins will not be permitted.

Keynote Speaker:

Diana Fernandez Bibeau PLA, ASLA | LinkedIn

As Deputy Chief of Urban Design with the Boston Planning & Development Agency, Diana elevates the importance of urban design, and champions the transformative power of sustainable and walkable communities for all ages and abilities. In partnership with Chief Jemison and the Boston Planning Department’s Urban Design Division, Diana works to strategically transform existing urban design processes to promote predictability and quality for both the community members and the development industry. With over a decade of private practice experience, Diana has built a design portfolio that reassesses the policies that have perpetuated race, gender, environmental and socioeconomic inequality, and created design methodologies that can respond to and correct them. As part of her work, Diana partners on the Mayor's Green New Deal agenda with the City departments, including the Boston Transportation Department, the Environment Department, Parks, Office of Housing, Public Works, Public Facilities, Boston Public Schools, and Boston Public Libraries, to align urban design efforts into a comprehensive vision for Boston.

Diana is a proven thinker, collaborator and leader, who teams effortlessly with architects, planners, urban designers, ecologists and civil engineers on the design of equitable and sustainable places. Her experience spans a broad range of projects from planning to built work.

Diana provides critical thought and design leadership for the landscape and planning practice. She brings to each project strong critical thinking, a willingness to engage in thoughtful debate, and a commitment to quality. She leads and champions better equity and inclusion in our planning and built design practices from a landscape perspective. She writes and lectures in the discourses of landscape architecture, urban design, and equity.

Prior to joining the Boston Planning & Development Agency, Diana was a senior associate/landscape architect with Sasaki for over 7 years  and took her first steps in the profession as a landscape designer with Sikora Wells Appel. 

Diana holds a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Template University. Diana’s time at Temple University set the stage for a career to be marked by ambition, excellence and achievement. While studying at Temple Diana served as a member of the Landscape Architecture and Horticulture Society and as its president from 2010 to 2012. Upon graduating, she received a coveted Campus Leadership Award - an acknowledgement of leadership at the university level. While completing her degree, Diana received four American Society of Landscape Architect (ASLA) student awards, including a 2011 ASLA Student Honor Award in the Analysis and Planning Category and, as mentioned, the 2013 ASLA Student Award of Excellence Communications Category for “Above Below Beyond,” an exhibition of student design work she created with fellow Temple alumnus Amy Syverson and University of Pennsylvania graduate Susan Kolber. Following on their work, plans for the Viaduct Rail Park caught fire, a first phase eventually being supported by a $3.5 million state grant. 

In 2020, Diana received the ASLA’s first-ever Emerging Professionals Medal acknowledging her embodiment of the best of the profession and as a role model for young professionals everywhere and a unique voice for women and practitioners of color.