Get recognized on the national stage at AIA26 in San Diego.

Join AIA San Diego and AIA National awards staff for an exclusive workshop on the 2026 AIA Awards submission process. This session will walk you through eligibility, submission requirements, and what the judges are looking for.

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Moderated by: Jamie Intervalo, AIA, 2025 Immediate Past President, AIA San Diego

Panelist: Gabrielle Bullock, FAIA, NOMAC, IIDA, LEED AP

Gabrielle Bullock, FAIA, NOMAC, IIDA, LEED AP

Principal and Chief Diversity Officer

Gabrielle oversees Perkins&Will’s Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (J.E.D.I.) approach, which works to support and strengthen a firmwide culture that embraces a diversity of people, colors, creeds, credos, talents, thoughts, and ideas. Her unique role as an award-winning principal and the firm’s Chief Diversity Officer enables her to combine her passion for architecture and social justice to effect positive change at a micro and macro level. Gabrielle is regularly sought out around the world for her leadership and expertise in issues of social equity in architecture.

Gabrielle has been a key player in Perkins&Will’s success for over three decades. She’s worked in both the New York and Los Angeles offices and became the first African American and first woman to rise to the position of Managing Director in the firm. Over the course of her career, she has led numerous complex and high-profile projects, most recently Destination Crenshaw, a project that combines all the elements that Gabrielle believes makes for a successful groundbreaking project.

Gabrielle graduated in 1984 from the Rhode Island School of Design with degrees in fine arts and architecture, becoming the second African American woman in history to earn an architecture degree from that university. In 2014, she was elected by her peers as a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and served on the AIA’s Equity in Architecture Commission. She is a Council member of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) and trustee of the Rhode Island School of Design. She has served on the boards of the Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles, International Interior Design Association (IIDA), the USC Architecture Guild, and the Center for Architecture and Urban Design Los Angeles. She served as the 2018-2019 President of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA). Gabrielle is the recipient of the 2020 AIA Whitney Young Jr award, the 2022 AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal, the 2019 AIA Los Angeles Robert Kennard, FAIA Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity, the 2022 IIDA Star Award and the 2023 Inaugural Paul R. Williams, FAIA “The One Who Dares” Award for her commitment to advancing diversity and social impact in the architecture profession.