SAH WiA AG 13th Meeting of the Council | December 11, 2025
Meeting Agenda with Comments
SAH WiA AG Council | Designations: Co-Chairs: Valeria Casali, Anat Falbel, Harriet Harriss, Kateryna Malaia, Carmen Popescu, Mara Sánchez Llorens, Ashley Simone, Associate Co-Chairs: Ola Uduku, Ruo Jia, Advising Chair: Anna Sokolina, Chair of Registers Committee: Barbara Ann Opar, Leadership Outreach: Maristella Casciato, Special Events: Sarah Bonnemaison, Shelley E. Roff, Web News Editor: Yan Wencheng, Communications Lead: Stavroula Michael, Marianna Charitonidou, Elisa Dainese.
SAH WiA AG Registers Committee | Designations: Chair: Barbara Ann Opar; Members: Alicia Imperiale, Gillian Mahoney, Laura Sánchez Carrasco, Shelley E. Roff, Nina Stritzler-Levine, Margaret B. Vickery, Advising Members: Anna Sokolina, Alexandra Staub.
SAH WiA AG Legacy Committee | Designations: Chair: Anna Sokolina, Members: Esra Akcan; Jelena Bogdanovic, Sigal Davidi, Mary Anne Hunting, Kiwa Matsushita, Mari Nakahara, Katherine Kaford Papineau, Shelley E. Roff, Rebecca Siefert, Atsuko Tanaka, Julie Willis, Advising Members: Eva M. Alvarez, Carlos J. Gomez, Carmen Espegel, Diane Elliott Gayer, Liz Martin-Malikian, Thaisa Way.
1. Opening and Organization
Moderator: Anat Falbel
1.1. 13th Meeting of SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group Council
Guidelines and Welcome – Anna Sokolina
1/ Welcome and individual introductions; 2/ Personal assignments and designations; 3/ Discussion of planned events and programs.
Objectives: To finalize the transition of structural organization, recognize leaders whose term ended this year, and discuss plans and projects.
Gratitude: To All for commitment, to Anat Falbel for organizing this meeting, to Maristella Casciato, Carmen Espegel, Anat Geva, and Anna Sokolina for nomination of incoming co-chairs, to SAH Staff for attentive communications and support; to outstanding members of the Council whose term ended this year: Anat Geva, Priya Jain, Rebecca Siefert.
1.2. Individual introductions of new members of SAH WiA AG Council
Co-Chairs: Valeria Casali, Anat Falbel, Harriet Harriss, Kateryna Malaia, Carmen Popescu, Mara Sánchez Llorens, Ashley Simone, Associate Co-Chair: Ruo Jia, Special Events: Sarah Bonnemaison, Shelley Roff
Discussion: Valeria Casali, Anat Falbel, Harriet Harriss, Kateryna Malaia, Anna Sokolina, Ruo Jia, Sarah Bonnemaison, Shelley Roff
– Harriet Harriss – Heading Global Network Initiative | visit SAH + SAH WiA AG Bylaws for guidelines and secure use of group individual members directory.
– Kateryna Malaia – WiA Group sessions and meetings at SAH Conferences, submissions for publication in SAH Opportunities, Administering Group website and forum, Group listserv announcements, communications with the SAH Staff.
– Valeria Casali – Spearhead Communications Team, use LinkTree https://linktr.ee/sahwiaag and create contents for publication across all SAH WiA AG platforms, in collaboration with Yan Wencheng (Instagram), Stavroula Michael (Facebook, LinkedIn), Kateryna Malaia (SAH Commons Group Forum and Site), Kateryna Malaia, Anna Sokolina (SAH Commons Site).
– Sarah Bonnemaison, Shelley E. Roff – SAH WiA AG Virtual Program, SAH Google platform for Affiliate Groups
– Ruo Jia – according to further communications
2. Leadership designations
Moderators: Anat Falbel, Anna Sokolina
2.1. Group Leadership Meetings: Moderators, Agenda, Contents, Feedback, Follow-up
SAH WiA AG 10 Programs, Semi-Annual Reports, Bylaws, Logo
Discussion.
– Anat Falbel – SAH WIA AG Leaders Meetings Moderator, Schedule, Tech Organization, Contents, Agendas; SAH WiA AG Address access/communications sahwiaag@gmail.com
Needed: To reach out to Rebecca Siefert for initial access.
