***I am an AIA Oregon Business Member / Oregon WBE & MBE Certified Firm
~ RE: State of VA: Willfully Blacklisted by Oregon AIA, lead by ZGF - due to State of VA Licensure....
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With over (20) Years Commercial experience, to include leading an International Academic Program abroad, as well as having recently heavily assisted to lead ASID’s Government Affairs last year ~ I fully support State Licensure for Interior Design.
~ As a diverse Global Professional who has grown with differing AEC Certification Systems, and within Collegiate Academics, to include CIDA changes over the years - I fully understand the grave Public responsibility that comes with being a Design Professional with a Commitment to the Profession, and the Health, Safety, & Welfare of the General Public through the continued study of the application of Construction & Building Codes, to be congruent with the use of cutting edge Sustainability Standards. I personally utilize a large variety of Technological and holistic tools, in which to research & create an integrated Design solution ~ which is healthy for both humans and the environment.
~ Oregon does NOT have ANY Interior Design Regulations, and I have dealt with outright hostility from those in the Oregon & PNW - AEC Market, who’ve HATED me for my State of VA Licensure, my established Professional integrity and my Asian Indian Race, which is Low Caste, and ALSO hated in the State of Oregon, historically as per the Ghadar Party Supreme Court Case.
~ Orientalism is entrenched in the PNW history, connected to Oregon’s dirty KKK history, where Nike enthusiasts and White Nationalist Architects participated in a Swatting Crime during the entirety of 2019 - to SILENCE me from Reporting YEARS of State wide Discrimination and severe Acts of Intimidation since Fall 2016, leading to literal Domestic Terrorism and HORRIFIC Human Rights abuses, NOW detailed in the following, and under Review by the Department of Defense:
***DPOR State Registration # 0412000986