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Laura Morton Senior Associate SSOE Group Atlanta, GA
lmorton@ssoe.com
Laura Morton, AIA, is a Senior Associate at SSOE Group, working as a Project Architect and Project Man- ager on a variety of urban mixed-use developments and adaptive reuse projects. She has a passion for serving her fellow architects and dedicates her time to AIA at multiple levels within the organization. In AIA Atlanta, she served as a Communication Director, then advanced to the Executive Committee and is currently serving as Secretary. Concurrently, she is the Young Architect’s Representative for AIA Geor- gia, collaborating with her counterparts around the country to advocate and develop programming for those architects licensed ten years or less. Outside of her elected AIA position responsibilities, AIA Georgia provided the opportunity to bolster her leadership skills by participating in the inaugural class of the Christopher Kelley Leadership Develop- ment Program in 2019, which was followed by serving on the Advisory Board for the CKLDP 2020 and 2021 classes. She also engages in several local organizations, such as Discover Architecture, Equity in Architecture, and ULI/WLI, as well as serves on the Historic Preservation & Land Use committee in her Atlanta neighborhood of Cabbagetown. In her firm, she is a member of the “Culture Committee” which paved the way for a dedicated DEI Leader to be hired at SSOE, as well as establish Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for women, minority, and LGBTQIA+ employees. Gaining insight from the ElevateHER experience, Laura plans to develop an ERG to address career development for junior designers and architects/engineers within the company, fur- ther building upon the mentorship and tutoring she has provided to colleagues in years past.
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