– Sarah Bonnemaison, Anat Falbel, Kateryna Malaia – assess to SAH Google platform for affiliate groups
2.2. SAH Membership and SAH WiA AG membership: Through SAH website and WiA Group members’ page
Needed: Headshots – for posting in SAH WiA AG Council: All please email to K. Malaia or A. Sokolina
SAH WiA AG Online Registration: Members – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group – SAH Commons
2.3. SAH Conferences: 2026 in person and virtual; 2027 in person
/ Organization and Calls for sessions supported and endorsed by SAH WiA AG at SAH Conferences.
– submit to SAH Opportunities: CALL FOR SESSIONS supported by SAH WiA AG | sahwiaag@gmail.com | monitor Council feedback | communications | promo – Kateryna Malaia; Mara Sánchez Llorens
/ Group meetings at SAH Conferences – with Christopher Kirbabas, SAH Director of Programs
Discussion.
Kateryna Malaia – Submissions for publication in SAH Opportunities
Kateryna Malaia, Mara Sánchez Llorens – Group meetings at SAH in-person conferences
2.4. SAH Connects Virtual Program – SAH WiA AG Calls, Reviews, Submission of sessions proposals – OPEN
2.5. Access to SAH Membership Reports to group directory for creating Group Listserv: composing letters, and other contents of essence, for distribution to WiA Group members – Kateryna Malaia
2.6. Communications/administration team members to head SAH WiA media pages across 5 platforms
Contents leadership: Linktree https://linktr.ee/sahwiaag – Valeria Casali, Kateryna Malaia, Stavroula Michael, Yan Wencheng
Executive Administration/Chair of Communications/Media team, dissemination of news – to follow up.
Discussion.
– Question to consider: 1/set access limited to administrators, or 2/open to all who want to publish their news across Group platforms?
– Admin/Editors: to design/publish contents on SAH Commons platform SAH Women in Architecture AG (hcommons.org) – Valeria Casali, Anna Sokolina
– HC Members – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group – SAH Commons – as above
– LinkedIn SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group: Overview | LinkedIn – Stavroula Michael
– Facebook SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group – Stavroula Michael
– Instagram www.instagram.com/sahwiaag – Yan Wencheng
– X SAH WiA AG (@SAHWiAag) / X – OPEN
– SAH WiA AG Address access/communications: sahwiaag@gmail.com – Anat Falbel, Kateryna Malaia
– SAH main affiliate group site: SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group – SAH Staff
3. Annual Program March 2026: Celebrating Women’s History Month
3.1. Program highlights: Anna Sokolina, Sarah Bonnemaison
Annual celebration of Women’s History Month is the SAH WIA AG staple program, and the International Women’s Day, March 8, is a focal point, a contribution to SAH WiA community, and the SAH mission.
3.2. Program promo assignments: Logo, Program, Leaflet, webpage, greeting letter to group members,
– Submission for post in SAH Opportunities – with review by members of WiA Group Council – Kateryna Malaia
– Publication and distribution via group listserv – Kateryna Malaia
– Coordination across Group’s media platforms – Valeria Casali, Yan Wencheng, Stavroula Michael, Kateryna Malaia
3.3. Special Events: Sarah Bonnemaison, Shelley E. Roff
Working title: Online WiA conversations about significant books published books in 2025.
Schedule: 5-minute intro, 50 minutes each conversation with a 10-minute break in between.
MARCH 10 – 11, 2026 Timetable
Sarah Bonnemaison, France March 10, 9-11pm
(1) Architecture and Feminist Critical Theory
Hilde Heynen, Belgium March 10, 9-11pm
Lucia C. Perez-Moreno, Spain March 10, 9-11pm
(2) Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia to Women in Architecture
Karen Burns, Melbourne March 11, 7-9am
Lori A. Brown, Syracuse March 10, 3-5pm
Discussion: Approved, one day or two days of virtual programs. Other opportunities.
4. SAH WiA AG Committees
4.1. Registers Committee REGISTERS COMMITEE – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group — Barbara Ann Opar
SAH Women in Architecture Bibliography, an ongoing project spearheaded and authored by Barbara Opar, SAH WiA AG Registers Chair. NO DEADLINE. First edition HERE.
SAH Women in Architecture Oral Histories— Conversations to feature noted SAH members – OPEN.
4.2. Legacy Committee LEGACY COMMITTEE – SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group — Anna Sokolina
Archive, Virtual Events, Conversations, Book Talks.
SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group Archive at IAWA SAH Women in Architecture Affiliate Group Archive. Compiled by Anna Sokolina / reviewed by WiA Council / submitted: 20 folders containing 385 files. Accessioned in 2025 by Jade Snelling, IAWA Collections Archivist, Special Collections, Virginia Tech University Libraries.
Discussion: Approved.
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