London & South East Chair, NAWIC UK; Ireland Director and Co-founder, Atelier EURA
An EDI advocate through practice and volunteering, Cristina is one of the Founding Signatories of the new RIBA's Inclusion Charter which proposes a cultural change to break down barriers and make architecture more inclusive.
Regional Chair for the National Association of Women in Construction, Cristina is a Mentor at the pan-professional Fluid Mentoring since 2013, and since the start of 2017, a member of RIBA’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Advisory Group (and Mayor of London's Design Advocate Organisation), Architects For Change.
Throughout her twenty years career in the UK, Cristina, a Chartered Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), has seen the best projects emerge when the people sitting around the table, both at the office and on-site, reflected the diversity of the communities they were shaping and hence the desire to engage a wider audience with her work.
Cristina sees the lack of awareness of what the Built Environment encompasses and how it affects our everyday lives as one of the fundamental reasons behind the industry's leaky talent pipeline and is determined to address this by using the various platforms she is part of to highlight the contributions of individuals and collectives while promoting the industry's core values of collaboration, innovation, positive outcome, and sustainability.
AIA UK - Insights from Grassroots initiatives - Current and Future Patterns of Change
