Fri 5/17 @ 8:30-10AM
The Greyt Big Talk series is a breakfast talk, given each month by a creative or entrepreneurial person, usually from Cleveland but sometimes from out of town, who shares their insights on how they build their career.
This month’s speaker is a double anomaly in her profession: she’s a Black woman architect, a field in which women were told as recently as 40 years ago they weren’t welcome and whose upper echelons, so heavily based on connections were closed to most African Americans. But she had a trailblazer to follow—in fact, more than one. Both her parents are architects, as were her grandfather and great uncles. Her mother Sandra Madison is currently chairman and CEO of the Cleveland-based firm, the Robert P. Madison International (RPMI), founded by her husband’s father and his brothers. (The firm’s legendary namesake, who retired eight years ago, is now 100 years old.) Maya Madison has only been in the field for ten years, but she’s already made a name for herself for her focus on designing human-friendly residential and commercial spaces. Educated primarily in New York and based in Brooklyn, she’s worked on performing arts centers and skyscrapers as well as projects such as the Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute.
The Grey Big Talks also offer an artisan breakfast and coffee, local original art and music performances and elevator pitches by community members on projects they’re working on. This talk sounds too interesting to need any extras though. It takes place at Karamu House. Get tickets here. Learn more about Maya Madison here.
Cleveland, OH 44106