Tag: Roy Sealey program speaker

Lynnelle Bryant is a Certified Interior Designer and design principal with over 35 years’ experience in architecture, interiors, and construction of commercial, multi-family residential, education and hospitality projects.  She spent 13 years in Farmers Insurance Group’s Real Estate and Facilities Planning department where she managed design and production teams, overseeing construction renovations and tenant improvements, the purchase and procurement of FF&E for all owned and leased locations throughout the nation primarily in office design. Farmer’s eventually became a Masbuild client.

Over the last twenty years her projects have included commercial brands such as Hilton’s Embassy Suites Hotels, Johnny Rockets, and public entities such LAUSD, PUSD, LACCD. But more recently her emphasis has included publicly funded supportive housing working with notable developers such as Decro Group, LOMCO, Bridge Housing, EAH Housing, and Volunteers of America on projects for specialized populations such as formerly homeless, transitional housing, senior housing and special needs housing.

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In addition to the running the day to day business of Masbuild, Ms. Bryant manages the Interior Design efforts for projects overseeing plan development through installation including post completion warranty reviews.

She joined Masbuild in 2003 and was appointed its CEO in 2007. 

President, Gathers Strategies, Inc.

Creator & Host, CivitasLA

Founded in 2008, Gathers Strategies provides strategic business development, government and community relations advisory services. Gathers Strategies has supported the business and economic development goals and objectives and guided the government and community relations strategies of a wide variety of clients, including businesses, non-profits, and foreign governments.

Prior to founding Gathers Strategies, Dwayne served at the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), and has worked for the U.S. Dept of Housing & Urban Development; the U.S. State Department; and served as the first-ever Director of the State of California’s Office of Trade and Investment, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Active in economic development across the LA region over the past two decades, Dwayne has served the City of Los Angeles in several ways, including as a Commissioner on the Board of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA/LA), served on the City’s Business Tax Advisory Committee; the Workforce Investment Board; the Small Business Advisory Committee; and on the Mayor’s Global Export Council.  Dwayne is a graduate of the Leadership Southern California Class of 2007.

Civically engaged, Dwayne is Immediate Past Chair of the Board of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce; Past President of the Board of Trustees of Hollywood United Methodist Church; and served on the Executive Committee of the LAEDC. Dwayne is also creator and host of a bi-weekly podcast, CivitasLA, the features diverse and emerging civic entrepreneurs across the greater LA region. A New Yorker, Dwayne is a graduate of Dartmouth College with a degree in Economics.

Maria Setaro is a Sr. Job Captain at Studio One Eleven focusing primarily on
affordable housing and community-centered projects. Joining Studio One Eleven’s
team in 2019, Maria brings extensive experience in senior housing with an emphasis
on typologies including universal design, low-density residential, market rate, mixeduse,
and transit-oriented-development (TOD) residential.
Her most recent work as a Sr. Job Captain includes the affordable and modular
housing projects: Vanowen Apartments, Oatsie’s Place, and McDaniel House from
SD – CA phases. All three projects consist of a combination of off-site construction
via light-gauge steel modular units, and on-site building construction. Team leading
and coordination is a skill Maria has further developed while coordinating multiple
construction efforts simultaneously, keeping design-intent, sustainability needs,
project schedules, and project budgets on mind.
Maria is an open communicator, passionate, and understands the importance of
mentorship and team building in all aspects of the profession. This is reflected in
both her projects and the different committees and mentorship organizations she is
involved with outside of work.
Having being born in Venezuela, raised in Miami, FL, and studied Architecture in
DTLA, Maria understands the need for multi-generational, diverse, and inclusive
communities in Southern California. She embodies this in her outreach with
underrepresented communities that works to diversify and bring awareness to the
the AEC industry for students from Middle School to College ages.
Maria received her Bachelor of Architecture from SCI-Arc in 2013 and is currently
pursuing her architecture license in the state of California.

Architect and historian Alan Hess is author of twenty-one books on Modern architecture and urbanism in the twentieth century, His subjects include John Lautner, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as the Ranch House, Las Vegas, and Palm Springs. He is a Commissioner on the California State Historical Resources Commission, and serves on the boards of Preserve Orange County and Palm Springs Modernism Week. 

He has been the architecture critic of the San Jose Mercury News, a contributor to The Architects Newspaper, a grant recipient from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Clarence Stein Foundation, and a National Arts Journalism Fellow. 

He has helped to conserve buildings from the Modern era, including CBS Television City (Pereira & Luckman, architect), Bullock’s Pasadena (Wurdeman & Becket, architect), Norm’s La Cienega Coffee Shop (Armét and Davis, architect), and the oldest remaining McDonald’s stand (Stanley Meston, architect.) Awards for his work conserving Modern architecture include the Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Docomomo/US’sAward of Excellence, and the President’s Award from the Los Angeles Conservancy. His latest book, “Googie Modern: Architectural Drawings of Armet Davis Newlove,” is being published this month by Angel City Press. He is currently writing a history of Modern Architecture in California.